Lawn scarifying
Just scarified my lawn today. Brought from e bay a scarifying blade with a spring tine at either end, two years ago. It simply replaces the cutting blade on a rotary mower. They come in different lengths to fit your mower. Adjustment is by the blade cutting
height. Just be careful and dont put on too low or you will take too much off. I find it easier to scarify without the box. and then replace with the ordinary blade and pick up the thatch. You will be surprised how much moss comes off. Leaves the lawn looking
much better than aplying moss killer and the ugly black patches afterwards. Once the weather warms will give a simple dose of fertiliser and weed killer and thats it for the season. Was quite surprised how well the ground had dried after the winter monsoons.
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Our grass is like a bog due to the continuos rain over the last few months. We have no chance of doing anything to the lawn for a while yet.
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A little early to be scarifying yet, ideally Mid March when the it should be starting to get a little warmer and things are starting to grow .as you will need to feed the lawn as well with a good spring fertiliser. The best thing you can do now is to fork
your lawn this will encourage the roots of your grass to go down and not cause the thatch.don't cut to short to early as this will encourage moss ...hope this help's.0 -
Rice would grow better than our back lawn at present, squelches when you walk across it.
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I scarify my lawn twice a year, once in early spring late March early April, and again in autumn around October. I use a fertiliser called After Cut throughout spring and summer and have always had good results.
The grass hasn’t stopped growing this winter, albeit very slowly and really could do with a cut but like others have said its too wet.
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I have my own gardening business and have just started to use Mo Bactor it promises to be the holy grail of lawn treatment. Used it once on a few lawns at the end of last year and the results look promising.
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Think we are just scratching the surface with this thread
Oh I don't know. I think it's a cut above the rest.
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No need for the fancy stuff. G toyour local Farmers Co op. For £12-50 you can get 25 kilos of 15/15/15 granular fertiliser. Will do for allyour gardening needs. To meet terrorists legislation you will need to provide Driv Lic/Passport and Utility Bill.
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Our grass looks like it is 3 feet high, too wet to walk on it, so it will have to wait until we get back from Broadway in 10 days time
Admiral
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A friend who was a green keeper told me that it was advantageous to cut grass throughout the year. He also said that the cuttings should not be removed, just mow whenever growth has occurred but never leaving this until the grass had grown much longer than the required length. He even said that mowing during frosty conditions, if that gave a hard surface to work on, would do little if any harm and sometimes was a necessity. Apparently the growth bud in grass is at the soil level just above the roots and not, like most plants, in the uppermost tip of the leaf.
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