Fairfield county, Ct. Left is after mow and dethatch on sept 14 or so. Right is today after I cut it at a high length. Follows this subreddit for a few months to learn how to do it. Thanks for the useful information.
– used some cheap dethatch machine I found online, it worked sufficiently well
– raking up all the dead thatch is the most work
– overseed with tall fescue mix John green from some nursery
– set up 3 sprinklers on timers and ran them for 20 mins 2-3x a day for a couple weeks. It’s very Sun exposed so ran longer than recommended.
Dethatch and overseed took about 6-8 hours of work, dug up many many weeds, entire sections of crabgrass and all. I know it’s not perfect compared to yalls but more than I could hope for. Thanks again for the advice
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I’m posting here bc I’ve been staring at my lawn all day and my wife told me to get a life
Lol this funny but i like what your have done
My wife may say this in spring lol
Looks great, I’d gladly trade for that.
And now the addiction will start lol
Been doing this for a while, its very satisfactory. I need to redo some over-seeding, rains washed away seed in my repair spots.
Congrats man, looks great.
Did you add top soil or get the seed down in the dirt in some way? Im hoping to do a similar sized area next spring and the spreding of the dirt is what seems like the biggest time consumer to me..