If it’s any consolation, I scarified to bare soil, leveled, seeded, top dressed with compost and fleeced first week of October. 2 weeks later and its looking similar to yours. Very patchy and some places the seed hasn’t taken at all. I too wish I had done it a month earlier. I had wash outs and a few days with frost in the morning. Looking at your video made me feel a little better as you can’t account for the weather and the missus was in my ear ‘I told you to leave it alone’ lol.
Glad to help!! Not too concerned about it though. Grass is hardy stuff and the drainage improvements where the main focus for the back and believe this has been resolved. Hopefully yours and mine, will improve with the mild weather we are having before winter sets in. A winter fert may help you. I'll be applying one soon.
I feel your pain mate. So gutting after all that blood, sweat and tears to find you did not get the results you wanted. But nothing much can be done from now until next Spring as we cant change the weather. By the end of the video it looked far more green than sand though, so not so disheartening as first thought.
As Gary Barlow sang, just have a little patience! 🤣. Always knew it was a bit risky on pure sand, and no compost, but it's coming good.. pretty happy with where it sits now. Bit of work in spring before the kids can destroy it next year !! 😂
@@TheReelMowingMowingClub nice Dan, been so mild lately also that it is sprouting up so fast. I am so impatient, after seeing mine last year germinate within 4 days, that I want it to always be like that, but found out like your back when recently doing my mum's back garden, can't always happen. But again like you I wish I managed to get my mum's back done about two weeks before the date I did it, and think the results would have been so much better. I will have to overseed bare areas in Spring now.
Its getting there mate was bit worried at the start of the vid, good progress in this video, like you say might need an overseed in the spring like my lawn.
Slowly but surely. Hoping for a thicken up over the next few weeks before winter kicks in! But a bit more seed next spring won't be the end of the world! A night it looks ridiculously good
looked not too shabby at the end, shame the weather did for the grass but that was an unpredictable. The grass clippings and shredded leaves make a lovely compost that is a braw top dress...
Cheers Michael. Raining again now! Forecast said a lovely day was expected today. Never done compost. Father in law does when he takes my clippings to his house though!
Looking much better by the end. I’m sure it’ll come through nicely with time. Did my end of September and it’s only more looking thicker after 3 cuts and some feed
Time is key. I've had full germination in 5 days before, cutting after day 9. But hey ho. Cutting it mow will help it, and in turn that will stop all the bloody bits of sand and worm cast mud sticking to the wheels of the mower!
Mornign Karl. This was just washed grit sand from a local builders merchant. My garden is on a new build and very clayey. This along with the gypsum seemed to have improved it significantly
At least you're honest. I was wondering how it was coming on? I scalped mine back to dirt roughly same time as your renovation. Pre seed fertiliser, products and seed, Jack's Magic, then fleeced and watered. Bloody pigeons kept eating all the seed when the wind blew away the fleece. Fortunately for me mine has turned out great. Haven't mowed yet as didn't want to suck up any of the seed with the Hayter rotary. Plus it just hasn't stopped raining. I've got so many worm casts this year too. Keep it going mate, it'll look great next year. Look forward to the progress on the next video 😜👌🏼
It's certainly a good size garden. Are you using the Gruntek sprinkler 360 degrees. Great bit of kit very impressed, especially with low water pressure I have.
we had a lot of wash out was just chatting to caroline we both said we had a wash out in oct 2022 and nov 2022 and if u look in this video heading Part 20 friends lawn recorded on 14.01.23 First video of 2023 three months after seeding in oct 2022 looks little better had a alot of wash out heavy rain and lawn struggled
not bad for time of year carolines lawn reno two years ago was the same playlish friends reno 2022 heading part 15 30.10.22 video friends reno not gone to plan
Cheers mate. Load of people love an autumn renno. Maybe an overseed is better than a full on kill off and redo! I won't be doing it again this time of year. Watched a few ryan knorr vids where he had wash 3 separate times after seeding!
Slowly slowly catchy monkey! But it looks so much better at night under the lights. 2 weeks earlier and it would be back to Wembley of the north standards!
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UA-cam is a funny old game - why are we watching you talk about your lawn? and then a sped up video of you spreading fertilizer? It’s all good material .. but it’s weird innit.
😅 but you did watch it! Not sure if it's funnier that people watch it, or the fact I film doing it, then spend hours on a crappie laptop trying to edit and upload it!
If it’s any consolation, I scarified to bare soil, leveled, seeded, top dressed with compost and fleeced first week of October. 2 weeks later and its looking similar to yours. Very patchy and some places the seed hasn’t taken at all. I too wish I had done it a month earlier. I had wash outs and a few days with frost in the morning. Looking at your video made me feel a little better as you can’t account for the weather and the missus was in my ear ‘I told you to leave it alone’ lol.
Glad to help!! Not too concerned about it though. Grass is hardy stuff and the drainage improvements where the main focus for the back and believe this has been resolved.
Hopefully yours and mine, will improve with the mild weather we are having before winter sets in.
A winter fert may help you. I'll be applying one soon.
You know Dan I would be pleased with that and it should be a good start for spring
Cheers Geoff. Want to get on with the Webb mower with it!
I feel your pain mate. So gutting after all that blood, sweat and tears to find you did not get the results you wanted. But nothing much can be done from now until next Spring as we cant change the weather.
By the end of the video it looked far more green than sand though, so not so disheartening as first thought.
As Gary Barlow sang, just have a little patience! 🤣. Always knew it was a bit risky on pure sand, and no compost, but it's coming good.. pretty happy with where it sits now. Bit of work in spring before the kids can destroy it next year !! 😂
@@TheReelMowingMowingClub nice Dan, been so mild lately also that it is sprouting up so fast.
