What about you! Welcome to "A beginner's
guide to how to overseed your lawn". I'm going to show you step by
step everything you need. Let's go........ The lawn looks great now, but eighteen
months ago it was a different story. It was covered in weed grasses. We killed it
off, and we showed you every step of the way. We put down fresh grass seed, top dressed it and soiled
it. Leveled it, fed it, watered it, watched it grow. Why overseed your lawn? Overseeing your lawn is a
really important step, and it's something that you should think about doing at least once a year,
spring and autumn. It helps stop an invasion of weed grasses and weeds coming into your lawn. It
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Our first job before we start overseeding the lawn, is to give the lawn a cut. Now depending on the
length of your grass, if your grass is quite long you might want to scalp it down, because it's
going to make the process easier. Now for a lawn like this, we'll just, we're just going to cut it at
a normal length. I have a bonus tip for you - if you want to find out the best thing to cover your new
seed with, or should you even cover your grass seed, I'm going to show you something to help you decide.
So, that's going to be towards the end of the Video. To overseed your lawn properly, if you take
your grass seed and if you just throw it down on top of the lawn, there's a good chance that
it's not going to grow. You have to prepare your lawn for it. So I'm going to
show you two different methods now. An easy way to overseed your lawn is to aerate it.
Now, whenever you aerate your lawn, you're actually creating little plant pots in the soil.
Now you don't need any expensive tools to do this, you can use a drill or a garden fork is enough.
Now obviously, for larger spaces you'll probably want to use a tool. Today we're going to be using
an aerator, but I'm going to show you how you can do small localized spots. Now the key thing is if
you're going to be using these tools, you don't want to be going too deep, so you're just creating
a small hole in the surface. Let's do that now........ You can see the holes left from the aerator,
and that's where the seed's going to go. The holes act as little plant pots in the soil.
Whenever it starts to grow it looks like this. The next tip to overseed your
lawn, is to use a spring tine rake, or else a scarifyer. To scarify your lawn, you don't
need any fancy tools, you can just use a springtine rake, and what this does is it creates
lines into the soil, and we're going to use that to seed into. So for smaller spaces you can use this,
but for larger spaces you might want to consider getting yourself a scarifyer. Now these can be hired,
or else you can pick up a small one for your lawn. Press the rake firmly into the lawn, and
use it to break up the soil or dirt. It needs to go deep enough that it creates
lines in the soil, and helps break up the surface tension below the lawn. Now let's try with the scarifyer. When's the best time to overseed?
You can overseed your lawn from spring, spring and autumn. Now if you
do it in early spring or late autumn, then you're always going to risk frost,
and that's just a chance you take. That's the lawn all cleaned up,
double scarified,, ready for some seed. Now that the waste is cleared off
the lawn you can see the lines left and this is where the seed is going to grow. So we have the lawn all cleared up, our next step
is now to seed the lawn. So let's do that now.......... If you want to find out what the
best grass seed is for your lawn i'm going to leave a Link in the Video Description. Whenever we overseed the lawn we use the
fertilizer sprayer. It is very accurate. However, if you don't have any tools like
that you could just use a builder's line and a bamboo, and and mark
your lawn out in sections. Weigh enough to do a certain area, put your seed
out and then move your area onto the next one. So, a soft brush is a good way to ensure good seed to soil contact. Whenever you're over
sowing your lawn, it's really important that you get a good contact with the, seed gets a
good contact with the soil. So let's do that........... Now, if your neighbors see you out brushing
the lawn they might think you're nuts! You don't need any tools at all to get good seed
to soil contact, you can just use your feet. Next up we have a drag mat. Now,
professional groundsmen use these, they cost two or three hundred pounds. The only thing you need for this, is a few
cable ties, a brush shaft, a length of rope and this mat. Now, I'm going to leave a Link down
in the Video Description where you can pick one of these up. These work incredibly well - and they're
a lot cheaper. This comes to less than 40 pounds. At the start of the Video we talked about
a bonus tip. Now if you want to find out the best thing to cover grass seed with
make sure to watch this Video next.
