2023 Lawn Thread

Author
Discussion

Hobo

5,550 posts

233 months

Yesterday (15:43)
quotequote all
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.

renmure

3,956 posts

211 months

Yesterday (17:41)
quotequote all
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.
Bad form to quote myself but.... I just checked with the landscaping contractors I'll be using for my front lawn and they confirmed they will be putting down stuff to kill the moss before scarifying a couple of week later then testing the soil before deciding on the seeding and feeding thereafter. They still estimate 2 men for 2 full days to do the scarifying.

Stedman

7,074 posts

179 months

What grass seed are people using?

I’ve previously used Lawnsmith but fancy a change.

Thanks.

Dr Mike Oxgreen

3,931 posts

152 months

I use the “quality hard-wearing” seed from The Grass Seed Store. They do several lawn mixes, including a finer one if you want.