1: A Determine whether your lawn should dethatched. Power lawn scarifiers for your lawn is stressful and should be used only when necessary. Take a sample of grass and earth and measure the spongy layer of felt in-between that of organic materials like grass, pine needles, leaves and roots. They may vary in different areas of the test building can. If there is a half an inch deep, think dethatching soon. It 'absolutely necessary if there is an obligation ormore.
2: If you decide to rent, whether on loan or have power aerator or hire a professional to do it for you. Lawn Ripper look like a power lawn mowers, but are usually much heavier and more vertical pins, destroy straw layers without having to cut the grass. Why have the height and distance of the blade to the right place, you can drive a bit 'difficult if you're not used. You must be able to do a lawn in the middle period typical day rental cost is about$ 60 to $ 80, or about $ 100 – $ 125 for 8 hours if you have a big lawn.
3rd Level dethatch at the right time. You do not want the soil too dry or too wet. Since grass is difficult, it takes time to recover, at least two or three weeks of the season of active growth before the weather too hot or too cold and dry. Typically, early spring and late autumn are the best.
4 and Prep your lawn and turf care, the collection of other materials. You want your lawn cut about half its normalHeight. If you want overseeder (great idea) (fertilize a good idea) and / or topdress (necessary but not a benefit to many fields and help many, although there is out), these materials are readily available.
5: set-up and Thatcher. If you go to take lawn Thatcher, will help you hire the blade height or distance. Hot for grass, reduce height by about ½ inch of grass with a knife, 1-2 inches away. As cold weather grasses are thin bladesThe distance can be increased to between 3 cm and the height can be adjusted by ¼ inch. How did you dethatching, you can create small patches if needed.
6: and go over each area more than once. For best performance and results across different models in each area. Consider always using a manual rake dethatching in the corners and get more moss.