What about you! This is Robbie from Premier Lawns. This is a lawn that I scarified
about a month ago. It's a job I do every year for this customer - so stick around -
Robbie's been looking after our lawn since we built the house and every
season he comes back and keeps us in good shape.
This is a question that I get asked quite a bit on the channel, "When is the best time to scarify?".
If you have any questions about this video make sure you leave me a comment down below.
Spring and autumn is the best time to scarify.
to remove moss and thatch from your lawn, so to properly answer this question a lot
varies, it's dependent on whereabouts in the UK you live.
The further south you are, the sooner you'll have to stop before the summer due to the heat, though the trade off
is it can be done closer to the winter.
This is a fairly big lawn, it's
actually two houses beside each other. I've been doing them for a good number of years now.
Make sure you watch this video until the end to see how the lawn turns out!
Bella is helping me today, she's my only helper.
Unfortunately she can't work a rake.
As you see in the video there, a couple of passes over it takes a wee bit off. It could
be a wee bit harder than this here, but it is coming into the start of May, um, I don't
know if May is going to be really dry or really wet. If I go another pass at it,
it's going to be really hard on it, it's probably going to put a lot of bare
patches on the lawn. The person that owns the house is elderly and they're not really
fit to be out with a sprinkler all the time, so two passes on this occasion, I think
is more than enough. So there is still a bit of moss through this lawn, but it's
always the balance of too much, if you take too much out, you can't put it back.
Right. Let's go!
I know that there are a lot of lawn care franchises out there that scarify
during the winter but this is generally considered wrong, and the reason is you
want to scarify whenever there's active growth, and dampness in the air,
and heat in the soil, so that the lawn recovers faster. Now it doesn't
do your lawn any harm to scarify during the winter - but your lawn looks
like a ploughed field if it's done like that, and it stays like that all winter and it
can take a lot longer to recover than it should do you if you do that the right time.
Spring and autumn are perfect time to do scarifying because the soil's warm
and the weather is usually a lot damper and this aids recovery.
I'm now onto this double pass. What I mean by a double pass is just going over the same
area in a different direction. It takes a lot more out.
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Usually, or most years I can scarify right well into May but this year I
had to finish. This is one of my last scarify's this year because this year was so
dry, it was so unusually dry. The year started off with February being the
wettest February on record, and then April was dry.
May was dry, and it turned out June was really dry as well - so a lot of the times
whenever you could start scarifying,
will really depend on your own local weather conditions.
I have noticed a definite change in the seasons since starting gardening all those years ago.
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As it's been so dry this year the lawn hasn't recovered as fast, as good as I
would like to show you guys pictures, so here's some pictures of some previous
years of how the lawn looked.
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