What about you - and welcome to a Premier Lawns video.
Today I'm going to show you how I green up my lawn in the winter
with a Bonus Tip on how to control worms organically.
So. Stick around . . . .
The product that I'm gonna talk about today, is the greenkeeper, is a greenkeeper's best friend.
It's really good because it makes the lawn lovely dark green, rich colour.
And during the winter, the colour lasts for a long time
so the product we're gonna use today, is iron.
Now iron as I say is the greenkeeper's best friend
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We took an ugly lawn that was covered in weed grasses, and we sprayed it off
and we totally killed it, and then we redid it.
We scarified it, we treated it, we top dressed it
and I've done videos every step of the way, and we did a video about how to cut your lawn for the first time.
So now we're into the winter and I want to show you guys how to really green up your lawn.
We worked really hard all summer to get a really nice lawn.
Whenever it comes to winter you want your lawn looking well. Now
we're just on the run up to Christmas here - and everybody wants a nice lawn for Christmas!
So - I'm going to talk you through all the different rates that you might use iron at.
Now if you were going to use iron, and you just wanted a green up, you wanted to up your lawn green
you would use between a hundred to a hundred and fifty grams
per hundred square metres.
What we want to do today, another reason why iron is a fantastic thing for your lawn -
it helps build disease resistance into the plant.
So we're gonna - to get the disease resistance, you have to go between
a hundred and fifty and two hundred grams per hundred square metres.
Now if you wanted to control moss,
you would use between two and four hundred grams per hundred square metres.
Now, iron is a very "forgiving" product,
and if you use a little bit too much it'll not hurt
but I really would caution over going over the four hundred grams per hundred square metres.
For example, if you went to five hundred grams per hundred square metres
you would probably burn the lawn.
I would generally put this into between three and five litres of water
depending on how much iron that I was putting on
For today, for a hundred square metres, we're probably gonna use about five litres of water
and I'm gonna show you how to mix that up now, and we're gonna talk through some of the nozzles.
Now I'm not gonna get too much into nozzles, because that's a video in itself!
But look - let's get to that now.
So the nozzles that I recommend you using are these boys here
the green one point two deflector nozzles.
Now these have a wide spray pattern
and they give out a very coarse spray so
the beauty about these is you're gonna get less drift, you're gonna get less drift if you use these
and less chance then on staining, and they have the high output
for your water rate.
so for iron, these things here are perfect.
So there's a lot of different types of iron and the one we're talking about today is the sulphate of iron.
Now the reason I recommend sulphate of iron is it breaks down really well
whenever you put it into water.
But if this is your first time using it, what I recommend
is you getting a big bucket and filling it up with lukewarm water
and pouring the sulphate of iron into it and it's gonna break down really well.
And then pouring that into your sprayer.
Now iron does stain everything.
If you get it onto concrete or paving it can be really hard to remove those stains
so I recommend that you do all those things on a lawn or else somewhere out of the way
where you're not going to cause any damage.
Right guys I've been getting a lot of questions about worm casts in the lawn.
(During the summer, worm casts aren't so much of an issue.)
So I'm gonna show you a really good organic product that controls the worms.
But before that, let's have a look and see just how we can get rid of them without using any products at all.
So the first one is probably just a brush! A nice stiff brush
and you just brush them out of the way.
So as you see, going with the brush can be very slow
and it does take a long time if you have any sort of size of a garden although
most people will have a stiff brush around the house.
Another tool I have here - this is actually a greenkeeper's tool so
this is called a switch and it's basically a fibre glass rod
in a aluminium pole so
we just use this across the lawn.
Now, if you don't want to invest into one of these here, I have another product for you,
is an organic way to control your worms.
It doesn't last for very long, so you'd have to be putting it on every two to three weeks.
What we'll use is - mustard.
Now - buy some cheap mustard off Ebay or off the internet. You don't need to use this stuff!
I'm gonna put the calculations that I would use to put this on my own lawn
in the Description in the video below and you will need to just play about with it yourself
to get the rates for your own garden.
We ran a competition on Facebook and on Instagram about how we created these stripes.
Now that competition is now closed so please don't be entering in.
We were giving away a manual Draper Aerator
but some of the answers that you guys gave us was absolutely hilarious.
I'm gonna be giving away one of the Limited Edition Premier Lawns cups as well.
We're gonna enter everybody into that competition that gave us an answer.
Everybody that Subscribed to the Channel this year - absolutely fantastic.
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I'm really looking forward to taking this lawn to a whole new level
and showing you guys every step of the way on how to do it.
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Goodbye!