What about you! Robbie from Premier, Lawns lawn care company based in Belfast Northern Ireland.
Today I'm going to show you how to boost your lawn with this one thing - so stick around . . . .
So welcome back. This is a series of videos on ugly lawns and how we're going to turn an ugly
lawn that's full of weed grasses into really good lawn, with step-by-step instructions.
In the last video we filmed here, I mowed the lawn for the first time after installing the new lawn
and I said that I wasn't happy with how thick the lawn was. So we aerated it, and it, and then
we over seeded it. Now a lot of you guys asked me in the comments, does throwing grass seed
down just on on plain soil work, so I'm going to show you the results from that now, and why we aerate
and how this and how the seed germinates.
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If you look closely you can see the new grass that's grown out of the aeration
holes. Whenever you aerate the lawn and then you seed into it, the seed that finds its way
down in there acts as little plant pots and it gives the the seed somewhere safe to grow.
Right guys - so the two products we're going to use today, we're going to use the seaweed now
i've talked about this endlessly in the past so i'm not going to cover too much on the seaweed
today but this is really good for your lawn for liquid feeds. Brilliant stuff. What we're going to use
today is is this stuff here, humic acid. Now this isn't a fertilizer, it's not going to make your
lawn nice and green, it's all about sweetening the soil it's about making the soil better.
What goes on beneath the soil is nearly more important than what goes on above the lawn
so we're going to talk about that now.
You do usually see this in in granular form but this is a soluble version of humic acid.
You do have to mix it up and you're best leaving it overnight, mix, do your mix up and then leave it overnight.
I'm going to show you that, and then we're going to talk through all the benefits of why we use that so let's go . . . .
Okay so I'm just going to show you how to mix this stuff up now the humic acid does stain stuff so
you don't want to be doing it anywhere that you might cause some damage. It does wash off but
probably better just to mix on the lawn.
And really into 10 or 15 litres of water it only really is a couple of teaspoonfuls of
this product now you can't really overdo it with this but the problem is if you
put in too much it's going to block up the nozzles and cause you all sorts of bother - so
just to show you what this looks like . . . .
You have to mix this in really well, and if you put in too much, it'll congeal,
and it'll clog your sprayer if it's not mixed properly.
You're best to leave it overnight.
So let's talk about the benefits of this stuff. Humic acid isn't a fertilizer,
it's a soil improver and it's going to encourage root growth. Just what we'll want on a new lawn
If it's applied to a clay lawn, or a compacted lawn, it's going to
help loosen the particles in the soil, and it's going to improve the soil structure,
and it improves bio activity within the soil.
most of the time you're going to see this as a granular product
I know a lot of you guys that watch my videos want to have a go at doing stuff yourself.
It's very economical to make a batch of this stuff,
but if you don't want to get your hands dirty - use a granular because this stuff does take
a bit of work. I'm going to leave a link down in the comments to my blog about this if you want to
learn more about humic acid, because it's going to be too much to cover in this one video, I'll
probably come back to this on another occasion. We'll do another video later on the year about it.
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