2023 Lawn Thread
Discussion
Recent house move and the lawn/s are in a terrible state, spongy everywhere and full of moss & thatch. I signed up with GreenThumb back in November, so they are here next week to to scarify & aerate, and then apply a spring treatment.
Am hoping to have a lawn in reasonable condition for summer.
Am hoping to have a lawn in reasonable condition for summer.
renmure said:
dhutch said:
Yes, I'm with Robbie of Premier Lawns on this.
Unlike other weeds, moss has no roots, your just killing the foliage which comes in contact with the iron. Mechanical scarifiers will rake the whole whole lawn with enough power to fetch out most moss dead or alive, unlike spot raking by hand. At which point there seems to me to be no advantage to kill the moss you are going to remove anyway. Better to remove the bulk of what you can, get it out of the way, and then treat what is left and and what can't easily be raked out, to stop it spreading back.
I know nothing about moss, other than I have a full lawn of it and can literally pick lumps of it up without disturbing the soil, so that reads like sense to me. Unlike other weeds, moss has no roots, your just killing the foliage which comes in contact with the iron. Mechanical scarifiers will rake the whole whole lawn with enough power to fetch out most moss dead or alive, unlike spot raking by hand. At which point there seems to me to be no advantage to kill the moss you are going to remove anyway. Better to remove the bulk of what you can, get it out of the way, and then treat what is left and and what can't easily be raked out, to stop it spreading back.
I use the “quality hard-wearing” seed from The Grass Seed Store. They do several lawn mixes, including a finer one if you want.
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