10 STUPID mistakes to AVOID overseeding your lawn

[@danielgradwell3998]

Great video, you make reference to the fact you use 11 bags of soil to top dress but you don’t state what the area of the lawn is. This would be helpful to get an idea of how many bags people would need

[@Premier_lawns_official]

The lawn is around 170m2

[@moustafamortada]

Alright I’ve followed all those steps and I have to say it’s the best lawn I’ve ever had! I got my neighbours in to see results as it was a bit of a team work I borrows scarifier and someone else came over with me to buy seeds. I wish I could be able to post the before and after pictures

[@JoseGonzalez-kc8sg]

Greetings, a good video for beginners like me. I'm going to reseed my lawn. Greetings from the United States, a new subscriber here.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Welcome to the channel 🙂

[@OCDLawncare]

Superb video Robbie. Very informative and I’m glad you put emphasis on what people need for there soil conditions. What Boston seed did you use to Overseed with.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Thank you, a lot of work went into this video

[@why-be-normal7014]

I overseed usually end of September till the end of October and I’m on Long Island NY

[@Premier_lawns_official]

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[@TomoBishBosh]

Thanks for this! Planning on doing my front lawn this week. What’s your thoughts on landscaping cloth to cover over the seed until it’s established?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

You don't need it this time of year. It speeds up the growth, but in 6 weeks time you won't be able to tell the difference if you had covered it or now

[@sarahwilson5820]

Hey guys, could you do a spot on fungal diseases like red thread?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

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[@sarahwilson5820]

@@Premier_lawns_official not only did this work, but yesterday my DH said, " you know, whatever you're doing, well this almost looks like artificial grass" I think that's a yay?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

@@sarahwilson5820 Happy days!

[@markjefferson7492]

Lawn care, if you have a large or multiple lawns, is getting very expensive here in the UK, seed and decent topsoil, compost are a bonkers price. It's a rich mans game.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

It always was..

[@lisah6076]

Birds haven't eaten my seeds. Maybe a skunk. 😂 where I haven't covered, I saw seeds days later. It has rained 8 straight days. Shower like rain and 70s each day. Steady but not all day. Then some rain from Hurricane on the 7th and 8th day. I'm in Ohio up North. Rain on the 10th day. Prior to the rain, it hadn't rain in 10 days. Thanks for the tips. 👍🏽 Although, I started already 😂

[@nickg505]

Been as dry as the desert around here. Time to give this lawn CPR.

[@PeRcY58533]

Hi Robbie, I have a narrow window over the next week to rennovate and overseed my lawn with Rye here in London. I will not be able to do this later in August or September. Would this be a waste of time given the current weather is set to be mid-20's over the next week? Thank you for the great content!

[@Premier_lawns_official]

We did it earlier than usual. More just to have it there in place. London is pretty far south, October would be a great time to do it If you did it now, then there is a good chance you would have to do a fair bit of watering

[@davidsands351]

I’ve seen lots of overseeding videos and this is up there with the best, possibly even THE Best. I did however have 2 questions. 1) is it ok to seed, then fertilise then top dress? Does it matter? 2) main question - you say to use top soil or compost and not top dressing which has sand in it. Virtually every other video I’ve seen says to use top dressing if overseeding. If we aren’t using top dressing what’s its purpose? When would you use it?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Thanks for your compliments, there is a lot to unpack in it It depends on what you are trying to achieve, and what kind of soil you have in your lawn I would only recommend sand, if you have a sandy lawn or can get a sports grade sand and even then that should only be used for levelling. There isn't any goodness in sand, so it's not going to provide much benefit to the seeds Compost is great for seed, lots of goodness in it. As it breaks down it will feed the lawn But it won't do any levelling as it will break down Next up, a good quality bag screened topsoil works great too. This will help protect the seed, help improve the quality of the lawn and also help with levels To answer your first question, renovate, seed, soil, level work the seed/soil in then fertilize If you put on the fertilizer first you risk damaging the fertilizer prills, this can stop it from working or worse damage the lawn by burning it That's why it goes on after everything else is done 👍

[@davidsands351]

Thank you for the very prompt and well explained answer. Makes perfect sense. Keep up the great work.

