Have you got LOW SPOTS in your lawn? Here's the BEST FIX
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2024
- Have you got LOW SPOTS in your lawn? Today I show you how to do it properly without leaving a big pile of soil behind which looks a mess and will leave a undesirable reminder of the low spot that you used to have.
The tools you will definitely need today are a half moon edging tool and a spade and or shovel. Optional extras that you could use today like I have is a tape measure, a string line some garden canes or sticks and a turf box and a saw,
Follow this video for a step by step guide on how to fix a low spot in your lawn, and if you like the video please hit that like button and please subscribe to my channel.
#lowspotfix #lowspotsinyourlawn #levelyourlawn
19:10 "No BS on this channel!" Indeed, that's why we love you Dan! 😁
I'm from the US my friend the San Francisco Bay Area. I don't always understand what your saying but I really like your work ethic and appreciate your channel. My lawn is a big and it's a mess all over. I just did a major overhaul of my two front lawns.
I am American as well. Just watch more videos eventually you will understand what he is saying
This did make me smile as I did the same to my front lawn 3 weeks ago (ground sunk a foot after the removal of a tree stump two years ago). I didn’t use the Pythagorean theorem to cut a square but it worked and very please with the result - it took 4 barrow loads of soil to raise it up to the correct level. Please keep the vids coming.
what an absolute G you are Dan! love this
That is amazing Daniel. Superb mate
Top class that Dan.
Awesome video. I like the way you explain that things are hard work. That's the truth if you want to do things properly. Subscribed!
Great work Daniel 👌
That was absolutely fascinating! I have never seen this before! Well done no BS on this channel!🤣🤣🤣
I did say you wont of seen this before lol unless you went to myserscough,
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert that is a fact!! Very cool technique thank you for sharing
Excellent Daniel! I am going to do this on my rollercoaster lawn!
5:50 another way to check if it's square is to buy a bag of square crisps and if you can fit one in each corner you no your well squared 👍
Thank you… so useful, had always tried the easy way as you had mentioned and not had any luck.
Glad to be of help
We used to fill in the bowlers footmarks on pristine cricket squares by lifting with a fork and inserting loam to get a level. Water very heavily after.
Hard work but worth it, great job Daniel.
Yeah no easy way to do this
Dan, mind blown!
Great work, and can see the other side of the road coming on really well. 👏👏👏
More to come! Yes the over the road bit gunna be really nice as seeds had a lot of water
A masterclass in lawn leveling, from the master himself 📐👍
Top work as always
Nice, clean edges!
I need to level some hollows on my front lawn, in a new build, that the builder "turfed". I dread to think what's under it.
Would you recommend to use gravel like you did here, or smaller gravel, or soil then relay the turf?
Great to see you using the 3 4 5 square. I used to use it for putting marquees up straight but it had never dawned on me to use on the lawn.
Yeah good isnt it
Many moons ago I had to help my dad lift two 40 meter bowling green edges that had sunk using the exact same method. Bloody hard work but he did pay me £20 a day so I was happy 😃
20 quid happy days good money that
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert 🤑
Thank you Daniel 👍🏻
My pleasure!
This is amazing idea and I tend to do this!!! I wonder if that area will cause extra heat stress during dry season due to the stones being used underneath. It’s great drainage but when it’s dry, will the lack of water retention affect the grass??
No it was ok the lines of the turf did shrink a little during the drought but the grass survived and you would never know id done it now its had 6 month to bed in
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert Great and Thanks!! Will be trying it 👍👍👍
Love your content pal. It’s inspired me this year to crack on. I’ve watched a few of your vids and I don’t ever see you aerating your lawns. How do you stand on this one?
Crikey you are new, those who followed over the past years know me and that i believe its a waste of time on the domestic lawn, all you will get is blisters and a sore hip
Your best video yet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I can’t work out if it was meant to be funny but certainly made me chuckle. Especially the bit with the perfect square corners, the 100cm divided into 4 (or 6?) and the gravel. Scarifying it in the rain at the end was a nice touch 👌
I did rectangle pieces too heavy square
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert makes sense.
