What is Thatch???
Thatch is mostly dead grass that builds up on top of the soil that your grass is rooted in, and forms a thick layer on the soil. Thatch builds up naturally over time and prevents essential nutrients from penetrating the soil and roots of your lawn. Aerating your lawn helps with thatch by opening up the lawn by spiking holes in the lawn that allow nutrients to penetrate below the surface of the lawn. Dethatching works complimentary with aerating by pulling up this thick coat of dead grass so that essential nutrients such as sun, water, oxygen, seed, and fertilizer can penetrate the lawn. When you have a thick layer of thatch on your lawn, most of the nutrients you give your lawn will not penetrate the soil, and therefore will blow off, be eaten by animals, etc. Even if you bag the lawn clippings when you cut your grass, thatch will build up overtime. You would be amazed at how much thatch our machine will pull up!
We offer two options for dethatching!
If you are looking to save some money, we can simply run our high quality dethatcher over your lawn, which will pull up the thatch, and leave it for you to rake and bag.
Otherwise, we do the complete job of dethatching your lawn and raking (and bagging) the thatch.
The BEST process this Spring for your lawn:
If you are looking to save some money, we can simply run our high quality dethatcher over your lawn, which will pull up the thatch, and leave it for you to rake and bag.
Otherwise, we do the complete job of dethatching your lawn and raking (and bagging) the thatch.
The BEST process this Spring for your lawn:
- DETHATCH: we use our dethatcher on your lawn and rake and bag the thatch
- AERATE: once the lawn is dethatched, we aerate the lawn to both open up the lawn/soil by spiking holes in your lawn but these cores are then spread on top of the lawn, circulating more nutrient enriched soil on top of your grass (to naturally top dress your lawn)
- SEED AND FERTILIZE: how that the lawn is aerated and dethatched, it is the PERFECT TIME to nourish your lawn with high quality nutrients! These products will be much more effective in penetrating the lawn
- BLACK LOAM: if your lawn is in need of a real boost of nutrients, we can deliver and spread 1 cubic yard of high quality nutrient-enriched black loam over your lawn (and garden)
