Lawn Top Dressing Rake
Top dressing your lawn is an age old practice on golf courses.
Lawn top dressing rake. Top dressing your lawn is an age old practice on golf courses. Hand rake the compost lightly with a leaf rake to help it settle through the grass. Ames 16 tine welded bow rake 626 model 2825300 15 98. The price was a hefty 925 00 for doing just the front yard since the side yard and back yard sloped more than 14 degrees preventing their high tech hopper spreader from dispersing the sand.
Harrms level lawn levelawn 5ft lawn leveling rake heavy duty soil lawn leveler tool stainless steel lawn push for yard golf 3 5 out of 5 stars 2 65 99 65. In a wheelbarrow mix up a batch of leveling mix. For ornamental lawns top dressing should be part of your lawn care program. Razor back 24 tine steel rake 689 model 2915200 19 98.
De thatch the lawn with a garden rake or de thatcher. It s best to aerate during the cool months of spring or fall especially after a rain that softens the soil. Many lawns develop thatch. Although top dressing an entire lawn with a manual tool is very labor intensive the levelawn did very well in this task and i would highly recommend it.
When top dressing lawns you will gain the best results when it is combined with other cultural practices. In which case stick to just 1kg per square meter. Allow the plugs to dry and break down on the lawn. A piece of wood can be attached to your rake to make a simple garden leveller to be used when top dressing your lawn.
Thatch is not soil but an organic layer consisting of shed roots grass stems and other grass debris that develops on the soil surface. Apply scoops of soil mix to low areas of the lawn using a shovel. Razor back 15 tine forged bow rake 421 model 2853900. Rake the topdressing to spread it out evenly.
Without a doubt i was able to get a much better end product than simply using the backside of a garden rake for the entire project. Apply 1 4 1 2 of soil mixture on top of the low areas. Top sellers most popular price low to high price high to low top rated products. This is called trickle dressing and works into the lawn better improves the decomposition of lawn thatch and is much less noticeable on fine lawns.
Multitask by spreading seed or fertilizer on top of the compost. My video shows you how to attach this p.