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Talkback: How to maintain your lawn

algarra1949algarra1949 Posts: 1
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I have bought a lawn rake and scarifier which has got 5 different cutting height settings (positions) available but no instructions or advise as to how to decide which setting to use at the begining.
Can anyone advise me. Please!!
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  • MoonfaceMoonface Posts: 2
    Worth watching
  • ukjay1ukjay1 Posts: 3
    Nice One Chris - very informative but I daren't dig a big square hole in my lawn!
  • gardenfriendlygardenfriendly Posts: 2
    Very informative.
  • plantplant Posts: 4
    good thank u
  • paul Gibbspaul Gibbs Posts: 1
    when can you start to mow your lawn
  • jan payjan pay Posts: 1
    would have been good vidio if it didn't keep stopping.
  • DeeJaydDeeJayd Posts: 2
    Good advice but I would like to see an update on the lawn taken at various times after 'the afternoon'. Please. :@)
  • Jane McGuireJane McGuire Posts: 1

    Do you need to do this every year? It's expensive!  image

  • SavvySalliSavvySalli Posts: 9

    I paid £20 for a Qualcast Electric scarifier from Ebay.  It's brilliant, and you should see the huge piles of moss I'm getting out of the lawn, and how the grass has perked up in just three days.  The settings vary from a leaf collector where the wheel and tines are higher to scarification where the tines scratch into the soil, approx 2 mm.  I've been very tough on this lawn, the moss is thick, and I've worked with the lowest setting and still it's not getting through the moss for three or four runs in some parts.

    I've ordered some Eco Lawn Seed which contains microclover and I'm hoping will a) feed the lawn, b) outcompete the moss, and c) help it withstand the rigours of a young and huge Bernese Mountain dog!  I'll oversow with that and next year when it's well established I shouldn't be scrarifying two or three wheelie bins full of moss and thatch! 

    As the grass wasn't growing (thanks to thatch, moss and said dog!) I haven't even serviced the mower yet! 

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