How to LEVEL a NEW LAWN Using TOP SOIL - Complete Lawn Renovation
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- In today's video, I show how you can level a new lawn from scratch using top soil!
In the previous part, I killed the lawn using Roundup. If you'd like to check it out, head over to my channel.
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Step 1:
How to Kill Your Old Lawn
• How to Kill Your Old L...
Step 2:
How to Level a New Lawn Using Top Soil
• How to LEVEL a NEW LAW...
Step 3:
How to Seed a New Lawn
• How to Seed a New Lawn... - Jak na to + styl
We always get asked about this, great tips!
Nice work and some really good pointers to take on board. Thanks for the great informative video 👌🏻
Cheers!
Really enjoy your videos! Two this weekend! Good going!
Cheers! 👍🏻
always got great videos. thanks
I completely feel youre pain man ive done exact same completely renovated my front and back lawn they looked near perfect until afew months later i got same issue full of poa annua but until i reseeded ive never had this issue before i can only put it down to been in seed..ive bought a verticutter and to be fair its helping alot but if ive not got it more under control ill be doing same as you and restarting all over again..keep vids coming it really helps us fellow gardners
It's a never ending battle with poa! Drives me mad.
I know I'll get some coming back, but I'm determined to keep on top of it better this time!
Brilliant video well done. Well i suppose it's a good workout got to get your cardio in for the day.😁👍👍
Nice one!
It's a great excuse to have a few beers to recover in the week! 🤣
@@NoviceGardener yep sure is mate😁👍
You know what you're doing that's for sure. I've a bigger area to do and I'm DREADING it ! (I'm not as young as you) Can i ask you what side round you used the lawn lute ?
The flatter side or the thinner one ? Whenever i use the thinner side i find it digs in and moves too much around creating unevenness. Really enjoy your videos
Cheers!
It's quite labour intensive when you get into it, especially if you've got a larger area! It can become a full day job sometimes!
I always use the flatter end just because of hat you said, you don't have to have it digging in to the soil.
Once the next vid is out I'll have everything I need to do my master. Master procrastination over here
Your the master... ?... well I created the master programme.. im the king of Kings with procrastination..
Cool vid mate, have you ever thought of painting the wall at the back, or get the artist that do Liverpools paintings around anfield, don’t think the wife would be too happy tho 😬
Oh, I've suggested that already, not long after we won the league! 🤣 Didn't go down great!
I've got a plan for it, it's not just finding the time and the money!
Another great video buddy… just wondering and I’ve not tried it yet, but would you’ve pulled out more grass using the rake attachment on the scarifier and then. Going over again with the scarifier attachment. Like you say the dead grass will decompose, but will it give an instant thatch layer. I’m probably overthinking it… keep um coming bud. Very much enjoy them 👍
Cheers!
It's a good point, I'm not sure to be honest. It may have been better to do a few more passes, but fingers crossed it doesn't impact too much 🤞🏻
Love your before and after results in all your videos so looking forward to the end results.
Bit off the topic I am a bit of a novice also, if I have a mossy lawn which hasn't been scarified last season, if I scarify now or at any time do I then always have to reseed? I have a 200sqm lawn 😅
Cheers!
It depends how harshly you've scarified. If you've ripped a lot out and it's looking bare, I would give it a heavy over seed. It's a big job, but as long as you do it once a year, the lawn will look great!
@@NoviceGardener thanks @Novicegardener
How thick do you layer the topsoil for sowing seeds? My garden is about 42m2 and it is being recommended on the calculator that i have 9 ton bags to cover at 100mm. Cheers mate for any advice
Main aim if for the top 4 inches. The roots won't often go much lower. 9 ton bags will give you a very decent bed of soil though!
I want to put down some stepping stone as a path to the cabin out the back. When in the process would you do this? Prior to reseeding or after the grass has fully started to grow?
Personally, I'd do it once the grass has come through because it will give the soil time to settle whilst the grass comes through.
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Hello lad. I’m laying a new lawn but the edge is bendy. Isit best to lay the rolls sideways or in lines against the edge?
I'd go in lines, just make sure that you stagger them.
