What about you! Today I'm going to show you how to make your lawn flat and level.
We're gonna be leveling a really bumpy lawn,
I'm gonna show you some tips that are gonna be easy to follow,
step by step. Let's go .......
Welcome back. Now to find any humps and bumps in your lawn, you're gonna need some tools.
You can just have a visual inspection, and just look over the lawn.
Having a straight edge is gonna really help.
You might have a level.
Alternatively, you could use a couple of different boards. Now, you want them to be reasonably straight!
If you don't have anything like that, you could also just use a bit of string.
Now before we do anything, let's get the grass cut because it's gonna be easier to see the humps and the hollows
if the grass is that bit shorter. Let's go .......
So we have the grass cut. Now let's go and have a look and see
where the humps and bumps are in this lawn.
This is a good example. You can clearly see there's a big gap in between there.
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Let's get on with it........
For today's project we're not going to be using anything fancy.
I'm using topsoil tat I sourced from a local builder's merchant. I'll just show you it.
So there's going to be some stones and stuff in this, it's not particularly well screened
It's going to do really well soon. Now I'm going to show you how we're going to deal with any stones that might be, that happen to be in it.
so look. Let's start.........
Whenever you're filling in humps and hollows, it's really important
The bigger the dip, you don't want to, you don't want to fill a big hole all at once.
You want to just put little amounts in, and then stand it down to make sure it's going to be good and firm.
your feet is enough weight to compact something down.
You don't need to use any specialist tools, or roller, or anything like that. So.
Let's get on with that.......
As I explained, it's important, you don't want to fill the hole right up. You want to have a bit of a layer standed in,
and then put on your final layer, depending on how deep the hole is, but you want to do it at least twice.
Even though there's a lot of soil here, you can still see there it's very low.
It never fails to amaze me the amount of soil you use whenever you're filling in holes like this.
Just as I rake this off here, you can see that there are some stones on the surface, some small stones. Isn't the end of the world
Now , I'm going to leave it slightly higher, and then we're going to compact it down.
It may need a bit more after that. but any stones we have, just put them into the bottom of the next hole. Easy.
What we're doing here, the down side of doing it like this is, it may sink a little whenever the grass underneath, when it starts to die and rot down . . . .
You may find that if you just cover your lawn with soil, whenever grass underneath, it starts to break down
You might find it sinks a bit. So that's the downside of doing it like this.
I've already put two barrows in this hole, but you can still see there's a gap there.
Whenever we use the board you can really see the difference. If you just look at it with your eye,
it's not so noticeable. Whenever you put the board across it, it's really, really noticeable.
So I'm just going to give a wee shout out to Mark at Eglantine Timber.
I phoned him a couple of days ago, and he got this stuff down to me really, really quick. Mark - thanks very much!
I've put the first barrow in, now I'm Going to stand it down
and then I'll put the next barrow down. Put a bit more in, stand it down, put more in, easy.
It's always surprising how much soil you actually need
We've gone through nearly a tonne bag, and I'm down to my last two barrows.
I'm just going to have a look round the lawn and look for
the worst area, and then concentrate on it.
Any time I'm cutting the grass here, it's always hard cutting the grass up this hill
because there's quite a big undulation here, so we're going to use the last couple of barrow loads in this section.
Today we've just been using this rake, we use these here for the scarifying and they're really good because of the teeth on them.
they're also really good for the landscaping as well because you have this straight edge on them.
It's very wide, and it's very, very good if you want to do the leveling like we have done today.
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Now , I just want to show you another tool that a lot of people use.
These are a bit more expensive. These are called a "lawn lute".
They're for leveling lawns. So have a go at this here just for me on this bit and we'll level this out.
So if you don't have a rake or you don't have a lawn lute, I'm going to show you another method you can use
just to level up the surface, and get it really nice. Let's do that now..........
Whatever you use for this, you can use a level or you can use the board
but you need to make sure it goes fro one side of the soil to the other.
Just on the final rake. I want to give it just a light rake, not too hard,
just enough to give the seed something to catch into.
We're just going to take our grass seed and put it onto the patches now.
Now if you really want to be really particular, you could weigh it all out and just do enough for each side.
Most of the time with grass seed, if you just throw it out,
I say like throwing out chicken feed, it works very well.
We have the seed down on top of the soil, I'm just going to give it a really light, gentle rake.
It's important to get good seed to soil contact.
And then we're going to stand it down in.
We're going to give it a final stand in. So we just want to get
we just want to make sure
that the seed's in good contact
I'm Going to take some of our Premier Lawns Pre Seeder Fertiliser and put it down on top of that.
To seed small areas like this you don't need a spinner for it at all,
again, you can just throw it out the way you would do the grass seed.
But you just want to be careful that you're not, you're not throwing it down in lumps
you're just throwing it a small amount at a time.
If you were really concerned about it you could measure this area out,
and then just put out enough.
I have two more steps to show you, Really important ones.
A lot of you guys are always asking me how do we stop the birds,
so Me Dad here, he has got the Irish scarecrow.. Go ahead, Dad!
Hungry birds prohibited. Go ffffeed and ffffly someplace else.
For my final tip, we used top soil for this job. If you're wondering why we didn't use sand,
sand doesn't really have any place in your lawn,
but if you want to learn more about why you shouldn't use sand in your lawn,
watch this Video next! Go ahead -- click that!