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Today we're going to be aerating and scarifying this lawn.Let's go ...................
We aerate lawns to let the air down into the soil, and encourage deeper roots to get down
into the soil, that is the main reason for doing aeration.
Now whenever we do the hollow core as well, it pulls out some thatch, so if you look on
this you can see this layer here this is thatch, a little bit of thatch is always healthy to
have in your lawn.
You want to have some amount of thatch but whenever you get a lot of thatch then it starts, it
becomes a barrier layer, and air, water and light can't pass down through it.
So regular aeration is really good just that helping keeping your soil profile open you
can see the roots there getting right down the bottom of that core.
Right guys, okay, so we have a new start, I have a new colleague with me we've got Jason here
so you're going to be seeing Jason in a lot more of the Videos, but Jason's doing
the aerating today, now the wheels on this machine were getting all bogged up, and he
came up with a pretty good solution to fix it , so ..............
There you go I've been using this machine for the last 10 years, and we've always just
been cleaning off with our hands, and somebody new comes along just with a nice simple idea
and fixes just small things.
Definitely a keeper.
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And then our next step is scarification.
We do that because the scarifying pulls the moss and the thatch out of the lawn.
So that's us. We've done one pass over it now Along that fence there where it's wet, there's
a lot more moss and thatch along there, and the reason being a lot of the water is coming
in from the road. The rest of the lawn is not too bad. We scarify this lawn every year.
So that's one pass done . Always like to do two always like to try and get some out. Now
we are getting quite far into the season. Now the scarifying was very slow to start this year
just because March was so bad. The weather was so bad we didn't do any scarifying at all
in March, so we're only really starting in to it now, but we're getting into the middle
of April so I don't want to be too hard on the grass so I'm going to do my second pass
now. I'm just going to cut across.
So now we have all that lifted off, the next task is we're going to feed the lawn.
So today I'm using the Pro Turf, this is the 15 5 15 .
We haven't got that much waste, there's only three or four bags,
and our next task is we're going to put on the iron. Now a lot of people ask me about
the iron, so I always just say find the cheapest soluble iron you can. You can get different
irons, you can get irons that aren't soluble. We'll just pour that straight into this the
sprayer and it just mixes up instantly, If you buy one that's not soluble then it's going
to obviously block up your sprayer, so always be mindful of that, but my advice to you would
be - look for the cheapest iron and always go for it because all irons are pretty much the same!
We spray the iron on afterwards because whenever your scarify you're opening the moss right up,
and if you put it on beforehand you're just spraying the top of the moss, whereas if you're
scarifying the lawn you're opening the moss right up. The iron doesn't actually kill the
moss. The iron just dehydrates it and that burns it, so that's why we put the iron on afterwards.
If you want to find out everything there is to scarify your lawn from starting to finish,
tips and the tools, watch this Video next and I'll see you over there now ................