Early spring may feel like the right moment to refresh your yard, but dethatching is rarely the first task Southern lawns ...

Fall is a great time to restore your lawn before winter to prepare it for successful spring growth. Before you spread grass seed, you may need to take a rake to your lawn to remove the brown layer of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Darlac scarifier scarifying lawn It’s all too easy to allow a lawn to get out of hand. Dead cuttings, mosses and other natural ...

Your spring lawn routine might be doing more damage than you think.

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Homeowners generally assume that raking the leaves off their lawn is a necessary fall maintenance task — but is that actually true? Well … it depends. Raking leaves does offer a number of advantages, ...

Dethatching your lawn has numerous benefits. But if you’re not sure what dethatching is or how to do it, you may be wondering if it’s really worth all the effort. To shed light on dethatching, lawn ...

Core aeration is an important maintenance task for maintaining a lawn and I prefer it over power raking. A power rake is a machine with rotating tines that mechanically lift and remove thatch, which ...

A layer of dead organic material on your lawn, called thatch, is great in moderation. A thin layer of thatch acts as a buffer that keeps the soil moist, regulates its temperature, and adds nutrients ...