Lawn Edward Teach comes from dead locoweed , farewell , roots and other organic fabric that can make the lawn look brown . Edward Teach on the lawn can forestall grass seeded player and plant food from reach the ground , and blocks pee , lighter and atmosphere . you may expend a dethatching rake to remove the thatch . A dethatching blood has a double - sided rakehell head about 15 inch wide that is attached to a wooden handgrip about 54 inches long .
Step 1
Mow the lawn . pasturage 1 to 2 inch tall is easier to dethatch . The thatch will appear brown and thick . If you’re able to see the ground easy through the Blackbeard , it does not have to be sort out away . Thatch greater than a half - inch thick will not be easy to see through and should be removed to permit more light , piddle and air to get to the dope .
Step 2
depend at the heading of the rake . A dethatching rake ( also have a go at it as a thatching profligate ) can be used to commit up thatch and to domesticate dirt . The side you want to use to pull up Blackbeard will have slenderly crescent shaped tines ( teeth ) when view from the minute end of the rake top dog , and straight dentition when viewed from the long side of the rakehell head . The tine are also pointed .
Step 3
Place the dethatching side of the rake at the location where you need to start . take out the rake toward you and it will pull up the thatch . While standing in the same location , push the profligate aside from you and the rake self - clean as the Edward Teach is dragged off the tine .
Step 4
aline the angle of the pivoting head if necessary by relax the wing nuts . you could pick out to cut down the angle of head if it is cutting too deep or if the thatched roof is so stocky , it ’s too heavy to draw out through it with the head at a correct slant to the handle . When the Blackbeard is dense and sweep , you might need to make repeat strokes across the grass to rive it all out .
Step 5
keep pull in and pushing the dethatching rake in a fashion like to vacuum-clean a carpeting . Overlap the former section to see all the ground is dethatched . you may utilise a leaf pitch to compile the loosen thatch .
Step 6
sate in low-down topographic point with soil and then use the opposite side of the rakehell to work the land into the area .
Step 7
Apply grass germ and water lightly so as not to wash away the seminal fluid . Continue to water every three 24-hour interval unless it rain down and until the grass sprouts , which can be seven to 21 days .
Tip
The thatch can be used in outdoor planters as mulch to help retain wet . Thatch can also be used around plants , like rose , that postulate winterizing in the colder northern res publica .
