How to Renovate your lawn - a 4 minute walk through
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
- A quick 4 minute walk through on how we do a professional lawn renovation so that you can pick up some hints and tips to do your own. #aerate #aeration #business #garden #grass #grassseed #hack #independentbusiness #iron #lawncarebusiness #lawnrenovation
Hi top video! Which topdresser is that? I use a compost spreader but I also have a bannerman mini topper. Looks like you could get a fair bit in yours. Keep up the good work
Hey Shaun, thank you. The top dresser is a bannerman powered top dresser and I’ve designed a drag mat to go behind it. It works well. I can get 4 bags of F4 in it and it’ll give me about 50m2. It’s a good bit of kit.
I’ve also just got a eliet power seeder too, which negates the need for dressing - especially good on lawns that don’t need a heavy Reno, great results with that too.
@@TheLawnologist cheers for that. I need to expand my tools for larger lawns. These do sound interesting (not getting any younger lol)
Hello!
Please help!
After applying sand top dressing (half m3 /100m2) and smoothing it with a leveling rake, I noticed that no matter how I try to level the area, there remain tender, thin and weak horizontally lying blades of grass under the sand. Should I worry about them, or will they come out after a few days? They emerge as a result of a water jet (or water sprayed from half a meter away), but this slightly erodes the effect of leveling because it re-excavates the area filled with sand between the larger clumps of old grass, and can also displace upturned seeds and fertilizer particles. So far, I have applied only half of the planned amount of top dressing, I don't dare to spread more, I would like to wait until the grass grows a little (I cut it into short pieces before aerating the lawn). At the same time, I don't think I can wait too long, because I sowed fast-germinating seeds, and once the new grass comes, it shouldn't be necessary to loosen the soil. What do you advise?
Hi - tough on. I would just wait and see what happens. We’ve had a lot of rain and it’s sounds like you may have had some seed displacement with watering too. I’m not a huge fan of dressing with sand for these reasons.
No harm in adding a bit more seed. But be gentle with the watering.
Great informative video. What type of scarifier do you use. I have a Stihl RL540 but thinking of getting a bigger machine?
Thanks so much 🙏 I prefer to you a smaller scarifier and have two on a lawn - commercially it makes us more efficient but the main reason is that we can cope with undulations easier and better. The wider the scarifier the harder it is to deal with the natural lumps and bumps in the lawns that are often seen domestically. Hope that helps.
@@TheLawnologist Thanks very much for that advice.