What about you? My name is Robbie and from Premier Lawn
a lawn care company based in Belfast Northern Ireland and today's video is
how autumn is a great time to give your lawn a pick-me-up with fresh grass seed
Just a bit of background, this is a lawn we took on
Whenever the lawn was first seeded, it was seeded about a year and half ago
And we treat it and cut it on a regular basis - This work is to help thicken it up a bit more
the morning we were here that was a fairly dumped early october day
this is the first step - Aeration, for those of you familiar with my videos
you'll heard me say this is a single best thing that you can do for your lawn and
it shouldn't be overlooked
Just to show you, these are the cores off the lawn
as it’s a new lawn the roots will only start to be making their way down into the soil
this is one of the key benefits in aerating a new lawn, it helps encourage the roots to grow deep into the soil.
Deeper roots are obviously really good
as the plant can hold more nutrients
and deeper into the soil to look for those nutrients
Now we are onto the scarification
there isn’t much thatch in this lawn as you might expect – as it’s a new lawn.
usually one being reasons for scarification or as the Americans call it
dethatching is to pull out all the thatch and debris from the lawn
On this occasion, it is really just a bonus. That's why we are not scarifying on this occasion
I have the scarifer setup to go a little bit deeper that I would usually go
the blades are actually cutting down into the soil and they are making lines in the soil
The reason for this, I want to create a seed bed
you look at the lawn you'll see these lines in it and whenever we overseed -
the seed falls into those lines. Autumn really is a great time time to give your lawn a pick-me-up with fresh seed
As September and early October in the UK and Ireland
the soil tends to be warm enough
And its damp enough that you don't need to water the lawn
Just to show you want I mean, here is a close up of the lawn
All the debris has been lifted from the lawn
The scarifer has actually left lines in the soil and the seed is going to fall down into
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Now just to show you, you can see the lines
see the seed and over time that seed will make its way down into the lawn
over the next few weeks those lines will close over and this
gives the seed somewhere safe to germinate
If you came back to the lawn in a couple of weeks you would see the seed growning in the new lines and this really helps thicken it up
So listen - thanks very much for watching
make sure you check out some other videos, I have plenty of other videos on scarification and overseeding