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So welcome back. Now before we do anything - before we get into the fertilizers - what we're going to do we're going to get the mower set up and we're going to get the grass cut .
now our old friend red thread's back so we have a, we have a spot of red
thread here in the lawn. That is just caused by the time of the year, humidity and nitrogen deficiency
but more often than not it's just in the air and it comes and it goes. So the fertilizer
that we're putting on today will really help target this red thread we do get a lot of it
through the summer. 10 or 15 years ago you'd have never seen it at all the last couple of
years it's everywhere so it's always in the air you get the right conditions it's going to come,
it's going to attack your grass, but generally it doesn't do any harm at all. It just looks bad for
a couple of weeks and then it goes away and your grass should outgrow, it but we're going to treat
it anyway. The nitrogen we're putting on today is really going to treat it and hopefully fix it.
Right guys - so we had this area around the tree here. We did sort of let it go wild because there
was a lot of daffodils and stuff growing in there - now we're getting into the start of June we're going
to take those down and then next year we'll hopefully get a good display again from them.
All right guys - so we've got underneath the trees done there, we're going to get
the mower out we're going to give that a quick set, and then we'll get the grass cut.
All right guys so my assistant, father, Chris only 76 years of age - or sorry he told me to
tell you he's only 76 and a half he's actually mowing stripes and he's actually mowing
circles into the lawn so I don't know if this is gonna be like crop circles we'll have to see.
All right guys - so today we're going to talk about liquid fertilizers and spoon
feeding. Now spoon feeding is, is a lot different than what we would usually do.
I decided this year that I would just, I would do
liquid and organic and biostimulants only on the lawn so that's what we're going to talk about now.
Something I've talked about before is seaweed. Now these guys here are cutting edge for seaweed.
I'm not getting paid to promote this -- unfortunately they don't even sell to the public so I can't
I can't sell it to you - but putting seaweed in with liquid lawn treatments is really good
because it's going to turbo charge your your your fertilizer but it's not actually going to
make your lawn green but it's going to improve what goes on below there so that's why we use it.
So today we're going to be putting on nitrogen liquid lawn treatment and some of the seaweed.
This is going to help stop too much thatch from growing and it's also going to help
combat the weed grasses. Now we're going to start taking the lawn down in height
and this is one of the reasons why we're going to go for the liquid as it gives us more control
and the seaweed is going to help turbo charge and make the liquid lawn treatment work a lot better
and then whenever the grass starts to thicken up at the minute it's just starting to grow
this season was very late starting but as it starts to thicken up then we'll drop the heights
down then we're going to start introducing some of the plant growth regulator so I'm going to show
you that. But I'm going to show you now how we work out the calculations.
So we get asked how you work out application rates. So we have our algae green here and the application rate is 10 to 20 liters per hectare.
Now we want to go on at the lower rate the 10 liters per hectare so 10 liters
per hectare a hectare equals 10 000 square meters so 10 000 per
per hectare then we want to divide our 10 liters per hectare by 10 000
so my maths isn't great - let's get the calculator out
we'll have our 10 and we're going to divide it by 10 000 for our hectare
and then if your lawn was a hundred square meters you would multiply this by a hundred
if it was 260 square meters you'd multiply it by 260. to keep the maths simple we're going
to say that the lawn's 100 square meters we're going to multiply that by a hundred
so that gets us nought point one - so that's nought point one which is a hundred milliliters
for a hundred square meters now if it was two hundred square meters it would be 0.2
All right guys - so you're probably saying to me, "Robby, why why liquids or why granulars - why not granulars?"
We're wanting to drop the height of cut on the lawn and liquid fertilizer is going to give us
a lot more control. So an easy way to explain it would be like an electric cooker and a gas cooker.
Your granular liquid's like an electric cooker you turn it on and it can take a while to get going and it can
be hard to control or else a gas cooker you turn it on and you can control the heat and it's just
there right away and that's the sort of difference between the liquids, the liquids are very are
a lot easier to control whereas you put on a granular and it doesn't give you as much control.