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You are here: Home / Lawn Care & Landscaping / Dethatching A Lawn

Dethatching A Lawn

April 9, 2009

I know I am probably beating a dead horse here, but I wanted to post a few photos of today’s lawn dethatching.

Yesterday, I showed you some photos of dethatching the front lawn. Today, I am going to show you some photos of the back yard getting dethatched. I know, very exciting.

Actually, I dethatched the entire front area along the road as well as behind the house. That took a lot to do. This dethatcher works wonders. I pulled up so much dead grass, I couldn’t believe it. I am slowly learning about all the goodies the real guys use to make lawns look good. When I was riding the tractor, towing the dethatcher, the lawn looked like it was being rototilled because there was so much of a mess behind me. Believe it or not, this dethatcher really doesn’t mess with the good grass. That grass is really rooted in there. It just pulls up all the dead weeds and everything else that shouldn’t be there.

Here are some photos of dethatching the back yard.

Back yard after it was dethatched

Back yard after it was dethatched

Dead crabgrass pulled up by the dethatcher

Back yard after dethatched material was picked up by lawn mower rear bagger

Freshly dethatched and cleaned up lawn area – one of the worst areas – hardly any good grass

Sorry, I forgot to get the before shots.


If you look closely, you can see all the dead material on top of the grass. One time around the back yard basically filled up both rear bags on the mower. It’s crazy how much stuff came up. Take a look at the last photo. That area was totally covered with dead crabgrass, not it’s all cleaned up and ready for this season.

Come September, I am going to dethatch the lawn once more and then I’m going to aerate the heck out of it. After that, I am going to put down seed where it’s needed. Boy, they weren’t kidding when they said it takes a few years to get a nice lawn.

Related posts:

  1. Brinly 40 Inch Tow-Behind Dethatcher
  2. Mulching Leaves Into Lawn
  3. Dethatching, Aerating and Overseeding Lawn
  4. What Is It With Me and Grass?
  5. Scotts Lawn Service For A Greener Lawn

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