Okay I'm sick of using a manual dethatching rake and have been trying to make up my mnd on a power dehatcher. It looks like the only ones anywhere even remotely within our budget are the Craftsman and the Greenworks electric ones. Any of you guys use either one? Thoughts?
i have no experence with either....but i have found that dethatchers are one of thoes tools that i'm much better off renting once every year or two. a good quality one rents for under 60$ a half day. of course if you have a lot of yard AND it needs dethatching a few times a year , then it's a different story.
Mulching when I'm just maintaining height. Bagging if it gets too tall. It's not so much the thatch itself, but the moss needing to be removed after I kill it. It's going to be a yearly battle with this yard. That and the damned crabgrass. Pulled 50-something of those bastards today alone.
but the moss needing to be removed after I kill it. It's going to be a yearly battle with this yard. That and the damned crabgrass. Pulled 50-something of those bastards today alone.
Crabgrass killer can only kill the plants themselves. Won't kill the seeds. For those you need a preemergent herbicide and to just keep on top of pulling the plants when they appear.
The moss is a constant battle. I can keep killing what appears and putting down preventative, but to get rid of it completely I need to kill it and then physically remove it, then get grass growing dense enough to choke out future moss growth. Nitrogen based fertilizer helped slow it down considerably (that and sprinkling chinchilla poop over the mossy areas to stunt it. Go ahead and laugh) this year, but until it's actually GONE and kept gone, it's gonna keep making those areas look like butt.
Another question on the subject of dethatching, now that I got our old lawn mower running (had to completely tear down the Briggs & Stratton on it, but it runs now), has anyone used a dethatching blade on their lawnmower? Good results or crappy?
i've looked at them...here, i have a seriously bad problem with moss! they look like more of a maintance thing- something that thru weekly use will almost keep up with the moss. i have a small lawn and use an electric, which i suspect that are under powered to run one of these. i would love to find out i'm wrong about this, because it would be much simpler to just bolt one on and use that for both cut n mulch. save on the hassel of running out to a rental place at the beggining of each grow season