I am so impatient, after seeing mine last year germinate within 4 days, that I want it to always be like that, but found out like your back when recently doing my mum's back garden, can't always happen. But again like you I wish I managed to get my mum's back done about two weeks before the date I did it, and think the results would have been so much better. I will have to overseed bare areas in Spring now.
Interesting hose pipe shaped growth/germination?
Very much so, suspect the hose has suppressed the germination under it?
@@TheReelMowingMowingClub Or a tidal barrier creating a seed accumulation?
Its getting there mate was bit worried at the start of the vid, good progress in this video, like you say might need an overseed in the spring like my lawn.
Slowly but surely. Hoping for a thicken up over the next few weeks before winter kicks in!
But a bit more seed next spring won't be the end of the world! A night it looks ridiculously good
looked not too shabby at the end, shame the weather did for the grass but that was an unpredictable.
The grass clippings and shredded leaves make a lovely compost that is a braw top dress...
Cheers Michael.
Raining again now! Forecast said a lovely day was expected today.
Never done compost. Father in law does when he takes my clippings to his house though!
Looking much better by the end. I’m sure it’ll come through nicely with time. Did my end of September and it’s only more looking thicker after 3 cuts and some feed
Time is key. I've had full germination in 5 days before, cutting after day 9. But hey ho. Cutting it mow will help it, and in turn that will stop all the bloody bits of sand and worm cast mud sticking to the wheels of the mower!
What type of sand did you use? Would you recommend it for a clay type lawn?
Mornign Karl. This was just washed grit sand from a local builders merchant.
My garden is on a new build and very clayey. This along with the gypsum seemed to have improved it significantly
Speaking of wormcasts, I've got some the size of mount everest
Man, this year they are ridiculously crazy
At least you're honest. I was wondering how it was coming on? I scalped mine back to dirt roughly same time as your renovation. Pre seed fertiliser, products and seed, Jack's Magic, then fleeced and watered. Bloody pigeons kept eating all the seed when the wind blew away the fleece. Fortunately for me mine has turned out great.
Haven't mowed yet as didn't want to suck up any of the seed with the Hayter rotary. Plus it just hasn't stopped raining. I've got so many worm casts this year too. Keep it going mate, it'll look great next year. Look forward to the progress on the next video 😜👌🏼
No point lying or trying to hide it. Big area, didn't water it properly, no compost topdressing all delayed establishment.
It'll come good by summer
It's certainly a good size garden. Are you using the Gruntek sprinkler 360 degrees. Great bit of kit very impressed, especially with low water pressure I have.
About 300m² in total. Got 4 of them to use with a pump.
Getting there buddy. Real shame you had the wash out at the start. 🙂
Big time. But slow and steady and all that!
That will thicken up mate snd spread over autumn and winter
Fingers crossed
It's thickening up day by day.
@TheReelMowingMowingClub you will be all good by spring...I would hit it with a bit if seaweed and little bit of iron over winter
Already had a couple of seaweed doses and a bit of iron from the granular.
Will be spoon feeding this I think though over the coming months
we had a lot of wash out was just chatting to caroline we both said we had a wash out in oct 2022 and nov 2022 and if u look in this video heading Part 20 friends lawn recorded on 14.01.23 First video of 2023 three months after seeding in oct 2022 looks little better had a alot of wash out heavy rain and lawn struggled
Bloody UK weather isn't it !!! 🤣 biggest worry will be disease in the areas where there is a load of plants fighting for space.
not bad for time of year carolines lawn reno two years ago was the same playlish friends reno 2022 heading part 15 30.10.22 video friends reno not gone to plan
Cheers mate. Load of people love an autumn renno. Maybe an overseed is better than a full on kill off and redo! I won't be doing it again this time of year.
Watched a few ryan knorr vids where he had wash 3 separate times after seeding!
It'll come Dan,but the worms are going mad this year....got lots on my little lawn
Slowly slowly catchy monkey!
But it looks so much better at night under the lights. 2 weeks earlier and it would be back to Wembley of the north standards!
@TheReelMowingMowingClub hahaha I'm sure it will
Is that stuff like molasses???
Bit of a long winder here, but
BioActive MolTurf is our award winning liquid carbohydrate.BioActive MolTurf contains naturally sourced carbohydrates and trace elements that energise the turfgrass plant metabolism and stimulates microbial activity around the root and leaves. BioActive MolTurf is a natural carbon balancer that increases the efficiency of nitrogen utilisation allowing less nitrogen to be applied. BioActive MolTurf provides a quickly available carbon food source for microbes that live around turfgrass roots and helps to reduce fungicide and fertiliser applications. Use on all turfgrass surfaces and rootzones for faster playing surfaces.
Main benefits of BioActive MolTurf on turfgrass surfaces:
Faster and improved playing surface
Promoting the availability and ready uptake of nutrients provided
Promotes the availability and ready uptake of mineral nutrients
Reduced applications of fertilisers
Increased ability to resist, and recover from, environmental stress, e.g. freezing temperatures & extended heat
Reduced disease susceptibility
Aids nematode suppression
Helps to reduce thatch build up by improving the efficiency and recycling of nitrogen and carbon by soil microbes
UA-cam is a funny old game - why are we watching you talk about your lawn? and then a sped up video of you spreading fertilizer? It’s all good material .. but it’s weird innit.
😅 but you did watch it!
Not sure if it's funnier that people watch it, or the fact I film doing it, then spend hours on a crappie laptop trying to edit and upload it!