DIY LAWN TRANSFORMATION - Soil, Sand and Seed!

I may have made a mess of the garden for a few weeks but the efforts have paid off! Couple more weeks and we will be Summer ready! 👍 Of course there are far more 'proper' ways to do this, but at the end of the day nature will do the hardworking its just waiting thats the hard bit! 🙄
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[@gca259]

Tip from a golf course green-keeper: add the seed to the sand/soil mix before spreading it on the lawn surface

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Great tip! I remember doing something similar with wildflower seed and sand to make it easier to spread. 👍

[@colinmiles1052]

Sound idea!

[@dadtube8391]

Great to get a professional's tip. Thank you.

[@mandyleeson1]

Great to see Rosa joining in with her big sisters. You're a good Dad.

[@Rolandpgbrooks]

Great tip about the upturned pallet, i was going to build a metal frame. Thankyou.

[@nathanlucas6465]

I've given up trying to have a perfect lawn. Several years on the trot I've filled the dips, removed all the dandelions, aerated it, added a top dressing of compost and overseeded it. Some bad bits of couch grass got dug out and turfed using turf that was grown in seed trays in my greenhouse. Now it's just got s robot mower on it that mows daily and once every now and then I'll buzz round the outside with a strimmer. It's already had way too much time and money thrown at it. I'm surprised you're working on the lawn anyway. I thought you'd be in the workshop 😁

[@matthewharding6245]

Just wanted to say that the upturned pallet with a paving slab on top works brilliantly at levelling the lawn. One thing I would recommend is a pre seed fertilizer to give the seeds a bit of an early boost and encourage strong root growth. I got mine from A1 with my seed.

[@mafletsb]

Lovely little helpers

[@rodpotts6317]

You worked those girls right out of their jackets. Been doing the same thing here in Oklahoma.

[@OurHomeProjects]

Just started seeding a patch of garden we had levelled... trying to make the most of the sun and showers at the moment - I just hope a downpour doesn't wash it all away!! Thanks for the video. Karen

[@malcolmbale9566]

You’re doing a fantastic job with your property & it’s difficult to keep working & missing out on important things, but you seem to have the balance right with the family being involved!!, not many like you about.

[@vivaldi1236]

Love the helpers.

[@TheCountryCottageGardener]

Always nice to see gardening on your channel. Everything is so behind this year with the very strange weather..from the wettest winter in ages to a month with no rain. PS I use a spazzel for lawn topdressing too 👍👍

[@UpsideDownFork]

With the warm week we had back in March, I thought I’d make an early start on my lawn and did exactly everything you’ve done back on April 1st. Well since then we’ve basically had a drought, 2 days of snow and many mornings of frost. My sprinklers have been working overtime and it hasn’t really been warm enough for a fast transformation but I’m happy with the results considering the cool and dry weather. I’ve gone back over some patches just like you and hoping for great results by the end of May.

[@Ivan-gm7zb]

Brilliant progress looks great already 👍

[@b1shbashbosh]

Went through this a couple of years ago, screened tonnes of top soil I had dug out for a patio,;the same way you did with a rake, a screen and a barrow. Took days..Raked and levelled my whole garden nice and flat, seeded it all.. Then a colony of moles decided to take up residency 🤦‍♂️! Haha..

[@thedenverdino]

Literally redoing my lawn. Hope to get the same result! Love watching your videos. Keep up the good work

[@CantankerousDave]

Watering is key.

[@pavelroll4318]

Wow great progress!

[@HirenDShah]

Haha! I've been doing a full lawn renovation and I too have been looking at my growing lawn whilst down on the ground :)

[@lisawilliamson5468]

You have such a fantastic group of helpers!! I'm hoping to get mine looking that good by the summer, too. As always, looking forward to your next video.

[@theinfernalcraftsman]

Looking great. I need to do something similar but with compost and a few pallets of sod. My soil is primarily sand so I don't need anymore of that... Luckily I have a great soil and mineral supplier and I can get anything by the yard. (close enough to a cubic meter) :) The only desirable grass varieties for my area are only available in sod form as they can't start from seed.

[@georgerothwell]

Great garden

[@jibcot8541]

I am so envious of your garden 😍, it is such a good size and all the things you do to it are right up my street. Maybe one day I will have one like that, but in the last year the prices of houses with big gardens have shot up nearly £100,000 around here (quite near you actually) in "the race for space" during lockdowns and home working 😒.