Q: What sand should I use if I want to make my own 70/30 top dressing to use when over-seeding? I need to level up a bit, otherwise I’d use your field compost discount code.
@@PalDhupar84 river washed , do not use block paving sand or building sand or sharp sand
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert thanks!
Really enjoy your vids dan, and good to hear that your a😂 fellow turfy from myerscough.
I was just thinking, i wonder if you might find that the gravel under there causes that square to drought off quicker in the sunshine. Time will tell!
Nar im confident it wont plenty of soil holding onto water there north facing will be fine
Great video, as always. I have some spots on my lawn where I will put your tips to work this weekend. I'm always eager to go outside and work on my lawn after watching you work. 😂 I'm curious if the gravel will actually improve the drainage. Keep up the good work.
Going to create air space lower down that water can get it into, i dont think it will make the drainage worse anyway
Oh grow up
A job well done Dan but that looked like hard work
That was the idea geoff why should easy be the way to get great results
I have various undulating areas in my lawn, quite large so dealing with them the way you have in this video just isn't feasible, as we're talking about random large areas on a large lawn. So my thinking is that all I can do is fill and level with topsoil and then seed the various areas. It's going to take quite a large amount of topsoil, but I can't leave the highs and lows as they really spoil the look of the front garden (we've only just moved in). Do you agree? Would you use topsoil, or something else? I have bought the Field No.4 Organic Fine Grade Lawn Dressing for when I overseed it next week (cheers for the discount code, as I ordered 1500 litres!). Would you recommend another type of soil from Field Compost (or elsewhere), rather than just regular topsoil?
Some lawns just are too big for this type of work but i can only deal with whats in front of me, id rather have an undulating lawn than one which is patchy to be honest, as most the time you cant even see undulations when the grass is growing,
I wouldnt use the compost for levelling as it doesnt have any substance and will degrade very quickly, you need rootzone if going to do what you say
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert Thanks for your replies. Problem is you can clearly see the undulations, before or after cutting. I don't understand why they are there, but they are. I think that my only option is to level out the areas with topsoil, then seed it. Expensive and will take a lot of effort, but I can't bear looking at them, and when sorted it will make the front garden awesome.
danny that was absolutely brilliant ,, what a fab way to do that ,,, what was the box measurements if you don't mind me asking ?
28x28, but there was no science behind that was just what i guessed at on my first piece, you dont want it to big as your sods will be too heavy
Nearly spat my dinner out then you took me by surprise sitting there yabbering onn talking sat there in ya car seat nice intro
Mixing it up
hi Daniel just a few questions about lawn work.
1.Is it time for me to start over seeding and topdressing my lawn?
Did you not see my last video?
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert no only just seen this pop up
@@leowhite8445 ok well watch my last video it was made for you!!
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert ok will do thanks you
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert can i use peat free top soil?
Inspiring.
Can you do the same with new turf , same procedure?
Yeah as long as its rooted well i guess
@@DanielHibbertLawnExpert thanks👌🏼
Hi Dan, I've just put about 20mm of topsoil down over my existing lawn after cutting it at 10mm, then overseeded. You mentioned the old grass would die off and produce Ethylene, killing new grass seed, do you think this will be an issue for me?
2cm will be ok as should get through, but its when your filling in with 6inches it causes trouble
making me reconsider trying to level off my lawn this way 40m2. Mine was neglected before I moved in and is almost like a mound (lower at edges, higher in the middle) was planning on doing this and removing soil then placing back down level. If it wasnt as expensive for a skip I would bin the current grass and start fresh from seed. Also looking forward to your video on drainage for the garden/lawn. Sit lower than my neighbours garden and that one side usually pools up, french drain possibly the solution?
Yeah as soon as I get a dry spell will be cracking on with drainage work here and think it could be just what your looking for, watch this space
Danny. The lawn in the background, I think you worked on last week. Do the lawns either side belong to someone else or did you just worked on the middle bit?. Enjoyed this video. Still waiting for the weather to break here in Scotland.
Hi Daniel, love the videos! Do you recommend a grass seed for lawns that are in shade for half the day? Going to overseed in a few weeks and want to get some ordered. Thanks
What i sell will do a job and its easy to get going
can this be done to redefine a perimeter that's too high?
