09-09-2003, 11:55 PM
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Lawn; Thinking of starting from scratch
(Seymour) wrote:
I live in southern New Jersey. My lawn is just awful, bare spots,
crabgrass, uneven ground, hard ground, black and red ants. I've spent
the last 2 years trying to improve it by fertilizing, seeding, weed
and feed, Scott's lawn soil. It seems the more I try, the worse it
gets. The crab grass halter I put down in the spring didn't do
anything.
I'm thinking of borrowing my father's Rototiller and diggin the whole
thing up and overseeding it. Anybody agree? I would think that this
is a good time to do it.
Please advise.
As an aside, you don't need to till real deep, two inches is plenty.
The drawback to deep tilling is it will have sink holes from rain,
and it won't support foot traffic, or the lawn-mower, without rutting.
Good luck, this is the best time to do it.
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