Saving The Lawn || What’s Happened To My Grass? 🌱🌱🌱
Apr 20, 2021
Another lesson learned ... look after the grass!! My lawn is so patchy, it looks dreadful because I didn’t look after it like you’re supposed to! It was so lush and beautiful this time last year, so it’s time for some repair work.
First I’m mowing (what’s left of) it, then giving it a really hard rake to scarify it and take off any moss and dried grass. After that I dug hundreds of holes into the “lawn” to give it some aeration. And finally a really good long water.
That’s all just the first stage and I’ll go out tomorrow and get some grass seed, follow all the instructions on the box, sow the seed and keep it well watered. And of course I will make sure to look after it properly in future.
Oh ... and I also relaid all my stepping stones ... twice!
Also in this video Richard has started phase one of his new Worksop project and gives an update!
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Janette, The Enthusiastic Gardener
Hello everyone, it's Jeanette again from Enthusiastic Gardener. It's very chilly today,
it's zero degrees, so I need to get working to warm myself up. I have been moving things around
in the garden, we've had pedestals in place, the pedestals moved, we've had little ornaments
dotted all over the place and then I've moved them, I've moved some plants around because
one minute I like something and then the next minute I look at it again and think nah.
So quite a few things have changed but you will not have seen the changes because I've never been
filming it but one of the things that I need to decide is on my stepping stones and as you can
see it's been a good thing that Richard's not around to help because as you know he's doing
his project which we'll see an update in a moment, he's doing very well but I laid all the
stepping stones going this way and that took me a while because of my issues with OCD, it took a
while and funnily enough if Richard had been around to help he probably would have put them in
which now I'm looking at it I'm thinking they're going in the wrong direction because really we
access to go that way. So now I've got to take them all up again and reposition them but it's
not a bad thing because I need to sort the lawn out and as you can see here the lawn I don't know
why it was so lush and gorgeous last year and the year before but this year I don't know what's
happened so I suppose I didn't look after it, I never fed it and fertilized it and all those
things that you're probably supposed to do, that's a good lesson learned. So I'm going to
take the stepping stones up, I'm going to mow the lawn and then I will scarify it, I'm going to
dig holes all over it with the fork, get some aeration, I've watched loads of videos of what
to do and then I'll get some grass seed and I have to figure some way of stopping the birds
eating all the seed which no doubt they will do. The dogs are not going to be happy with that of
course because their little precious lawn is diminishing, it seems monthly and anyway so now
I'm going to probably put rows of string all over it and they won't be able to get on it at all
which is that or turf and I don't want to go for turf, I can't do that by myself, I could do the
seeds by myself and we do have lawn edging, that core still edging that I took off which was
already there and I've ordered some more but that's going to go around the edge but of course
I can't do that by myself, that is very hard work and I need Richard for that but there's no rush
so it's fine. So I'm going to get on and do my job, Richard has been working very hard
in the garage, he's doing amazingly well and we'll show you that. In fact let's go over to him,
this was him at the end of the day before yesterday, it has advanced since then but
this is the day before yesterday. Right day two, what did I do yesterday? Right
if you shine up there, you see that light up the top there? Oh I can see cobwebs. Yeah
now that light has just been wired into a switch over this side which you will see.
I've started boarding the floor so I can work, it's easier to work up there
and now I have actually got a loft ladder.
Then come up, that's the switch for the light, this is part of the storage area,
that's going to be boarded at 600mm the other side and this is going to be boarded at 1200mm
which is more than adequate. Loads of space to store a load of rubbish.
It's amazing Rich, it's going to be so useful and all that rubbish down there can go.
Yes day two, so I didn't do bad, I was quite pleased yesterday with the amount I've got done
and let's crack on as they say. Now I'm just going to dig tons of holes,
the stepping stones in place and I'm actually putting them in myself
because I have no help from my main helper as you know but I'm doing okay.
Okay so I have finished, I have put the holes, as you can see there are holes everywhere,
no more walking on the grass and I've done it all the way over there as well.
Whoops, stepping stones are in, there you go, evidence of the holes. Stepping stones are in,
I might give it all a nice water. I really am exhausted, I was wondering why I don't have a
hobby such as oil painting or something relaxing. I have to be digging and wearing myself out and
my elbows, I have weak elbows and I've done something to my knee recently, I'm getting old.
Anyway I think I will give it all a good water then tomorrow I'm going to go out and get some
seed, put some seed on so I'll be back tomorrow to finish off what has been an exhausting process.
It had better work. Anyway I think I'm going to leave it here for now, it looks so beautiful in
the sunshine, I'm trying my best with it, we shall see what happens. Anyway thank you so much for
watching, I'm Jeanette, I am The Enthusiastic Gardener and take care in your gardens and
have fun and I will see you next time. Bye for now, bye.