It's time to take back control of your LAWN - the recovery starts TODAY!
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2024
- In today's video, I show you the simple steps I've taken so far to improve the shady lawns in my back garden!
If you lawn is in the shade all day and you've found that the winter has left it patchy and waterlogged, then stick around on this channel because I'll be showing you everything you can do to improve it! 
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mate your lawn looks like mine. Battered like never before. We've had the wettest start of the year ever and my lawn is a mud bath. Keep the good videos up as it offers good advice and promise to get our lawns looking decent again. Hard to see right now so cheers for the positivity.
My mindset is to remember that it takes as long as it takes. No blagging the reality of starting with a rough lawn!
Cheers 👍🏻
Really enjoy your videos that show ‘real uk lawns’ and the reality of dealing with a horribly wet autumn and winter. Great advice as always.
Cheers 👍🏻
Like others have said, you might be flogging a dead horse with this - it looks like you have an issue with drainage and you’d benefit from a high sand top dress and overseed with a fescue. I’d get a core sampler to check what you’re dealing with under the surface, especially if this is on a new build site
Thank you for posting this video. I have a yard that looks like this. Always looking for a fix for my yard.
Can't wait for when your lawn start growing again and seeing those stripes popping again,great video mate
Nice one!
Just started my lawn recovery today, thanks to your videos and advice.
Nice one! Hope it goes well over the next few weeks! 🤞🏻
Just started an acre lawn treatment,glad its poets day😴😄
My lawn has turned into a mud bath this winter went from looking like wembley to Glastonbury within a month, never happened before so frustrating.
Great advice about the miracle grow autumn feed to give the lawn a kick start before the spring feed. Makes perfect sense once you explained about the lower nitrogen levels. Quick question…..Is the autumn feed readily available so early in the year?
I have a two year old lawn that looks similar to yours. Maybe a bit more muddy. I’ve decided to take 1/2 of it and give it to a new area for flowers. Will start the project when the ground is at less risk of compacting.
It’s a good idea, I know a few who have done similar
Need to start mine soon. I’m in the North West, guessing from your accent this garden isn’t a million miles away?
Need to get the weed and feed down as well as my first mow (I know there needs to be 5 days between the two) and I’ve just picked up a scarifier as that desperately needs doing too.
Anyway fairly large garden (about 3 times the size of this garden), south facing and at the mo is quite muddy and covered in moss. 😔
On the plus side it’s in the sun all day as no buildings nearby casting a shadow.
Anyway was thinking mow in the next few days, weed and feed at the beginning of April then scarifier poss a week or two later (with mows inbetween of course).
Might be worth getting rid of the Rye and trying a fescue / bent grass mix given the winter shade you have in the back. I Killed mine off last year put down a fescue / bent mix and my lawn has faired really well over the winter, some food for thought
It’s not a bad shout. Definitely something I have considered. Always went with hard wearing, but may need to switch things up. Food for thought 🤔
Was thinking the same, as overseeded with creeping fescue and bent due to have a dog and it defo appears stronger and harder wearing than rye.
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Great video. That weeding by hand is backbreaking work. There's usually more weeds than you think 😢
That’s very true! I’m almost glad that I don’t have a big lawn sometimes! 😅
The only solution I have found that works is to dig it all out then replace the heavy soil with rootzone and sandy loam as those will never waterlog or compact. I tried aerating and filling the holes with sand top dressing but that made no difference. You will always get wedgrass. The only way to keep it out is to plant denser creeping grassess like brown top bent's / fine fescues with the added benfit that they require far less light. They are not as hard wearing as rye, but ryes are not suitable for shaded areas and will die off on their own even without any foot traffic.
Would the same work by aerating and then building up a couple of inches above?... I'm in a similar position, but I've got the option of being able to just keep adding more soil on top.
It’s something I’ve thought about. I’ve just had a tonne of top dressing delivered this week. Going to use it when renovating at the end of the month.
Water will still waterlog under it. Roots can go down 8 or more inches. You want to avoid layers of different soils and instead remove as much of the rocks and clay then mix the sandy rootzone / loam into the next few inches so that even when damp you can squish it in your hand, and it will still fall apart. You only ever need to do it once so it's best to take your time with it@@Justanotherwilliam
@@stevenbelcher5658mind me asking mate... is it expensive to do? I'm guessing you can hire a mini digger and do a lot of it yourself?
I dig it out with a shovel. The cost is getting the soil removed and buying the rootzone and loam.@@martinlogan8329
I don't know much about this but have you considered using shade tolerant seed specifically in those tricky areas and then use your normal seed on the remainder?
I have, but in previous years, the lawns have been great. This time last year, they were looking ok. Just a tough winter. But I have considered a shadier mix.
This is the problem with rye grass seed mixes which were basically developed for football pitches. Which are ripoed up and replaced every season so not sustainable at all . Fescue/bent mixes are more native and stand the u.k winters better. I switched to these seed mixes a few seasons ago and to be honest my lawn looks better this year than ever .
