You may have heard that dethatching is important to keep your lawn thriving, but you might not know exactly what it is or what the process entails. Simply put, dethatching a lawn involves removing ...

Knowing how to dethatch a lawn can give you healthier grass all year round. But it helps to understand what causes thatch and why it’s a problem before you learn how to remove it. Thatch is a layer of ...

Q: Is it too cold to dethatch my Bermuda grass lawn? Do I have to wait until next year? What about overseeding? Is it also too late? If I need to wait, then when? A: It is not too late to dethatch in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. scarifying a lawn with a machine Scarifying and dethatching are both useful tasks that can improve the health and overall ...

Dr. James Beard’s Turfgrass Encyclopedia defines thatch “as an intermingled organic layer of dead and living shoots, stems, and roots of grasses that develops between the turf canopy of green ...

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 ...

If you suffered from “winter kill” last year or the year before, there are a few things you can begin to do to prepare for winter. Any grass can get winter damage; however, around here centipede gets ...

Question: We live in the south and have a zoysia grass lawn. It feels spongy when we walk on it. We have been told that thatch is growing. It costs a lot to dethatch a lawn. Is it very harmful to the ...