It’s one of the key jobs in the garden across the summer but a lot of people don’t mow their lawn properly. In this video I show you how I follow a few straightforward steps to get it right. I explain why grass needs the right care to thrive and how moss takes over when conditions aren’t ideal, before showing you how to properly scarify using an electric scarifier.
I’ll also walk you through checking your mower, keeping blades sharp, and setting the correct cutting height throughout the year, before sharing my mowing techniques, including how to achieve those classic, professional-looking stripes that can transform any garden.
ALAN IS USING:
RMA 448 RV Rear Roller Cordless Lawn Mower with AK30S battery from Stihl – https://rb.gy/ixraue (Lawn Mower)
– https://rb.gy/py8dk2 (Battery)
RLA240 cordless scarifier from Stihl – https://rb.gy/wn753r
Timestamp:
0:00 Introduction
1:04 Scarify Your Lawn
3:36 Set The Blade Height
6:07 The Lawn Reveal
6:13 Alan’s Tips
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22 Comments
Thank you for another great video! I love my moss though, can’t let it go 😅.
NO MOW MAY is a brilliant idea and I hope people ignore your needless call to have a pristine lawn.
Love my moss, as do the birds that use it to line their nests with. Love my dandelions too, as do the bumble bees and goldfinches.
mow mine every 3 days and water it for an hour every morning !!! 😮
What you used there was a power rake not a scarifier blade……
Hi Alan, I just thought of you. Remember during COVID you pleaded with government to allow garden centres to open for people's sanity. I was watching an American lady 'Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat' video and she was paying a visit to a chatty lady in Texas. She did not garden – until COVID and wow. She's now a gardener and like to a reformed smoker is on a mission. She winter gardens and grew 500 plants, and has given away 225 of them to people within her neighboured/community. They are Texas-friendly plants so her neighbours will have success too. She places her annuals in terracotta pots and buries them because moles were eating the roots – she's a goer. Thank you for insisting governments step up x
this is assuming u have loads of times to do all of this..
We love the stripes Alan! 😊
I'm not bothered in the slightest about stripes.
I just bought a robot lawnmower that just bumbles along randomly and my lawn has never looked better.
Love the Stihl mowers – and Love you Alan!!!
I like grass, but I LOVE moss… my husband and I compromised… he can have all the grass and the maintenance that goes with it in our backyard, and i get a grass free front yard because it’s mostly moss and large flower beds… that way, he’s not flicking weeds or unwanted seeds into my flower beds if he were mowing the front.
We both win ❤️😇❤️😇
STIHL lawn mower and scarifier brand new! Hmmmm expencive kit. Can I have a fee bee please?
Exactly iv said this from the start, if you don't mowe I may you just kill the insects in June, stupid people who know nothing about nature making decisions
Great advice Alan. Lawn warriors are often out in force but your advice is far more sound, to my mind.
Really couldn't care how the lawn looks like, I'm gardening for wildlife. Might even get rid of what lawn is left & crate a wildflower meadow instead.
Alan Titchmarsh……this is not your garden…..why are you giving the impression it is….why not come clean….and admit you are using this garden for your YouTube channel….. we know who lives in that beautiful thatched cottage?
We're oddballs, but ever since my mom got her first electric mower back in the 1960s, we've always enjoyed our lawns mowed at 3" tall. They look like green velvet.
I mow my lawn every 2 to 3 weeks, depending on the growth rate. I feel like the lawn tells me when she needs a cut. I have a small garden 100m2 but I feel that we have a special relationship and I love all my plants, flowers, trees. I like to watch my garden and silently say thank you for all the beauty she is offering me. In exchange I offer love, carrying and water <3
Get a robot
A bit of stress helps I cut mine back really short and it generates new growth and always pick up clippings promotes disease and moss if you don't
You sure that's 3 inches?
I find sharpening the blades before cutting the grass helps massively. It cuts it rather than ripping the grass. And the grass recovers quicker.