[@NapoleonSolo452]

In the US, I overseed my cool season lawn (tall fescue) in September.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

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[@davidplanet3919]

I will be overseeing my lawns in the first half of September, weather permitting. It always attracts the local children who watch me scruff up my lawn. This year though I have a few clumps of poa which I will dig out first. One thing you don’t mention is the importance of a beer or two in the fridge for afterwards.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

David you hit the nail on the head, a cold beer afterwards is a must!

[@Vipster842]

What temperature is best for overseeding? Min and max can swing a lot in the uk around Sept /Oct. Thanks

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Yep really depends on where you are, was talking to a turf grower that does seeding in Nov. Someone else said they had their first frost this week Also depends on the type of seed

[@Vipster842]

@@Premier_lawns_official is there a specific ideal temperature range we should look out for. Btw love your lawncare tips. They are really useful

[@martinsefton3444]

What do you think of boston grass seed "cold weather seed" ? South east England. Middle of March possible?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

What are you planning on doing?

[@martinsefton3444]

@Premier_lawns_official overseeding my garden and a complete renovation on another.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

@@martinsefton3444 I would encourage you to wait a few weeks until April and then use the BS Premier Lawn Grass Seed

[@ahamilton1305]

Boston seeds doesn’t ship to Northern Ireland - could you recommend an alternative for NI? Thanks

[@Premier_lawns_official]

No sorry

[@SuperCymru]

You mention not to use sand … but compost or soil …..as I want to feed and help level, would you suggest a mix of both, is so what ratio? 4 parts soil to 1 compost. (20% mix)

[@Premier_lawns_official]

If you use compost as part your mix to level, that part will rot down I would only advise to use sand if you have sandy soil. I use sand on my own lawn as it has sandy soil, for clients lawns we use soil to level

[@atpotts]

Followed the Boston Seeds link and there's no NI delivery option. Where in NI do you recommend getting your seed and fertilizer? Local garden shops dont seem to have many options.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Sorry I don't have any links for you

[@GeeQ93]

Great video guys.👏🏼 I am trying to determine how many bags of 30 litres top soil will i need for my roughly 90sqm lawn for overseeding. Could you let me know how big is your lawn please. Thanks.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

It's around 170m

[@GeeQ93]

@@Premier_lawns_official thanks

[@muhammadtalhaahmed631]

Any tip for cat comes in my garden and do the messy new grown seeds I m. Used many methods no nothing works I m put lemons vinegar coffee tea bags still comes in garlic garden

[@DelH555]

Do you put the Pre seed fertiliser on after you have seeded the lawn 16:35

[@Premier_lawns_official]

The only thing you do after the fertilizer is water the lawn 👍 seed then fertilizer (always in that order)

[@DelH555]

@@Premier_lawns_official thanks

[@Premier_lawns_official]

No worries 😁

[@raybrowning2188]

Those cores are not near deep enough adjust your settings get some deeper core. It will help your lawn.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

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[@retoulrichgareus3457]

Is dew sufficient from a watering perspective?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

No definitely not

[@retoulrichgareus3457]

My mistake #11 😂

[@ahamilton1305]

Is there a difference between the drag matt and the lawn loop? (do I need both)

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Lawn lute is great if your lawn is over 50m2 otherwise it would be too big. It's a LOT less work that a lawn lute They both do the same job

[@ahamilton1305]

Thanks very much

[@johnp82]

Isn't an aeration hole too deep for seeds to fall in and germinate?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Nope, seed will grow in those holes

[@roberthamilton2334]

Hi Robbie ,if your overseeding a dwarf rye lawn would it not be better to overseed in spring as rye grass thins over the winter months ?

[@roberthamilton2334]

By the way Westland weed free top soil in B&Q down from £7 to £4 for a 30 litre bag here in N Ireland at the moment.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

@@roberthamilton2334 I'm not sure, I think it probably doesn't matter if you do it in the spring or the autumn

[@Premier_lawns_official]

@@roberthamilton2334 that's a good price, this year I have been buying the compost by the pallet. And that price is cheaper than what I am paying! But having it all sitting there is a great time saver, instead of having to go to the shop whenever we need it

[@roberthamilton2334]

I bought 20 bags of it for top dressing in spring time. Couldnt resist at that price.

