Using Compost As A Top Dressing To Thicken Your Lawn (4K) 

its great to see the results after 4 weeks in the same video 👍🏻 also liked the side by side comparison

This is the most useful lawn video on RU-vid. I'd be interested to see more experiments done by Allett in future. Thank you!

Keep up the great work, the lawn looks great. The best lawnmowers deserve the best lawn.

I did this just over a month ago on some patchy areas on my lawn and noticed how quickly the new grass started to grow. Putting compost over the seeds you put down also prevents the birds from eating the seeds. I didn`t use that compost roller thing you have, but now my yard looks more whole and great. My neighbor told me this morning he`s jealous of my yard. 😁

I’ve been doing something like this for years and over time it makes a massive improvement to the soil with a number of top dressings. You’ve refined my technique here with the top dressing on top however! Noted for future reference! I imagine the success is from a mixture of increased ground temperature for the seed, increased water retention and the nutrient content from the compost. A fine organic solution. Thank you! Now just to find one of those compost spreaders!

Such a clear demonstration. Straight to the point and great end results so thank you...extremely helpful!

I did this a couple of years ago on a really poor lawn. I had little gardening experience and it worked an absolute treat. I just mixed the seed in a large bucket with grass seed and sprinkled over my lawn by hand. I kept it watered and after a month had a great lawn 👌

Good to see the company MD getting out there. I found out scarifying, then overseeding and then compost helps because it stopped the fat pigeons near us nicking all the seeds. We just used compost dumped in piles and then a fiskars landscaping rake and delivered the same effect. Really like these videos gives ideas and inspiration!

Been using compost as a top dressing for years and found it really good and always produces a good thick grass

Great video. I learned from another channel to use compost to feed the lawn. Mine had recently been over-seeded in a mix with top soil and had bare patches so I hand-sowed the grass seed and spread compost over the whole lot using a broom. Hard work but good exercise. 6 weeks later it looks the best its ever been. The compost hides the seed from pigeons and helps keep the seed moist while it develops. It’s important to keep the seeds watered if no rain for a few days. It dries out quite quickly in the summer heat. I’ll repeat each autumn and spring from now on. My lawn is only 50 sq metres so I can’t justify an Allett mower unfortunately so I bought an electric cylinder mower from Homebase for £89 and works quite well but no stripes.

This is a fantastic video! I do learn a lot from it. I will going to use the way you taught to fix my lawn with the way of compost mix with seeds. Again thank you very much! John

Very helpful. Bought a spreader, making a sifter to get the junk out of the compost bought in bulk. Excited to see the results.

Wow, what fantastic results!

This is a fantastic video! I’m going to alter my overseeding plans as you had superb results. Also, having looked at the Bathgate Multi-Purpose Compost online, I think the reason why you had such good results is due to its composition. It includes Wetting Agents, a 14-16-18 Base Fertiliser, Trace Elements and Magnesium Lime. So if you’ve already got the top dressing for your lawn you could emulate that mixture to a point (possibly minus the lime), then water in the lawn with a mixture of a wetting agent and seaweed.

Thanks Austin, I’m a grounds man in Australia it’s winter now and the sports ovals always take a beating in winter but I think you are on to something with the compost and I’m going to give it a try thanks 😊

Good video. I'm following this process for a lawn that hasn't been touched in years

Good to see the company boss getting hands on with the work rather than the Blue Peter here is something prepared earlier by someone else 😎 seriously I am finding your experiments very helpful and instructional in my journey to get my lawn into a condition that deserves an Allett mower.

Outstanding video - so well explained

Great finish 4 weeks on, great effort 🙌🏽🌱

Awesome! Il be doing mine this week. Great video

Excellent demonstration thank you. I've just bought an Allett Kensington 20B four weeks ago and absolutely love it's a dream to use especially when turning with the split rear roller. Unfortunately I am having to wait 6 weeks for my scarifier and verticut cartridges but really looking forward to using them. My lawn has never looked better. Keep up the good work.

Excellent demonstration, Thanks. I'm saving up for an Allett Mower :)

i love that compost spreader. i have the same one but i overseed a freshly mowed lawn first with a drop apreader then i roll over it with a thin layer of peat moss.

