What about you! Welcome to a Premier Lawns Video. Today I'm going to show you some easy tips to
level your lawn - so stick around!
Tip number one, guys - whenever you're going to be top dressing your lawn, you want the
lawn to be as dry as possible. There's a heavy dew here this morning so i'm going to get the
lawn mower out and we're going to get the grass cut, and that's going to take away the dew
and give us a nice dry surface to work from. So let's get on with that now.
Today we're going to be using some sand to top dress the lawn.
Now, this isn't normal sand this is actually a sports sound this is double washed USDA sand.
It''s a really sort of specialized product. Now whenever you're reel,
reel mowing, or using a cylinder mower, the more level you can have the lawn the easier, and
the better it's going to look, and we want it just to look like glass. So let's get on with that now.
Now you don't need to use anything as fancy as a level, you could just use a string
or even a plank to find the dips and help you tell where all the big undulations are
and where you need to spend your time on. Also, just visually having a look at the lawn and
having a look to see where all the humps and bumps are.
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regular lawn care tips and tricks on bringing your lawn to the next level - so let's get on with it.
Now, I'm going to let yous into a secret. Guys, you want the material as dry as you can
and whenever your top dressing a flat shovel is what you want
and you don't want too much on top of it and then it comes off the shovel lovely.
This sand here we've actually had in the shed for
the last couple of months, and it's dried off and it's an absolute joy to work with,
because it spreads out really well.
So in the grand scheme of things, this lawn is actually pretty level.
We killed it off last year, and redid it, and we leveled it then
but over time your lawn does move about and it sinks in different places so
we're just going to use the sand to really smooth that surface out.
Now what I would say guys is, it doesn't, top dressing with sand or top dressing with soil,
all good. I really wouldn't be top dressing with compost because as the compost breaks down
it's going to decrease your levels and really mess things up so
if you're going to be doing any top dressing make sure you don't have any compost in it.
So as you can see, we've got all this top dressed, we've paid a bit of attention to the hollows
and put a wee bit extra in. Now one of the most important things whenever you top dress a lawn,
either with sand or with soil, is to actually let it dry - so we're going to go around and have a look
at some tools that we can use that'll help brush the sand into the lawn so let's go and do that now.
We have a few different methods here to mat in the sand. Now I'm going to actually have to
hurry up because it's trying to rain. It was meant to be dry today but welcome to Northern Ireland!
The forecasters can't get it right - so we'll have a few different methods now I have a professional
drag mat and a lot of you guys says to me - "Robbie, they cost hundred of pounds we can't afford that!" so -
we bought this thing off Amazon I've already done a Video on it - I'll put a Link down below about it.
you can make a drag mat for absolutely next enough so this thing cost less than 40 pounds
I also have a selection of lutes or lawn levelers to show you so we're going to try them all out
and see which one works best but I have to put this one together - so let's get on with that now.
Now a few people sent me pictures of their,
their lawn leveler what I say is, if you have it all rolled up sitting in your shed you're
actually using it wrong. You just want to set it flat and just put the lawnmower on top of it.
Okay so that's the mat together. We also have a couple of lawn lutes here.
We have a 30 inch one good for if you have really, if you have really big dips this is pretty good.
This would be used more for soil that's just slightly different this design
and it's got a bendy handle on it to make it a bit easier so we'll see those now.
All right guys - so you can see a couple of passes up with just a mat fantastic job really quick so
let's get there let's get the lawn lute and see how that goes this one here's a bendy,
a bendy handle on it which makes it a bit easier.
That's pretty hard work to push but that's really getting the sand in.
I think if you were to do a whole lawn with this you would know all about it!
Now this thing here is called a lawn level very popular for
using to level lawns but it does mat stuff in lovely and
the beauty of it is - it it'll really help if you have any undulations in the lawn.
But I'm going to show you another method that you can use to level your lawn so you
don't actually need to spend anything so let's do that now. So the one tool you can use that
might actually surprise you is actually just a brush. You can just use just a brush to brush your lawn.
Now it's not going to be as good a job as the lawn lute or
as our mat but it's going to be something that you're probably going to have.
The only downside to this is that it's not going to smooth out your lawn, it's not
going to level it just as much but it's going to help just brush in the stuff the material
you're using, now it might be useful to use in around really tight areas just keep that handy.
You all know if you have any questions about the stuff I'm covering - always leave me a Comment down
below we build the Videos round the questions that you guys asked me - so let's get on with it.
All right guys so just my final thoughts on what works best I think that the the mat works really
well for matting areas in especially for bigger lawns. I'm going to go against the grain and say
that I'm not a big fan of the lawn lutes. I know a lot of you'll see a lot of YouTubers they all
recommend them but for certain areas, they're good if you have a really undulating lawn.
They're pretty good for that. Just for to top dress your lawn nice and easy, I think
this wins hands down and the brush for in and around flower beds and tightly get areas maybe the edge.
I think as well, these things here are really good if you want to seed your lawn, if you're seeding
your lawn. Even in the winter, if you want to get rid of worm casts then the mat's going to win
hands down well above this here these are pretty hard work for what they are. Just just my opinion.