[@SuperChalkster]

over the last 18 months ive took lawn care a lot more serious. in the spring i scarified and overseeed again as well as thespring before, but this time around ive noticed a lot of grass types in the lawn that i dont like, bermuda grass is somehow in my fescue and rye lawn in southampton england, i dont know how it got there or how it is even surviving but its ugly, i only identify it as bermuda from a plant app on my phone, im like 95% sure it is bermuda.... i also noticed fungus, where its hard to 100% say if its brown patch or leaf spot but the blades do have brown spots on them, i need a fungicide but they are banned in the uk, so i sprayed neem oil on the lawn the other week, its not really done anything, i got some turfsolv so ill try that next but its not really a fungicide but says it helps with diseases.... i think i got the fungus due to overwatering after seeding. just seems bizare that we can buy glyphosate but cant buy a fungicide for a lawn. i feel im trying to polish a turd really, sure ive had both my neighbours say my lawn looks nice, but im a perfectionist nd its not the level im looking for. i dont think ill ever achieve the level i want without killing and starting over. im forver digging weed grasses out of it. but i suppose it gives me something to do on a weekend, lol. i bought one of those soil ph things too and mine is quite low with an acerage of 5.2 so i added some lime a few weeks back too. ill keep trying with it as killing it all off is a last resort really.

[@stevenbelcher5658]

How much sun does it get? If you get a lot then removing the top inch, adding rootzone then seeding fine fescue is the best solution based on everything I have tried. Fine fescue will get incredible dense in full sun and prevent any weedgrassess from germinating. you may get some during the establishment phase but unlike bent / rye fine fescue looks nothing like poa making it easy to remove. I have never had poa in dense fine fescue. If it's shaded then there will always be poa. There is a fungicide called provonto. It's a spray meant for plants but has the same ingredients as a lawn fungicide. I treatment fusarium and red thread will fast results.

[@SuperChalkster]

@@stevenbelcher5658 when i started out with the lawn it was moss infested, i bought a scarifier and like did 5 passes on the lawn trying to get all the moss out, it didnt really leave alot of grass left to be honest, i also aerated with a handheld tool which was a job and a half giving me blisters over numerous days, i overseeded it and was amazed at the results, but since then ive taken it more serious and really i believe a lot of weed grasses germinated along with the seeds i put down. from a distance the lawn looks great but up close im not happy with it. i tell myself that i will kill it off somehwen or another and start the lawn over using 100% fescue... then i spend so much time polishing it, adding lime, neem oi, nitrogen, fertliser, iron seaweed etc etc as well as spending hours forking out poa i feel ive spend too much time on it to kill it off now. one side of the lawn is always in full sun, the other side has a few areas that struggle in shade, this is where most of the weed grasses are, but even full sun areas gets poa. i over seeded twice now with a1 seeds for shade and drought, it has an abundunt of species, but mostly made up of red fescue and rye, as other types like smooth meadow and bents were very low percentage. i think ill just keep plodding away with it as im slowly improving it little by little. hopefully next growing season it will be a touch better then this one and so on.

[@SuperChalkster]

@@stevenbelcher5658 I did give a more detailed reply but it seems to of not went through. Or maybe it did but I dont see it, the lawn was massively moss infested. I heavily scarified it and over seeded and a shade and drought mix which is mostly made up of red fescue but has numerous species. 1 side gets full sun bear all day but the other side is fairly shaded . Not over shaded so I do not get grass to grow but shaded anough for it to struggle. This is the area where most the poa is but I genreally have weed grass all over that must of come though after removing the moss. Not just poa, I dug a patch of what I believe to be Yorkshire for the other day, I have Bermuda scattered about too. Thing is you stand one end of the garden and look at the lawn and it looks great, but you get close and it’s not good. I know I’m fussy maybe it would of been best to kill it off turf cut it and start over but I suggested it to my misses and she thinks I’m mad as she thinks the lawn look great. Thing is I have put a lot of effort into it now, so maybe I will just keep improving it bit by bit

[@stevenbelcher5658]

