welcome to January's lawn care calendar and in this episode i'm going to be looking at all the
things that you can do to get the most out of your lawn in the month of January and some tips that
i'm planning to do just to keep my lawn looking in good shape right the way through to the spring
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my monthly garden updates the first tip that i want to talk to you about in January is around
debris on the lawn you can see some bits of debris from the cornice trees that i've got
over the side and on the front lawn i've also got some areas where the beech trees that i've got
just drop their leaves onto the lawn now you'd think most of the leaves from autumn will have
passed by now but just from walking around the neighbourhood i can still see some lawns with
lots of debris still sitting on the lawn such as leaves and twigs furniture kids play toys whatever
you can think of and anything that's going to be sitting on that lawn it's crowding out the light
and it's also encouraging some diseases to spread in the lawn which we don't want
diseases can be particularly difficult at this time of year because the grass isn't growing
as readily as it normally would be so it's much more difficult for the grass to combat the disease
and also it's more difficult for the lawn to repair itself because it isn't actively
growing so tip number one is clear any debris that you've got off the lawn
you can do this by going over with your lawn mower raise the height up keep the grass long
and keeping the grass long will also bring me into tip number two which is just about doing a trim at
a high height because it will help crowd out moss that's developing underneath the surface by again
reducing the light down to the surface running the mower over can help suck up any debris on the lawn
keep your lawn long and keep it healthy for this time of year by crowding out the moss speaking of
moss in the lawn i've just recently done a video on controlling moss in the lawn which i'll link in
the card above if you're interested and over the winter it can be a good time to apply a product
that's going to do a couple of things for your lawn i'm applying a product called iron sulfate
which helps me green up my lawn and secondly iron can also control moss in the lawn and thirdly
it can just harden off the turf a little bit especially if it's applied at the higher dosages
this is the product that i'm using iron sulfate it's a soluble product
and this product you mix with water and then apply it onto the lawn
one of the other things we're tackling at this time of the year is the elements in terms of the
snow and the rain now there isn't too much you can do about the rain but prolonged periods of
rain sitting on a lawn that isn't draining can cause the lawn to go yellow a little bit and
also over time promote some degree disease the second element we want to look at is snow now
there isn't again too much you can do about preventing the snow but in terms of managing
it after it's come down there's a few things that you can be aware of try not to pile snow
up onto the lawn for long periods of time so this could be for example building a snowmen or
moving it from the path onto the lawn and letting it sit there if you can try to spread
it more evenly across the lawn surface and that will help it break down because when snow's left
for long periods of time on the lawn this can cause some patches and disease which are going
to really struggle to repair right the way up until the springtime the next thing is around
temperatures i've seen a few questions on my facebook page garden lawn care guy people asking
what time of year can i start my renovations and plant grass seed now generally it's quite cold
to be planting grass seed there are some varieties that can grow around five degrees or even a little
bit lower i've got a variety called cold start on my website gardenlawncareguide.com which i'll
link in the description below this variety can start from as low as 5 degrees but in general
most people are waiting for soil temperatures between 8 to 12 degrees and before they can start
repair work and renovation that's going to be moving us into late february or march before we
really start to looking at doing any repair works on some of the patches that we've got in the lawn
when we're thinking about the grass itself there's a couple of things that
i'd like to bear in mind as well at this time of year and the first of all is around air frost
so the temperatures are anywhere between zero minus right in the low digit number of figures
and that's going to create a frost build up in the lawn so while i'm filming this clip i'm going to
just drop this soil temperature in so we can see what the temperature of the lawn is at the moment
and when i say temperature of the lawn i mean temperature of the soil now
if there is a frost in the lawn and you step on it those footprints are going to sit in there
you can damage the grass and you really want to be keeping off the lawns when it's frosty
because you can cause some long-lasting damage and again that won't repair itself till spring
so we've got a couple of months where ideally if you can stay off it stay off the lawn
taking a look at the thermometer
we're running at a cool 3.5 degrees the next part is a lot of people are
planning lawn renovations this year i did a full program on my lawn renovation which
i'll link in the card above but i'm also going to be planning a lawn renovation
this year so if there's any topics that you'd like me to cover or that you're
not quite certain of what order to do things in leave me a comment in the comment section below
i try to read all the comments and reply wherever i can so i do appreciate if you drop me a comment
is there anything that you'd like me to cover in part of my renovation plan
and maybe i can help you out and certainly take you through the types of stuff that i'll be doing
given it's three degrees outside i'm going to call it a day for this video
thanks for watching and here's some videos that you might like the rest of my lawn care calendar
series and a video that's recommended for you i'll see you in the next video