Yes, my grass needs to be de thatch, but how?
Question:is there any professional way or technich in removing thatch in my grass? ( or shall i scratch it until it get bald, anyway a new grass will off spring?) please help tnx..
Answers:
I am a manager with scotts, and i highly recommend not having your lawn dethatched unless it absolutely needs it. And i hope your not doing it now, in the heat of the summer. You will expose your lawn to all types of problems ie: weeds, crabgrass, possible disease and insect problems. You want to wait to the fall to do any type of yard work like that. Dethatching or power raking, pulls up alot of dead matter but it also pulls out alot of good grass as well. So depending on how much thatch you get rid of youll leave your lawn thin, which youll possible have to overseed. I could go on and on, but dont have your lawn dethatched unless you have to. An aeration will do just as good of a job and do about 100% less damage to your lawn. Remember you want about a 1/2 inch layer of thatch.
What a thatch layer does is shades the crowns of the grass plants, holding in moisture. But when that layer gets over an inch then that layer is preventing nutrients, air and water from reaching the soil. So dethatch if you want, but it does alot of damage to your lawn. Let me know if you have any other lawn questions i can answer for you.
Most every tool and equipment rental place carries dethatchers for rent. They look like a push lawn mower, but they only dethatch and do not cut the lawn.
As stated above, or you can buy a thatcher blade for your lawnmower. Its basically a flat blade with springs on the end that rake thru the grass. You have to be careful not to stop in one place though or you will scalp.
We just hired a lawn company to do ours. They used a plain old rake and whipped thru it - thinning it out a bit. In the past we have used aerator machines rented from a local place. I've also heard that are aeration shoes that you can walk over your grass with.
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