Great job. What seed are you using? Germinals A5 is the best rye I have ever used as it's produces more leaves per plant and has about 60% the blade width of others. It's also very tolerant of low mowing down to 4mm.
I've gone with A1 Lawn. I'm hoping to get a proper short lawn once I've got a cylinder mower just so I can get it really short.
Awesome. How low can you get now? @@NoviceGardener
great video as usual
Nice one!
Hi, great job. What size in metres squared is your lawn and how many tonnes of soil did you purchase initially. Was it 5 tonnes? Subscribed!! Thanks. Love from Scotland, ❤ X.
It's about 10-12sqm. I only used half a ton on this, but the more you can put down, the better!
@@NoviceGardener Thank you! 😊
Great video but very labour intensive. Let me know if you ever need any help. 👍
It's graft in the sun, also! It's a good job I don't have a big lawn to work with!
What's the best way to remove the over spilled soil on the stones?
Just have to get it out by hand. I have a tendency after projects like this to leave it for a while out of sheer laziness! But I do get round it it eventually! 😅
Some of these tools are so expensive,might have to find another way of levelling my lawn lol
You can hire that Landzie Lawn Level
@ryangreen419 oh OK thats brilliant,am renovating next year so I will look for one to rent,thank you
Some of them are pricey, took a couple of years to build up everything. And I thought lawn care would be a cheap hobby when I got into it! 😅
@NoviceGardener oh mate,lawn care is very good and relaxing but very expensive,worth every penny in the end thou
Would this still work without putting topsoil down? I have put glyphosate on my front and back lawns, all the grass is now dead, so going to scarify next, but can't really afford loads of top soil, so was just going to put new seed down, and cover with compost, but my concern is even though the grass is now dead from glyphosate, the roots are occupying the soil space, so would be no room for new seed to germinate and get space in the ground, what do you think? Thanks mate.
It will work with just getting some new seed down with a top dressing. Shouldn't need to buy top soil if you do it that way 👍🏻
@@NoviceGardener thanks mate, but I found that out already🤣🤣🤣🤣I sowed the seed last Sunday front and back, put a light coating of jack's magic over it, and just 6 days later it has all germinated and sprouting a good few mm already, probs in about another week it will be all green with no bare patches and ready for its first mow in about two to three weeks, before taking and seeding,I put my weed burner all over it, so it burnt away any remains of the dead grass and weeds, so was total brown soil then, before I seeded🥳🥳🥳🥳
@markslade9722 nice one! Weather should be good for it this week too with the rain we’re expecting! Hope all goes well over the next few weeks! 👍🏻
@@NoviceGardener yeah thanks mate, except for today, the last five days have been hot and dry, but luckily I have two linked water butts, so been watering it daily f.o.c, my butts got fully empty by last night, but not far off full again now after all the rain, but shouldn't need to water the lawns at all with the forecast for the next week. I used Johnson's J Premier pitch seed with gromax, 100% p.r.g mix of five different cultivars, same seed used at loads of football grounds, so hoping for great results, and now totally weed free🥳🥳🥳🥳 keep up the great vids!!!
Whats the deal with your box hedges mate? Are you guys purposely cutting them back? Thought they’d be much bigger by now
It's the dog! One side of the wall is growing really well, but the side in front of this lawn is where the dog wees every time we let him out. The nitrogen in his wee is doing a good job at killing them unfortunately!
Great video. What’s the best way to send you a pm?
Nice one!
Just ping an email over to my email 👍🏻
@@NoviceGardener where can I find your email address?
Instead of killing the grass off with weedkiller, would it not of been better to hire a de turfer, then rotovate the soil
It would take up too much of the soil that's already there, but it could be done if you've already got quick a thick top soil layer that doesn't have too much clay.
Better to burn killed off grass so to completely kill any remaining seed heads, these weed grass seeds will germinate even after roundup. Saying that, even if you do this, you will still import many weed seeds from new topsoil. POA will always win..
It will, but I'm determined to beat it this time (which may be a fools hope!)
What’s the white shyt on the brickwork? Ruins a nice garden you put effort into
I'm planning to put up a venetian fence, it's just having the time (and the money!)
Lol, I do t know why anyone sells a basket with a scarifier - useless!
I agree! You get about one strip done and it fills!