[@felixreali7101]

I think I need to hire the Restoration Couple TEAM to come and do my lawn here in Kerry 😁

[@combows]

Well unlike Tim there has been no shortage of rain in kerry lol

[@Garry_G]

Get the Healy Rae’s on the case, I’m sure they are bet into gardening as well

[@combows]

@@Garry_G ha ha only prob there come voting season the grass be full of vote #1 signs

[@cornwallkid100]

I was told autum was best for grass as you don't have to water it .. it rains alot ....😁😁😁

[@lbh002]

Thx for this. I am going to be dressing my back yard where I moved some stepping stones and the area where the stones were, believe it or not, are now high spots. Uggghhhh! Anyway, You to the rescue! Thx.

[@magill4046]

Great team effort! Good results too considering the extreme conditions this year. Will look fantastic in a few more weeks 👌

[@louisleflick]

Could you make a lawn roller from an old gas bottle with your new found welding skills? 👀

[@alexlyons12]

Great video Tim, and my Mug arrived this week!! What quantity of soil/sand did you need? I’d have a pretty similar size I reckon

[@alanrobins]

Let’s hope it’s not a hot dry summer like last year as without watering (which is a waste of a water) it will go brown until the autumn

[@stuplant6693]

You have gone over kill compared to my lawn. The prep time put in I just don't have. But it still looks great. Whatever works right

[@insaneseinn]

Love that part "if you are inpatient like me lay on the floor..."🤣 I did mine last year it was an eye sore for good couple month, I wish I killed it and rotavated the old lawn, as this year old grass is fighting with new one.

[@garvielloken3929]

NOOICE!

[@johnmilner4667]

Really good video. You have inspired me to do mine I've been meaning to do it for a few years now. I needed some inspiration and you just gave me some 👍

[@rorymakesstuff]

How long did you manage to keep the kids and chickens off it?!? About to do mine, expecting a good amount of disobedience on the keep off instructions… on the seeding, could this be done before top dressing to ensure contact and reduce bird feeding?

[@matthewcalder4351]

Tim would it be an idea to put the sand and soil in yr cement mixer? 😄

[@petemoring67]

Good job you had the 'Little Elves' EH?? ;-)

[@davidhowes3735]

Ahhh free child labour !!!!! Those were the days , make the most of it !! My lovely child use to come out and help me ,now as a grotty teenager just getting them out of their pit and to say something more than a grunt is a bonus, make the most of it !!!!😂😂

[@birenpatel3563]

Hi, really enjoying your videos. my lawn needs levelling and reseeding , what type of sand did you and where can I buy it from

[@adamthair5070]

It’s called Washed sand and any building merchants and presumably garden centres not sure about that one

[@DANNYBIOSHOW]

WHATS THE BEST KIND OF LABOR...... CHILD LABOR 😂😅👌💯❤️🥰

[@davidbanner9001]

It looked like you cut it after a few weeks and short? Personally if it's a completely a new lawn or even over seeding, I would of left it long and only of cut it after about 4-6 weeks. But there again, I don't have kids running about.

[@degsyathome]

I made a timber version of your concrete 'rake' but with a 5ft straight piece of 4x1 and just kept dragging that back and forward and then at right angles. Flat as a fluke.

[@michaelt2987]

Did the same with a 5’ length of 3x2 attached to a wolf interchangeable broom head that I cut the bristles off so I now have a lawn levelling tool as part of my wolf kit and it works a treat. Great gear the wolf stuff. I have telescopic handles that go up to 4 meters long bought for cleaning 1st floor windows in a previous handyman life that come in handy for all sorts including not having to walk over where you just worked. Enjoying all your videos Tim

[@captainbarnes923]

Have to remember this video for next spring Suspect it'll be too late now?

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Only really just warmed up enough for seed so still time, otherwise September is an option.

[@captainbarnes923]

@@TheRestorationCouple Comment was for the wife to see. Now you've done it :) :)

[@mphys5370]

I need to do this but my question is did you keep kids off of it for 3 weeks? My kids wouldn't stay off

[@TheRestorationCouple]

Fence off with poultry fencing and just told them the electric was connected. 😂

[@mphys5370]

@@TheRestorationCouple wouldn't stop my two:)

[@TourJudge1961]

The only thing you have to be careful is the dog when spreading grass seeds, they can sniff the seeds up their nose and into their lungs especially gun dogs

[@TheRestorationCouple]

We actually relocated our spaniel to my folks for the fortnight, mainly as he is now almost blind and would have kept walking in to the fencing! Great comment through, will remember that. 👍

[@maxwarren2000]

April, will be wet....

[@Bobs1Models]

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