What a great result. Thanks

Man i really appreciate this video. Rye for life! I always capped the overseed with pete moss. Now i will switch to compost.

Brilliant video. Learnt something new there.

Already bought my spreader, Golf Coast Lawn season time, lets get it. I'll follow your steps to the T

Thank you ever so much for this video it was so helpful I now feel my journey to a better lawn is very achievable

new to the channel, this is great stuff! thank you.

Nice advertisement for BOSCH rotary mowers 😜 Just kiddin‘ 😁 great tips! Thanks for sharing! I‘ll definitely give this a shot on my lawn 😊👍🏼

Excellent video thanks.

Holds moisture around the seeds & hides the seed from the birds - makes perfect sense.

Awesome video awesome information

🌞Compost really worked great!!

Great video I wish I could afford a compost spreader !! I love those things

A great video Austin, you have a lovely garden. I would say Allett could make these compost spreaders, and they will be built to last. I love watching your videos, you give great advice and know your stuff. Stay safe all at Regal House 👍🏻

Thank you. This is the method I will use.

Your lawn looks lovely 😊 xx

Really interesting video - it's actually really great to see actual evidence as to what's worth doing and what's not! Awesome.

Great video

Great video..

The approach is so scietific and result-orianted!

very interesting to see - i may try this out on a trial plot aswell - and implement this method in the future

Thanks; it was really interesting to see the comparison. Unfortunately, even with that tool, I'll never be a "real man"!

Jack's magic is king

Great, did you use the lawn lute on top of the compost 2nd time.

Hi great video. Can I ask what is the width of your roller spreader? 24" or 36"?

great results

I'm in Ohio. It's been my experience that sphagnum moss is the best medium to start seed on. This fall I have started two new lawns. I started one with seed spread directly over leveled, heavy clay soil and covered with a light layer of 'peat' moss. That lawn is growing like crazy. It looks professional. It looks like perfect, weedless green carpet. The cost was two bags of compressed moss. $15 dollars each. The second lawn I started the same way with the only difference being compost. A month later, and the compost started lawn, looks anemic and it is full of weeds. The cost was $200 worth of compost. I guess it depends on the area.

Can you tell me how much seed you mixed in with the bag of compost and do you have a set amount. Thanks Anthony

OMG, that's just what I need for my lawns. Thank you. It's probably too late in the season now up here (NE Scotland). Probably wait until spring 2022. Thanks 🙏👍.

Very interesting about using potting compost which will be high in nitrogen so you didn’t say which month you started as I think this treatment would be best in the Spring and not Autumn as a high phosphates fertilizer is better in Autumn what you say ?and the compost for lawn is better if it’s high peat and not all that recycled woody stuff iv just done my 2 lawns total 120 sq mts and Landzi Out Rowlawn top dressing started 7/10/21 yet to germinate thanks for Video ,,,,Grant Sussex coast

Great informative tutorial, well done. One question, did you use a peat based compost and do you think a peat free compost would work just as well?

What kind of large bushes are those in the background?

So you did not use loam first to spread before the compost?? Is it okay to spread loam first then couple of weeks later spread organic compost? I will be renting the echolawn top dresser to spread. Interesting machine. Will apply evenly and quick. !! So please advise. Thank you

I wish you also showed with peat moss next to compost.

Would it be ok or not to apply organic compost before I aerate because I can only aerate this Friday and it's going to rain alot on Thursday so I was thinking of applying the organic compost on wed late afternoon. Please advise on this. Thank you

Awesome technique of seeding using compost!!! I will definitely try your technique. I do have this compost spreader and I had used it only with peat moss. Did small debris in the compost didn't go through the mesh ? From my soil test results, I will have to use tons of compost to improve soil from next Spring. I started using Allert Liberty43 this fall. so, I am very new to reel low. I am a bit concernd with wood chips and all from the compost for reel mowing.

Hi…what would be the water management with this process

Hmm can i use a compost spreader to level my lawn?

Landscaper done my new lawn. 3/4 acre about 5 months ago. More weeds than grass.

How much compost and seed do I need to cover my 2500 SqFt yard? USA Las Vegas NV

Link to compost spreader (and a review?) please.