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@@wiktorpoliszczuk1372 What's funny.
@@andylees136 funny is , talking about grass seeds,,all seeds are good and perfect for uk land
@@wiktorpoliszczuk1372 yeah agree, but some not for long term lawns only for the short term and get ripped up and reseeded every year.
@@andylees136 get ripped up and reseeded every year.--you are wrong about it again,,,,no grass ,not lawn need to be reseeded ,when you care properly for the soil,, the soil needs more soil amendments than fertilizer ,,and we create problems
Enjoy watching the videos. I'm currently renovating the front lawn. We have a small ash tree on the front but also partial shade...just wondering what the best grass seed mix would be. I was looking at the a1 multipurpose, let me know your thoughts
Cheers 👍🏻
You can get a shady mix, but it entirely depends on how much time it spends in the shade. If it’s in the sun for most of the summer, one of the other mixes might be best 👍🏻
Yeah, we have a little buxus hedging in front of lawn and I need to see from the summer sun, how much the sun is blocked on the grass because of it, similarly to the Bush you have on your front lawn. The front lawn never has foot traffic therefore, I wonder if I should just be safe and go for a shade mix as that will still like the sun. Although, the a1 multi purpose has like 50% strong creeping red fescue which likes the shade too, correct me If I am wrong
From memory, it's 40% dwarf rye grass, 50% creeping red fescue and something else so I think that would be a good mix to cover off both sun and shade
Glad to see I'm not the only one with a mudbath lawn. Just two days of sun is all I want - is that too much to ask??? Take care!
Same! 😅
quick question on your electric Hayter lawn mower. do you recommend or is there another make / model you would suggest? I have a Harrier 48 and its fantastic but for my lawn its a sledgehammer to crack a nut and also tears the moist lawn up with its metal roller due to its weight.
You’re bang on about it being the rear roller and weight! The electric Hayters are certainly lighter, but probably a mower without the roller would do less damage.
Hopefully these lawns dry in the next few weeks! 🤞
Mines not looking too bad,but after some advice,it's going to need an over seed,so should I scarify before adding a pre seed fertiliser and top seeding?
Yep, scarifying first 👍🏻
Is that a landsie tip on sprayer?, i reseeded with pyrenial rye grass and got alot of die back,overseeding with a traditional greens mix,bent and fescue...
Nope, it’s jus the nozzle that came with the Oregon sprayer
That lime deposit on the red brick wall would do my head in. What about lawn sand to help dry it up ? Our winters are so long and wet, it would break anyone's heart. Roll on the bit of sunshine 🌞.
It does my head in too! Putting a flower bed up there soon to hopefully soften the brick too!
Great vid were can i get the fertiliser from
Cheers 👍🏻 I get mine from A1 Lawn
Shade causes die back in grass, i have the same problem
I ripped my lawn up and block paved it. Iv never looked back. Get it ripped up and chuck it the skip.👍
Struggling to get my first cut on the lawn due to it been soaken and it still raining come the weekend
Would like to get the seaweed on so would you recommend cut first?
Should be ok this week with it being drier - hopefully anyway!
I’ve only got a hover mower. Do I need to ditch it or can I start mowing with it even though there’s a lot of moisture in the soil?
I’d hang on until it’s less moist.
You thought about putting stones or slabs in gje shade area
We’ve got an idea for the right hand side where it gets no sun, just need the money and time! 😅
What is the best topsoil that's selling out there?or any topsoil will do,am planning a massive overall of my lawn including scarifying and aerating
When I did mine a couple of years back, I got the topsoil from a local farm. Really cheap with it just being dumped on the drive. Ideally a sandy mix, 50/50 would be great.
I’ve just bought a load of top dressing to renovate at the end of the month.
Rootzone
The pattern of that die back looks like a leatherjacket infestation to me.
You beat me to it.
What lawn mower do you use?
Hayer Hawk 36 and Bosch cordless
Get a manual aerator,or use a fork.
Let it too allow to breath and drain.
Definitely - got it on my list for next few weeks 👍🏻
Thinning like that can only mean you’ve got too much rye grass in there. Yes shading causes thinning but not usually on that scale. I have similar shaded conditions but have more of a fescue mix. It really shouldn’t be thinning as bad as that mate over winter, it’s too much
Thumb Nail says ‘where to start’, I’d hazard a guess at by not standing in your garden in the middle of winter on sodden grass in flip flops!, doh.
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Spring starts 21st march
Ditch the rye dude. The rye is lie. :)
What are lawns good for ? No biodiversity, no insects, no nothing.
What a stupid point of view….They are good for the kids and dog to play around on in the summer, also enhances the look of your house. Do you have a mini meadow in your back garden?, I’d be complaining about the eye sore it would be
You need to learn about why grass species die, why some are designed to die and be a cash cow to novice's. You are all sold this con. Wrong grass species that dont last more than 6 months. Worse when you have wooden or concrete borders as you only allow water to go downwards. Take our online learning course and you may learn the right way.