What about you! and welcome to another Premier Lawns video. I’m Robbie from Premier Lawns, a lawn care company based in Belfast Northern Ireland. Today, I’m going to show you five simple steps to a perfect lawn. Welcome back, the five simple steps, the perfect lawn.
Now, before we begin if I can ask you to hit that like button and if you don’t already subscribe make sure you subscribe for more content like this, and hit the little bell icon so you don’t miss out any future videos. Step number one – Aerating. Aerating is the single most important and it’s the best thing you can do for your lawn . Over time your long gets compacted. All the rain we get here in Ireland really can pack down a lawn.
Even cutting the lawn will compact it. If you want to get the best out of your lawn, you need to be thinking about aerating it every year.
It’s important as it keeps a soil profile open whenever the sweat profiles open it encourages the grass to grow deeper roots and deeper roots means the plant can store more nutrient and that leads to a healthier lawn. That leads on to Step number two – Scarification. Scarification is used to remove thatch and moss out of your lawn.
To explain what thatch is – it’s old, dead organic material that’s in your lawn. Whenever you cut your grass not all of it goes into the grass box A lot of it goes back down into the lawn. Some lawns create more thatch than other lawns. Just depends on the type of lawn and the type of grass and what thatch will be in the lawn Thatch will also make your lawn very spongy to walk on.
Main trouble with thatch in your lawn, is it stops the surface from drying out so if you get a lot of rain, the water sits on the surface and it can’t penetrate down into the roots so it sits on the surface and because the water can’t get anywhere this creates the perfect conditions for the moss to grow.
Here in Northern Ireland we know all about moss ’cause it’s so damp all the time. The only way to get rid of the moss and the thatch properly is to scarify it out and your lawn will absolutely love you for it. As long as you’re scarifying at the right times of year, spring and autumn. Step number three to creating a perfect lawn is mowing your lawn. Now, I know this is basic – there’s so many people get this bit wrong and their lawn suffers as a result the golden rule never take more than a third off your lawn whenever you’re cutting the grass.
The reason for this is simple every time you cut the lawn you pull it under stress. If you take too much off the lawn it’s going to suffer, I recommend little and often that’s the key. it also pays to make sure that the blade is sharp on the lawn mower so you are always getting a clean cut. I see lots of people cut their lawn to within an inch of its life and then wonder why the lawn looks terrible.
The only thing cutting your grass short does is it encourages weeds like daisies and clover.
Improve your lawn if you just follow this one simple step raise the head of the cut of your lawn mower to nearly its highest setting but not the highest and cut it on a regular basis as you’re not cutting any more than one-third of it in any one given cut. Do this one thing and your lawn will dramatically improve and guess what’s the best thing about it it’s free I recommend that you should treat your lawn. for your lawn to look it’s best, it needs a good treatment program to be in place but I’m not really gonna get into that in this video cuz that’s a video in itself step number five – creating stripes.
I love nice stripes in a lawn and I’m gonna let you guys into a trade secret and creating the perfect lawn stripes. Double cut your lawn if you want those perfect stripes.
What I mean by that is go over the same stripes twice and this burns them in. After you cut the lawn they’ll stay visible for longer they’ll start to show up for days after you mow the lawn. If you do that’s regularly they’ll always show up even through winter. However it’s really important the don’t just always go either up or down or left or right you need to change the direction of your cut every other cut otherwise the grass starts to lie over whenever it lies over it causes things likedisease and it could even make your lawn lumpy. If you can spare the time once you’re cutting, your lawn will look a million dollars if you do it on a regular basis.
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