Continuing my lawn renovation series today. I'm Core Aerating the lawn so help with compaction and scaling to help dethatch my grass. The products I use: lawntips.net/ Become a Member to get access to exclusive perks: / @lawntips
Greet vid, always easy advice and tips on how to get the job done. I’ve done my whole yard on these vids so thanks for the great content week after week.
I've just started my Reno down in Tassie, I'm doing it on the cheap and so far I've used the dethatching rake on 150m2 of lawn, all to save $50 haha Ive manually cored it before but I think I'll hire a machine again this year
I tired aerating last year to try and fix my problem of water retention, which did not work, but brilliant idea to remove plugs and sand the lawn, I'm definetly trying that this month, thank you.
Haven't started my Reno yet. Still waiting for the weather to be clear for a few days lol. It's intense the amount of water around at the moment a few years ago we where talking about drought and now it's floods. Crazy!
Great job as usual Ben. Love the corer and the depth it goes down. I am desperate to scarify and dethatch but it has been too wet here in Carluke, South Lanarkshire, I was on a golfing holiday with the guys and missed good weather. But hopefully get a break soon. Robbie gave you a wee shout out in Premier lawns, you both have similar attitudes to lawn care, brilliant.
I’m in Bathurst and waiting for temps to be a little bit warmer. It’s my first Reno so I want to play it safe haha. Plus with a baby due any day now I don’t want to get caught out with a mid reno hospital trip lol
Another great vid Ben. I think you may have touched on applying pre emergents prior to core aeration in another vid which I haven’t seen? Would love to know your experience with this or perhaps a link to vid if able? Thanks
Yea was thinking the same. The blue was more of a barrel rolling action, this was a more vertical punching corer. This one should have done a better, deeper core
Hey mate great vids been watching your channel for a long time I'm getting ready to do a Reno down in geelong area now I have 1 question, I had Kikuyu turf laid about 16 months ago and I want to level it. should I scarify and core it or should I be a bit more careful when it comes to turf it seems to have a bit of thatch but not too bad I'm more concerned about the level far too many bumps for my liking cheers for any help keep up the good work
Hi mate, I'm sure this will be in next week's vid, but is there a watering plan I should be following after top dressing with sand or just water as normal?
It only has stolons not rhizomes like green couch and kikuyu so if you cut too far into the stolons (the above ground runners)it takes a lot longer to repair and come back. Whereas green couch or kikuyu recovers very quickly because they also have rhizomes.
Doing my first ever lawn renovation. Local supplier has top dress mix which is supposedly sand, loam and chicken manure. Just wondering if this is suitable for a reno as I have dethatched and scalped. I haven't scalped excessivley. Just worried about burning what I have left.
I'm curious why you say that a prime reason to use an aerator is that it allows oxygen into the root subsystem. Plants and particularly grass don't use oxygen they use carbon dioxide, secondly they take it through their leaf system not the root. Aeration is good for so many reasons, but I don't think getting oxygen into the grass roots is one of them.
Hey mate, Grass still needs to take up oxygen in the root system. The carbon dioxide is used for photosynthesis and the oxygen in the soil is used for the plant to breathe. That’s what I learnt in tafe and I’m sure if you do some googling you can confirm 👍🏽
Hi Ben, if i am planning on a scalp top dress ect on my lawn, that is not quite all qld blue couch, but i also wanted to overseed, should i apply pgr before the Reno, in order to get it to be the dominant lawn type ? Could you advise on the time frame & amount times needed, if you think that it would require pgr to do the best job ? Thank you.
G’day Ben how long can you go from core aeration and scalp to top dress and fert? I’m in Melbourne and have been caught out with the rain and free time🤔
Personally I did it over a two weekends here in Chelsea, Melbourne, finishing last weekend when we had the great spring weather..... I did a scalp, dethatch, core aerate and then top dress. But I had been hitting it with a liquid fert mix plan for 2 months or so and the lawn was in a good state of growth when I did the above, especially now that the temps are up and being kikuyu, so it's already bounced back really strong in the last week alone especially with the rain wed-friday.
What to do about buffalo lawn thats gotten too spongy. Guessing thatch but then you say you can't scarify and dethatch buffalo, so whats the process for buffalo then.
