Do you want to turbocharge your lawn feeding this summer, to get an amazing lawn?
What about you! I'm Robbie from Premier Lawns.
Today's Video, I'm going to show you some professional level lawn care tips.
We're going to break it all down, let's go .....
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Welcome back, today's Video is all about the products we use and the processes we do.
Before we start into that, I have some important stuff to do.
So our first step just in all this here, we're going to verti cut the lawn.
Now, this has been discussed quite a bit recently in the Channel.
If you're verti cutting your lawn you really want to do it with a box on, but I did a previous Video in the past about why actually
scarify/ lightly verticut with no box on, so I'll leave a Link to that Video in the Video
Description if you want to go and watch that after this here one here.
We're taking very, very little. You can see that we're taking very very little out of the lawn, we just want to try and stop the
weed grasses from properly getting a grip on the lawn, we're not taking too much out at all today.
Just a real light scarify/verticut.
You can see some of the seed heads, and that's one of the reasons why we're doing this,
because it helps lift those up, so whenever we run the mower over them we're going to get
a good nice clean cut on them.
You can see looking across the lawn, how little we actually took out.
Just to have a quick look at some of this. Most of the lawn didn't really have too much to come
out which is good, means we're staying on top of the thatch and the weed grasses.
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I''m going to show you something today that I don't usually talk about.
I'm going to show you the fertilizer that i'm going to be putting on the lawn.
Just want to talk about a few different things, and why we use different products.
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Okay. Something I'm going to talk about. Now as you've seen, we've previously cut the lawn there
with the Milwaukee mower. It's sitting at 30 mil, this lawn mower is set at 25 mil .
There's not loads of grass in that grass box. The grass, this lawn hasn't been cut in 10
days. Generally, if I left this lawn for 10 days, the grass box would have been full !
We've been using a product called a plant growth regulator, and what that does is it pushes the
the growth back down into the plant. It inhibits the gibberellic acid inside your plant,
and it makes your lawn thicker. It can make your lawn greener, and it encourages root growth. It's,
it's, now it's more of a professional product, but I'll leave a link in the Video Description where
we did a Video about that. Now for anybody interested in using it, I'm going to show
you a trick today to make sure that you get your rates done properly. Let's get on with cutting the grass ....
So this bit of glass, it's a very expensive magnifying glass, and it's called a "prism gauge".
It's used for measuring the height of cut on the lawn. I brought it out to show you, we had
the Milwaukee mower, it was cut at 30 mil and we have the John Deere and it's cut at
25, so I'm just going to show you the difference in the height. So let's go into that now ......
The lawn mower is set at 25 mil, and whenever you look at the prism gauge,
the grass is just slightly shorter than actually the 25 mil because there's also the weight
of the lawnmower pushing it down, and for our American viewers - I know you guys don't like centimeters so
you can hopefully see the inches height there.
If anything that's just above the 30 mil, if you can see that......
And then for our American viewers, we'll bring it over to inches.
We have this bit of grass here, this grass here, this is the bit that was cut with
the Milwaukee mower at 30 mil, and then over the far side you've seen that it was being cut at 25 mil.
Don't often talk about professional products however decide to shake things up a bit this year.
We started talking about the plant growth regulator.
Going to say that if you're going to be using plant growth regulator,
get yourself a little syringe off Ebay. These, these are really good for just measuring it, because you
can find a drop of this goes quite far, and if you put it on too much you can burn the lawn, and you do
have to be quite accurate with it. I'd use a wee syringe to put it on with, also be throwing on some
nitrogen, seaweed, and then I'm also going to put on a granular fertilizer today.
So whenever you put on a plant growth regulator, there's a chance that you're going to burn
your lawn, it burns your lawn a wee bit, so that you need to put on a liquid fertilizer with it.
I'm going to have a quick talk about seaweed. Now a lot of people are putting seaweed on
their lawns, and saying, "oh, it's making my lawn lovely and green". Seaweed's not for that.
It's meant to be just for making your soil, it improves your soil.
You want to get some color with that stuff because it does contain iron, but generally we use seaweed
in the business because it sweetens the soil, but it also turbo charges nitrogen. Without getting too
technical about it, it makes the nitrogen in your lawn work a lot better whenever you use
seaweed, but if you're going to be using seaweed make sure you pick a good one, because you can
get a lot of manufacturers make a product with seaweed and it contains very, very little seaweed
in it, so usually cold press is the best way to go in my opinion with seaweed. Let's get on with it ......
Keep the pets in the house whenever you're putting on products, folks !
We've got a little bit of seaweed in there, a little bit of iron, good drop of nitrogen and the
plant growth regulator, so just to have a quick talk about the fertilizer that I'm going to be
putting on the lawn. We're going to be using pro turf 15 515 the reason i use this the the k and
that the 15 this number here that's going to give me a bit of protection. I do expect to see
some disease in the lawn, red thread whenever it turns wet. You're always going to get some.
I'm hoping that gives me a bit of protection, and helps it grow back. The 15 per cent nitrogen, it is a
a product, is a slow release it takes around eight weeks to break down, so
it's not that high a number of nitrogen. If that was a normal controlled release
fertilizer, and if we had 15 per cent that would be way too much, but whenever you're using controlled
release fertilizers, controlled release fertilizers take a certain amount of time to break down,
then 15 isn't a very high number. Going to take between eight to ten weeks for that product to
break down, so I'm going to get a lovely uniform color over that period of time. We've also got
the magnesium and the calcium. Again magnesium, it's a bit like iron, it makes the plant nice and green.
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