What's going on everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Epic

Gardening podcast. As always, my name is Kevin and today I am answering a

question from Travis. He says, I live in Sandy So area. I'm trying to improve the quality of my yard. I was thinking

about adding peat to my yard on top of my grass, but is there a good way to spread it?

I was looking at rollers, spreaders, or is there a good way to spread it? I was looking at rollers, spreaders,

or is there a better way to improve the quality of the yard?

Great question, and for people who are suffering

from maybe to sandy soil to clay soil,

there are a lot of different remedies but this is an

interesting one because we're talking about the soil in Travis's yard. So the

first thing you're going to want to do is actually aerate the soil.

And I have a recommendation guide on my website

about the best aerators.

So you can do it either by hand or you can get a machine aerator.

But you're going to want to do a nice core aeration because if you're going to top

dress with let's say Pete to fix Travis's sandy soil issue, you want some of that top dressing to be able to penetrate the surface of the lawn.

And that's very difficult to do if you don't aerate and do some core aeration because obviously it would just sit on the top of the lawn and it wouldn't

go into and penetrate the soil to change that composition from pure sand to a bit more water retention.

Now, if you do a classic top dressing on the lawn what you want to do

usually is use something like a combination of sand loam or topsoil and then peat or compost.

But in Travis's situation particularly, he would obviously want to

avoid that sand. So if I was him, I would probably add a bit of topsoil and peat, maybe at a 2 to 1 ratio of the peat to the topsoil if he has extremely sandy soil.

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