How to Over Seed your Lawn and Top Dress with COMPOST

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[lotuselise]

I only use Jack's black magic compost for Re-seeding. And I scarify first after cutting on lowest setting. Then I have an old way of doing it. By making 1 turf length up with canes, then put this down and scatter my grass seed in different directions up and down, then across. Then I use a Garden Sieve and use Jack's black magic compost to cover lightly. Then light water early morning late evening for about 3-4 weeks. Grass is brilliant. Never let me down doing this way.

[therattyfire]

Nice video. I've just recently completed my front lawn (144 Square mtrs) and basically used the same method as yourself.
Unfortunately the previous owner didn't really take an interest in the garden, so I inherited something that was like walking on a sponge, the amount of thatch I removed was unbelievable, 2 trailer loads and 20 bin bags 😩.
After heavy scarification I reseeded then top dressed with the new Jack's. The new blend definitely works well, but there is a lot of wood and what appears to be small white pumis stones in it, I made a sieve that fit's over my wheelbarrow and took the most of the larger bit's out before dressing and after 13 days the lawn is looking fantastic, I hoping to do the first cut with the rotary in about another week, then with the cylinder mower a week or so later.
It's videos like yours that give us newbies confidence to take on projects like this, so thanks for posting and best wishes from Northern Ireland 👍

[anthonykelham]

Allways find my lawn flute good for levelling

[davidbanner]

If I was to give some advice, It would be to scarify and then immediately over seed. I would also add more compost then yourself. It will probably be OK, depends on the birds getting to your seed and the current ground temps in your region? Thanks for the upload, it'll be interesting to see the results in a few weeks.

[ansonstiles]

I came to this process of my own intuition but was unsure how to proceed. I’m about to head out and do it. Thanks for the vid!

[brettjohnson]

Great video mate, good for us newbies. A good idea would be to use a garden sieve on the jacks magic works a treat with getting the larger bits out.

[gord]

Good to see the vloggs for us more novice gardeners on here.
Have a mossy front lawn so have put some iron sulphate on to kill it off then will scarify….over seed and add some compost as seems to be the favoured way.
Liked n subbed!!

[mrrob]

Nice one mate, my front lawn actually looks very similar to yours and I've never used compost before when topdressing so gonna give this a go at the weekend.

[spencerwasden]

Would have been nice to see the results a few weeks/months later (or a follow up video)

[gandhimate]

any update on this? I've just used the exact same method on my new build front lawn (after 2 years of neglect) and I'm eagerly awaiting the results! Would be great to see how yours got on with the seeding and Jacks Magic. Cheers

[gsk]

Great video. Very useful. Well done. Keep em coming

[GW._.]

That drop spreader will be good for sand top dressing when your reel mowing at 6mm

[rugs]

I use jacks magic every year when I renovate my lawn and get good results. Although the new 50L bags are a new mix . Going to try the new mix next week

[gel]

Just subscribed to your channel well explained video .

[p-layfitness]

A great video, thankyou mate. Best wishes. 👍

[lynnereed]

Great video. I'm also thinking of getting some Jack's Magic. Your lawn looks much better than mine. Well done 👍

[lawnking]

Great vid. Just a side note, it's not advisable to add compost to your lawn on a regular basis. A well screened top soil is more beneficial long term. 👍

[deedowney]

I'm not clear what blend of grass seed you're using? I'm hoping to enhance a weak stand of Bermuda grass, also fill unlevel areas. Thanks

[rickwhitehill]

Used it once and never had so many weeds before

[OG-dpkx]

Would've been good to see the end result