@@SuperChalkster I tried improving a lawn with weedgrass and it never worked out no matter what I tried. Starting again is what I would do after failing to do so over many years of overseeding, verticutting, trying different height of cut, watering etc.. You eliminated the poa and remove all the unwanted grass species when starting again. Just make sure to remove the top layer a weed grass seeds dont get killed off by glyphosate . Also never scarify and leave the debris on the grass to clean up afterwards as it knocks all the seed heads into the soil. The scarifier neeeds to have a bag to collect the debris as its cut. Cancel Reply

[@SuperChalkster]

@@stevenbelcher5658 I would kill it all then hire a turf cutter and rotavator and level it out like a bowling green to either lay turf or seed. But that is last resort, because to be fair I am slowly improving it all the time, at the moment there is no poa that I can see but I expect come the weekend there be a few more for me to fork out, had a small patch of what I believe to be Yorkshire fog I dig out this weekend filled it back up with top soil but not seeded yet as I would t be able to keep it moist in this heat. Only thing is I have Bermuda here and there. But I was thinking of brushing it with glyphosate using a cotton bud here and there, It would obviously be better on the long run to start again but I think for now I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing.

[@bigbotno1]

2:08 Tried overseeding september/october, waste of money. Spring as soon as the sun hits your lawn is the best time. For me thats april. The new grass has the whole season to grow strong.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

@@bigbotno1 where abouts in the world are you and what was the grass seed

[@vanthel]

Same for me but only because my lawn gets no direct sunlight come October

[@bigbotno1]

@@Premier_lawns_official The Netherlands, lawn is on the north. From October no more direct sun, but bright light. Seed will germinate, but won't make it to the next year. If I want to scarify a second time I have to do it in July/Aug when the time is right (just before 1-2 weeks rain/cloudy). Seeds are usually known brand like Ecostyle or Pokon. Last seed I used this spring was from Pokon it repairs itself, that would be nice, hopefully no more re-seeding. ;-)

[@davegill7614]

I see Daniel Hibbert britains best lawn said aeration is a complete waste of time...whats your thoughts

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Great question, while Daniel Hibbert is certainly entitled to his opinion, the vast majority of lawn care experts and countless studies disagree. Don't dismiss it solely based on one person's opinion!

[@davegill7614]

@Premier_lawns_official thanks for reply...yes I guess like anything in life everyone will have differing opinions..Great to have a balanced vuew

[@CJPage_JC]

Should have scalped that lawn before you seeded and top dressed.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Why's that?

[@bitTorrenter]

​@@Premier_lawns_official What does taking plugs out of the lawn do for compaction further down?

[@becca1927]

Robbie you should set up a shop in Northern Ireland and stock Boston Seeds. Because of the EU Muppets the average homeowner can't buy directly from Boston Seeds or any other lawn care outlets from the mainland UK

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Best to pass that onto your mp and tell them to get it sorted!

[@rickhanna2803]

Where can you get Boston seeds from in NI?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Rick it's really difficult to get seeds posted to NI unless you are getting big amounts

[@Cookie.x.monsterr]

I just put 40m2 in about 15m2 😅

[@robinkeck9950]

England 4 Northern Ireland 4 … great double act

[@Premier_lawns_official]

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[@opticyclic]

I thought you were going to say "More browner" :)

[@Premier_lawns_official]

@@opticyclic oh

[@lawnrebel]

Who is a youtube guru?

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Hey Connor, nice to see you here. Some might say you are on that list ❤

[@lawnrebel]

@@Premier_lawns_official great video BTW. Info is spot on.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

@@lawnrebel Thank you!!

[@benvoliothefirst]

Leave it to a European lawncare company to have background music like a great nightclub. I bet you guys party hard. New Hampshire here. Spring is dicey like you said, never know when a polar vortex will roll in and throw a third or fourth winter at you. But here on Oak Street, if I seed too late I'm just going to be mowing up grass seed with all my leaves. So I should probably start ASAP, here in the second week of August.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

Yes that's the downside to Autumn, having the leaves to deal with. My lawn has a lot of big trees around it, a good blower works wonders 😀 Re my party days are over sadly 🎉

[@umleitungdoth5827]

English subtitles 🤣

[@Premier_lawns_official]

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[@15DurangoRT]

That lawn looks pretty brown to me.

[@Premier_lawns_official]

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