Thanks for a very informative video, it's convinced me to start using compost as a top dressing. I'd also like to know what brand of compost was that please? I've just looked at what we currently have from our local garden centre and it's very lumpy, damp and certainly nowhere near as friable as the one in the video!

I'm doing this tomorrow. I need to roll the ground afterwards, otherwise the rain will wash the seed down the hill. (my lawn is on a slope) However I am very worried that the soil will stick to the roller because it is wet. What can I do?

Thanks for the video. Can you tell me your seed of choice and supplier please thanks

BIt concerned about the seeding maths in this episode, Keith ....... you say "this area ia about 50 sq meters, I want a seed spread of 50 grams per meter, so I need 250 grams of seed" ......... ???????? .......... surely 50 grams of seed per sq meter of lawn for 50 sq meters is 2,500 grams of seed required ??????? ......... happy to stand corrected. 🙃🙂

What brand of compost did you use?

Tried a simular test myself for whatever reason with compost higher germination rate. Hard to beat rye grass for a green lawn.

Really useful video. Though I am not sure about the cheap equipment. Lutes are a hundred pounds and compost spreaders three hundred!!!! I think I will try a stick on a pole....

I noticed you did not rake up the ground at all to loosen the soil before putting seed down. Is that not necessary?

It would be interesting to compare a weed free quality top soil as well as compost

The way I like to look at a lawn is adding soil biology is a must healthy soil equals healthy grass sand doesn’t really hold much soil biology

Looks fab, great work. you didn't mention if the compost was peat free?

Do overseed with any red fescue? To get that soft and comfy lawn?

Hello. Thanks for the video. Just wanted to understand the amount of watering needed after doing the above. We have our automated sprinkler that runs for 8 min in the morning and and 8 min in the evening. Is this sufficient or does it needs to be increased or decreased. Any information in this regard will be very useful

The Landzie compost spreader is the best piece of kit I’ve ever bought. £250 we’ll spent 👍🏻

Hi, can I just double check the maths on the seed; at about 4'30" you said that the area was 50m2 and going with the conventional overseed rate of 50g/m (not sure if that was per m2) and therefore needed 250g of seed. I must be missing something! By my maths that would be 2500g (ie 2.5kg) of seed. Help!!!

I've just tried this Austin with bent grass. My question is once it germinates and appears say an inch and a half, my front roller just flattens the shoots rather than cut - should I try and cut it with a light rotary before trying to cut it short? or use the auxillary wheels?

where do you get the seed - that's what I'm wondering. B & Q and the like sell branded mixes, but I'm after a top quality pure/100% rye.

Hi; with the ratios you said, 50l = 30m2 roughly. But you go over it twice, one with the seed and one as a topping. So is it therefor 100l to do 30m2 for the mix and the topping? Thanks

Did you seed and then overseed With compost just a few weeks after the initial seeding?

Can I ask what time of year was this done?

When will allett make a 20" battery powered Kensington?

The best part about compost. Stops the bloody pigeons!

Drill a bunch of small holes in the metal strips of the landzie..

What am I missing here? 50grams a m2 for 50m2 is 2500 grams? That didn't look like 50 m2 anyways.

Is this something that can be done in the Fall? September?

Never seen anyone mix seed with the compost!!

Wish I could afford a compost spreader.

Great video, thank you for sharing. Can I ask if there is a cheaper way of doing the same without the need to buy expensive tools? £250 for the mesh spreader and over £100 for a lawn lute. I only have a small lawn and can't really justify that expense.

Where is the lawn level from? I can’t find them in UK stores

what about watering?

Garden centres > supermarkets - sorry but have to support them and they often have offers. Compost helps retain moisture and is free draining, your native soil probably dries quickly.

"We're not going to use any expensive equipment" That's because he already prepared the lawn with his $5,000 Allett before making the video

And I don’t know where to buy seeds without weeds. Even after use preemergent, still struggling with some weeds, pulling them out.

I'm sire I heard him say 50 grams a m2 then 250g for whole 50m2

What was the name of the seed or which type was it thanks

So you added more seed and compost and got better results.

I thinks theres an error with the quantity required (at 4.20) 50g/m2 for 50m2 is 2.5kg grass seed