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Help please for my lawn!
Catherine 980
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Hi everyone. I've been toiling to save my large moss-ridden lawn for ages and am losing the will to live!!
I've killed loads of moss and then scarified twice, filling around 20 large sacks/bin liners with dead black moss. Some areas have grown back beautifully but the central areas of the lawn are just hard and bare - there is still a solid layer of dead thatch of some sort and my adding top soil and grass seed has not done a thing. Should I rip up the approx 2 inch layer of dead stuff and replace with new top soil and seed? Or rake the dead stuff and keep trying? The area is huge and I'm despairing! I was also thinking of getting a lawn man in to hollow tine - maybe in the Autumn? We have clay soil as you may have guessed.
Any advice is welcome. Thank you!
I've killed loads of moss and then scarified twice, filling around 20 large sacks/bin liners with dead black moss. Some areas have grown back beautifully but the central areas of the lawn are just hard and bare - there is still a solid layer of dead thatch of some sort and my adding top soil and grass seed has not done a thing. Should I rip up the approx 2 inch layer of dead stuff and replace with new top soil and seed? Or rake the dead stuff and keep trying? The area is huge and I'm despairing! I was also thinking of getting a lawn man in to hollow tine - maybe in the Autumn? We have clay soil as you may have guessed.
Any advice is welcome. Thank you!
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