What about you - today's  video is all about aerating,  scarifying, over seeding and top dressing.
The work is being done to let the air down into the lawn and help remove some of the thatch ,
then the sand will really help with the drainage
then we'll overseed it with a  hundred per cent fescue
to thicken up the lawn
Usually whenever we aerate lawns, we tend to go a bit quicker
but because we are topdressing we want to create a lot of holes in the ground
to get the sand down into the soil profile.
You can see  on the video just how many cores per square metre are coming out.
Huge number.  This is really,  really good for the lawn.
It'll help get the sand down into the profile.
The aerating is really really good to relieve
compaction and there obviously to remove
some thatch from the lawn  as well. This
machine really does pull a lot of plugs
whenever  you are holding it
back
just with the videoing and working it
could be very time-consuming and so
setting up the camera and stuff so
unfortunately  Ididn't that get the camera
set up for the start of the scarifying but
to show you this is the first pass on the lawn.
usually on the finer lawns I wouldn't be
as hard but as we're top dessing,
overseeding today
I was able to really get into it and get
some get a lot of thatch out of the lawn.
A double pass on a Iawn like this can
be really hard on it,  so it's a it's a
sort of double-edged sword about
how hard you go wouldn't so as you  don't
lose the  purpose of the grass you can afford
to be just that wee bit  harder on it.
On our  visit  yesterday we were really
lucky with the weather
The sun was shining down, makes all
the difference in the world whenever you're scarifying on a nice sunny day
and the cores and
the debris drys up pretty good and you
can cleared up very fast and it's also
very good obviously for the top dressing to
come later on the video so as you can
see here I'm just taking my time and going
over this here double pass
 
diagonals going across roads then
it's a lot harder ion yourself if you
don't want to be just as hard
bring your lines a bit closer together
the way I'm doing here iand try going straight
across it. So I must say this customer's
really good  he definitely passed the
tea test with copious amounts of tea
over the . . . .
so the reason we are topdressing this lawn today is just  to try and keep the
profile open and open it up a bit
yeah using a hundred per cent sports sand
not always what I would do for the majority of lawns  it's not that
suitable most lawns I  prefer to use
a 70/30 mix or hundred percent soil
sand is inert and there's no benefit
really to the soil but what it does do
it will help with the drainage this here is
a sport sand so if you look at it under a microscope,
it's round in nature
the big difference between this and plastering sand buider's sand
plastering sand is angular in nature
and it's used to make  clay bricks so it 
compacts down the sports sands are
washed and they're round and they don't
compress down and that's a real big
difference. You'll hear a lot of people
say about using builder's sand, again not
suitable because it's usually full of
lime and clay and it's not great.
So I'm just coming to the end of this pile
here. It's important that any time
you're top dressing a lawn not to leave it
in lumps cuz it can make it really hard
to matt in and you just want it to be
nice and even across the whole lawn
across the whole surface
I went away for some lunch  and then for
we came back
half an hour later the sand had all dried
which makes cleaning up an awful lot easier.
This tool we are using here is called a dragmat
and it's just like a
big steel - the easiest way to
describe it it's just like a carpet.      It just pulls all
the sand into the holes then that
helps level out undulations and stuff
in the lawn which is really good
Young Cameronin there walking beside he's
just walk around looking for any stones
that might have been in the sand. After
this was complete we also give it a feed . 
 It's also worth pointing out that it was
treated with iron and seaweed about  two weeks
before we started all this work. So if
you have enjoyed the video please leave
us a comment down below
I'm very happy with Robbie's service on a very sunny day
hopefully lawn which is pretty good to
start off with it'll be even better in about two or three weeks time. and I wanted a long
term good effect on it because there's
been too much thatch and I wanted for a
long time I wanted to get all the time
all the time in the new year so
hopefully with all that work on the
coming up immaculate in three or four
weeks
