What about you! Can you believe it we're back scarifying and aerating.
That season's rolled around - sometimes I wonder where the time goes but
Danny here is on the aerator so we're just going to be aerating and scarifying this medium sized lawn.
So this is actually one of the gardens we look after on a long term basis
I've been looking after this lawn for a long time.
We do the hedges twice a year, do the grass look after the paving, all that other fun stuff.
For anybody who's new to the Channel - we do this, we pull these things here - these are the cores
from the areation, and we do this here for some different for a few different reasons number
one it lets air down into the lawn and helps the lawn, breathe. We do it along with scarification,
it removes some of this stuff here the bit that's bouncy on a core - bouncy bouncy - this
is actually "thatch" , so some thatch in your lawn is healthy, but whenever you start to have too much
of this stuff then it becomes unhealthy. This lawn has a reasonable amount of thatch in it,
but we just want to keep it down to a minimum and we're going to pull out - you can see some moss in
the top of that core so we're looking to pull that out and we're going to let the air down in.
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So let's get on with it!
Well just as Danny finishes off there, we're going to get the scarifyer out. I'm going to do
the scarifying. The regulars that watch my show always give me a bit of abuse about Danny always
doing all the work - so you're going to see me doing some work for a change - let's get on with that now.
All right guys, now I have Danny back at the work so as me and you can have a talk now.
Just to show you what we're sort of pulling out of this here you can see thatch and moss and stuff that's
generally not very nice so whenever we pull this out it's going to help the lawn breathe.
Now there's not too - there's not actually too much moss through this
it's mostly just thatch and organic material so over time your lawn does pick up organic material
and that's why we do the scarifying to pull this out. So this is really going to help the lawn breathe.
Today we're just we're only doing one slow pass over the, over it, because just to try and pull out
as much as we can, but without being too hard on it I sort of feel if we did two passes on the lawn it
might be too hard. What we'll actually do is we'll get all this cleared up, and then I'll assess whether
or not we need to go over, to pull more of this out.
Now that's us coming to the end of the scarifying. We do have more stuff to show you
but what I really - if you have the time - with scarifying, one of, a good thing to do is to let it dry off because it's a lot easier to lift and and to take away, so
we're going to let this dry off, go and have a cup of tea and uh we'll see you shortly
Alright guys? Now we've had our tea - so we're just going to get the blower out
and clear all this mess up and then we're going to get on with the rest of it so - see you in a minute.
All right guys - so as you can see we took a fair bit out just from the one pass.
So just at the minute guys Danny's putting on the Moss Control. We put this on afterwards, because
it helps burn the moss. A lot of people put moss control on before, but I think that's wrong. I've
explained this before in videos if you think of the moss all sitting up, and whenever you spray the
moss you're only spraying the top, but if you wait until after you scarify the surface and you've
really if you if you wait until after you've scarified the lawn then you've opened the grass
up and you're going to get the iron right down to the bottom so that's why we do it at the end.