What about you! And welcome to Premier Lawns Video Today we're going to be talking about
August Lawn Care tips. Now August is a big month within lawn care.
You might be planning to do an early lawn renovation. We killed this lawn off last
year, and we redid it, and we started that in August. I'm going to show you how to kill
clover in your lawn organically, I'm going to show you how to treat red thread, we're going
to talk about some aeration and lastly I'm going to show you a method that fertilizer companies
don't want you to know about an easy cheap way to make really good fertilizer. So stick around ........
Welcome back. Now I have this really good tip to tell you
about how to kill clover on your lawn, and it's going to help you make some really cheap
fertilizers and the fertilizer companies don't want you to know - so - keep it to yourself.
Now before we get too far into the video guys if I could ask you to SMASH
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and tricks on bringing your lawn to the next level - so look let's get on with August lawn care tips.
Anyone that's planning to do some aeration this time of year - I would say stick to small
holes, don't hollow core. Whenever you hollow core you're going to open the ground right up.
Perhaps just stick to the fork, or a drill with a drill bit on it. Today we're going to be aerating
a lawn with this thing here but we're just going to be using the very small spikes. We're going
to be staying away from the cores or the big, putting big holes down into the ground.
We have some brown patches on the lawn. Now let's have a closer look. Whenever we take a close-up
look at them you'll actually see some red in the grass. Now red thread is a very common lawn disease
now in the UK. Ten years ago you hardly seen it at all caused mostly by a nitrogen deficiency,
a nitrogen deficiency in your soil, but it's also always in the air and whenever you get
warm damp conditions that's whenever the red thread appears so we treat it with nitrogen.
So we have these patches here, and I don't know if the camera picks it up, but they're actually
the grass is actually red and it's caused just a fungus that grows in the air and anytime you get
the right conditions it comes down and it attacks the grass, and although it doesn't do much harm to
your lawn it looks very unsightly. You typically get these patches through the summer starting
in June July August. Should you use fungicide to treat red thread on your lawns? I would say, no
you shouldn't. Whenever you use fungicide, you kill all the bacteria in your lawn. We use products like
this Compost Tea to introduce the bacteria that we do want in the lawn. So whenever you
use a fungicide you're wiping all of that out and you're undoing your good work so what I would say
is, learn how to treat red thread organically and you'll have a much healthier lawn.
I'm going to give you six easy tips to kill clover in your lawn.
Now the most obvious one would be to use a selective weed killer, and just go around and spray any weeds that you have. Now not everybody
wants to use weed killer, so we'll get a lot of questions about how to do it organically. So
my first tip would be just to take a knife and to cut it out we've covered that in quite a bit of
detail in other Videos so I'm not really going to get into that one. Cut it out, bit of soil down, job done.
Clover has this really neat trick where it can literally pluck nitrogen out of the air
and it converts it into nitrogen so whenever you see clover grown it's usually all green
around the edges and in the middle and the rest of the grass will be pretty bare.
Usually you'll see clover growing in an area that needs fed.
Now, over watering can be a real issue if you have some clover because you're always washing the good
nutrients straight out of the soil so whenever you over water you're going to encourage clover.
Another simple tip to help get rid of clover in your lawn is to raise your height of cut, and let
your lawn out grow it, Now clover typically grows in areas that are really compacted
and malnourished so a really easy way - aerate in and around and maybe the auger is not a tool
I would use, maybe use the fork or even just a drill bit, and drill in and around the area where it is.
All right guys - now before we get into the really juicy bit of this video -
I'm going to show you the nuclear option for dealing with clover on your lawn.
If you've exhausted all other methods and if you don't want to use a weed control, would be
to put down a mat and cover it and and take away the light although this here is actually what I
would say the nuclear option because you're going to kill the other grass around it but
it's very effective. Just going to take some membrane that you put underneath stones and
whenever we put that down on the lawn it's going to block out the light and it's going to kill now -
downside of this is that you're going to kill some of the grass too,
but if you don't want to use chemicals this is a very good option.
Now the product I'm going to tell you about today is called sulphate of ammonia. You've probably
heard of sulphate of ammonia, it usually comes in granular form and you might use it around your
cabbages etc., or you might apply to your lawns in a granular form. I'm going to show you how you can
break those granulars down in the water, give you the calculations for step by step for everything
you need to use it on your lawn and this method is a really cheap and easy way to clean up your
lawn. Whenever you learn how to do this you'll not buy shop bought nitrogen again! You'll just always use
sulphate of ammonia. One of the really good things is you can mix it up with other products - seaweed,
humic acids, everything else - to make some really cheap fertilizers. So let's get on with that now
Now this is something that fertilizer companies don't want you to know. Whenever you learn how to make
your own fertilizer up, it's an awful lot cheaper. So we're going to do some simple maths today.
A bag, one bag of sulphate of ammonia weighs 25 kilos,
and that treats one hectare, which is 10 000 square meters
so to work out exactly how much you need per square meter we're going to put the noughts on
the end of the the kilos just keep things to keep the decimal points right so we're going to say
25 000 divided by our square meter rate which is 10 000.
so we'll take our calculator and we'll go 25 1 2 3 25 000 divided by 10 000 which is our hectare rate
equals 2.5 grams
per meter square. Now if your lawn measured 100 square meters you would multiply that
figure times 100 which is 250 grams so 2.5 grams times 100 square meters equals 250
grams. Why you used to use liquid over granular, especially for red thread, is because the liquid
works right away, a granular takes time to break down although the downside the liquid is you're
literally turning off the lawn every time you cut the grass. There are different grades of
sulphate of ammonia guys - but they're all in essence the same that you can pick that up
off Amazon, or you can get it from your garden centre, but if you want to support my Channel
and if you found this video helpful, I'll leave a Link down below where you can pick it up for
no extra cost to yourself. Whenever you're using that stuff you'll probably have to leave it overnight
make the mix up the amount you need for your size of the lawn and leave it overnight and come back
and it'll be ready to put into the sprayer. Before you start this, you're going to need safety glasses
anytime you handle chemicals, safety glasses, noise, gloves, all right - now this stuff will stain
paving, so you need to be really careful over, if you're going to be doing this over concrete.
Right guys - so now we have that covered, let's get the lawn sprayed !
Now sulphate of ammonia can scorch your grass, so you need to be careful with it and don't
over do the rates that I've quoted below. If you are going to go above the rates I've quoted below
go up in increments to make sure that you don't scorch the grass.