Dethatching is good for your lawn just like how watering is need for your grass to grow. What is Dethatching? Dethatching is when you take up dead organic matter, sticks, moss, dead grass, rhizomes, fungi and anything else non-living or organic in the grass. You rake up the dead grass to expose the soil to promote root growth for your grass. When raking up the organic matter the root system spreads to cover the bare soil which will make the grass fuller when the grass starts to grow back. Dethatching the lawn also lets the fertilizers, nutrient, soil amendments, and water that you use for the garden get down into the soil. You can dethatch the lawn twice a year. This is typically done in the growing season, because of the stress the lawn will go through. You can dethatch the lawn in the spring, and you can dethatch your lawn again in the fall. These are the best time to dethatch, because it’s not extreme heat or extreme cold for long periods of time. When you dethatch your lawn, the grass is under tremendous stress. The organic matter that come out the lawn you can also you in your garden beds for organic natural mulch as it breaks down or it can be composted. After you dethatch your lawn, you may need to seed the lawn. It depends on the pattern of how the grass grows back, but you can also throw down seed to help the lawn fill in the bare spots. Using the appropriate fertilizer application, nutrient or soil amendments after dethatching helps the lawn bounce back from the stress. Dethatching is healthy for your lawn in the season and gets better with time. To prevent thatch you must dethatch regularly, do not use a lot of chemicals on your lawn because it will build up salt in the soil which will promote dead grass and fungus. Have a lawn care program in place to keep your lawn on a schedule that will help it grow green thick and healthy.
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