What about you! Welcome to Premier Lawns Videos. Today is a sad, sad day.
18 months ago we killed off this lawn, because it
was covered in weed grasses and guess what it's covered in weed grasses!!!!####
All these seed heads we see all over the lawn, this is new weeds all about to start. New weed grasses,
all about to start. The reason why we can see so many seed heads at the minute, the lawn
hasn't been cut in three weeks Three weeks ago we overseeded it, two weeks ago we top dressed it with
sand. I haven't really done anything to it, apart from water it since then, and that is why all these seed
heads are really sitting up prominent. One of the biggest issues i have with this garden - these bushes here,
they stop a lot of the winter light coming in, so there's no light gets into this side
of the garden at all during the winter and it just gives a chance for the weedt grasses that
encroach in the lawn, and i have another really big issue that I can't do anything about as well.
We have a field at the side of the house, and we get a lot of weed seeds just blown over
into the lawn. Let's get the lawnmower out and give the grass a cut.
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As we top dressed the lawn a couple of weeks ago i was expecting to find a lot of sand
in through the grass. There's not a lot of sand in there. Anyone that knows the cylinder mowers,
the sand, cylinder mowers hate sand, it blunts the mowers, but as there's not a lot
of sand through that grass, I'm going to get the cylinder mower out now and give it a cut.
At the minute, so, I've just cut the lawn at 30ml. Now the lawnmower is currently
set to 20 mil so it'll be a bit rash to start cuttingthe lawn right away with the cylinder mower
so I'm just going to take my setting bar and bring it up in height. Let's do that now........
While it's turned over like this, we'll give it a quick test, paper test.
Cutting that really well.
Quick tighten up.
So I had the lawnmower sitting at 25 mil. Now that lawn mower is designed to cut grass short it has
11 blades on it, those 11 blades are brilliant if you're cutting grass really really short, five six mil.
Not really designed to cut grass at 25 mil, but we'll see how we go. Let's get on with it .......boom
So just to have a closer look at this, you can see we've done half the lawn.
you can see a lot of seed heads in the grass.
Usually I would say, if you have lots of weed grasses, scarify, verticut all you can. As we've just
seeded this a few weeks ago, I don't want to. Now, I do think that a lot of the problems have stemmed from
the top dressing that we brought in. I brought in sand from a golf course,
the proper USGA sand, but iI think it was full of the weed grasses and my lawn is now plagued
with it. If you want to know other reasons why you shouldn't use sand, watch this Video, now. Go ahead!