What about you? Today we're going to talk about autumn lawn care tips. What you need to do to get
the most out of your lawn. We're going to be talking about worm casts, clearing leaves off
the lawn, heights of cut, best thing to feed your lawn coming in the autumn, stick around! The first
job for autumn lawn care is keeping the leaves off the lawn obviously it's pretty obvious but
you want to keep the leaves off the lawn the best they can now we seeded the lawn about a month ago
so it's important to us to really keep them off the lawn keep the light coming into the lawn
Now we've got the leaves cleared off the lawn, I can see we've been ignoring edges for a
while. I'm going to get this strimmer out and give this a strim because it's quite hairy.
Next up wormcasts. Now not all worms leave casts, those little mounds of soil that appear in your
soil coming into the autumn and winter. You actually want worms in your lawn, they're
little aerators. Last year a lot of people asked me for products to remove them.
The only thing you could really use is probably a bit of mustard - but I would
argue or I would try and steer you to letting the worms stay in the lawn, and just, I'm going to show you
four different items that you can use to remove the casts off your lawn. So let's do that now.
We have our greenkeepers switch. Now this is a fibreglass rod just in this pole and it
locks into place in it. Very good - you can also use this to clear dew and leaves off the lawn.
As you can see if I want to do the whole lawn I could do the entire lawn
very quickly with this device, this is going to be the fastest way. One of these dew switches probably
cost you six or seventy pounds so it might be a bit dear just for the average gardener. So
let's have a look at something that you're going to have in your house, and it's going to be free.
Something that you're all going to have in your own shed is actually a stiff brush. A stiff brush is really good.
for whenever you have worm casts, just to brush off the lawn. Cheap, easy, works, let's do that now.
Now any time I tell you to brush the grass, folks always remember about your neighbours -
because they're gonna think you're nuts if they see you out brushing the grass.
Next up to remove the worm casts off the lawn is actually just to take a blower and to blow them
off. Very simple now whenever we were clearing off the leaves we actually blew a lot of them.
Last up, my final tip to remove worm casts from the lawn, is to use a drag mat.
This is a drag mat that we made for less than £40 pounds for top dressing and overseeding the lawn with.
Just pull it behind and it's going to do a really fantastic job at cleaning
worm casts off the lawn, and it's going to be really quick too.
Now my next tip is going to be about raising your height of cut. You'll hear a lot of people
say that you should raise your height of cut coming into the winter. The reason for that
is that the grass plant absorbs and makes and stores energy within the leaf. Whenever you're
coming into autumn and winter, there's not as much light and the grass can't
store and make the same amount of energy, so to help it overcome that we'll cut the grass a
bit longer, so now we're going to get the lawnmower out and get the grass cut - so let's do that now.
While we're doing the height we may as well do the quality.
Look at some of this grass here. Not loads of grass came off it but
enough to warrant a cut good cut, so pretty happy with that going from 15 mm to 20mm.
It hasn't been cut in a week but really, yeah, good amount of grass.
A bonus tip this is the only area that you can walk on and off the lawn to I'm going
to fork this area because it's going to get heavily compacted. Whenever you're coming into
the autumn and winter then places that get worn will get badly affected, and it takes
away from the overall look of the lawn so the best thing to do is just to give those areas
an aerate, the easiest way to do that is just with a fork or a drill. So we'll do that now.
My final tip for autumn lawn care tips is to spray some seaweed and iron. I'm not
going to spend a lot of time talking about this. Now today we're going to be using
the Symbio - now if you want to buy off my link there's an Affiliate Link in the Video Description. If you
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So I'm going to put on some seaweed and some iron.
Just a light dusting to help keep some colour in the lawn so let's do that now