For example: 30 years ago the guys who put the sod in on my house did it so thick that the soil is 2 inches above the sidewalk and driveway in my front yard.
Yes didnt even think about that great shout
Daniel, one thing I’m not sure about is how do you know that the 10cm measurement your using to get the turf level to is at the same level as the ground next to it? How do you avoid making it too high?
Its all done by eye and you always wanna leave it slightly proud to allow for a bit of sinkage, you could put a string line across if you was worried, but been doing it along time so pretty good at it
You could adapt the technique block pavers use to create a flat sand base; set up two rails either side, say 5cm thick scaff boards, then span a beam across with something 15cm sitting below it. You can then either slice more material out or add back in.
Aup Daniel. Love your videos! The pythagoras thing would work if you went 9,12,15 as you can times them all by whatever you want. You just can't square them all as that's timesing them all by a different number
Good knowledge!
Awesome
That's a first for me, gravel under turf! I guess it provides good drainage and the roots will migrate down. But why not use a free draining soil product?
Didnt have any on me lol
5, 12, 13 - I think you mean 5, 12, 15. I'm a little drunk, and I thought I had gone blotto there for a mo. Thanks for the vid though, matey, cheers!
Cool👍
Pythagoras for those interested is x^2 + y^2 = z^2
Doesn’t the disturbed soil underneath again just settle and leave a new square shaped hollow?
No as i used the gravel which will not go anywhere
Also left slightly high to allow for a tad of movement
Brilliant video Dan. Quick question. In the summer the edges of my lawn seem to shrink and create a small channel, between the grass and edging bricks I have surrounding the lawn. It’s like the whole area shrinks in the sun. Would you suggest I dig this out now and pack with more soil and seed now or pack in the height of the summer when it happens?
All you need to do is water it its the ground drying out like in the borders when the soil gets fissures in it, even if you do what you suggest same thing will happen if you don’t water
Can someone turn off the intermittent rain, every time I think I might be able to cut and scarify it pisses down.
If your box is square then why not use multiples of that to mark out? Drop box on floor, mark inner edge with tool, repeat etc
You could but never thought about that
What is the music?
Gabriel witcher blue mountain
Are the products you use on the grass dangerous to dogs cats and children.
No not at all
By the end, this is the lawncare equivalent of a film star coming out of plastic surgery looking all bloody & bruised but in a few weeks will look amazing I bet
So that's a hollow? To me it's perfect 😂
Looks ok on the camera but when your stood in it its deffo there
First it’s a theorem not a theoryem. You could do a 3.3,4.4,5.5 or a 6,9,15 instead of having to go direct to the 5,12,13
I like how you play the same music in all your videos. Crack on
Yo yo!!
Been following you for the last year my man. Excellent work! I’m really getting into your way of lawn care.
Sorry, but this seems like a very hard way to fix a simple problem. Why not just add soil from the top, roll it flat, add some grass seed and wait a bit for it all to grow?
Did you not watch the video. He did explain why.
You could build the height up slowly over time, each time add a light layer of soil, allow the crown to grow through then keep repeating. Longer process. Def. don't seed as the new seed will differ in appearance
@@djdusted6485 Yes, but I’m not that fussy with my lawn. It’s about 500 square metres, it’s not that smooth and the dogs tend to dig it up, scratch it up chasing balls etc. Personally I’m after solutions that give maximum bang for the buck, such as aerating, scarifying, reseeding etc.
@@roger4880 Yes, that is what I would do as a homeowner. Different if you’re a pro gardener and want to get the whole job done in one go. If I worried about reseeding how would I deal with all the stuff that happened in our garden last year? Removed a large cedar, moved two raised beds and a small rockery, repaired grass after a temporary greenhouse for beans, tomatoes etc. If you’re trying to produce a golf green like finish then fine.
@@Tailspin80 What is the ask? If you know the answer then we can't add anything of value. Homeowner or pro gardener, doesn't matter, the result does. Any pro would not rush, if in a rush get a few rolls of turf.