Um, they can be applied the same day. Disregard -any- advice
Diespammer gives, he's truely clueless.


"RoyDMercer" wrote:
In his case I don't think it would be necessary to wait that long.
Normally you would wait a while before fertilizing because the lime needs
to have time to work to enable the grass to absorb the nutrients you are
supplying in the fertilizer application. However in his case the primary
reason he needs the lime is to help with his moss problem.

"DIE SPAMMER !!!" wrote in message
...
I think you are suppose to lime and wait like 6 weeks before
fertilizing
or vice
versa

Pucky Loucks wrote:

Thanks Roy, That's awesome. We just moved in and it looks like the
lawn
has never really had any TCL. lots of thatch, moss, weeds, burnt
areas too. It also looks like the last people tried to fix some bare
spots with different types of grass, big clumps of odd grass. (all in
all a nightmare, but I'm willing) the lawn has direct sunlight all
day, but I'm not sure the grass type(s).

So here is my plan so far.

1) dethatch (2 days)
2) lime (I don't have a drop spreader just the spray kind is that ok)
(3 days)
3) weed and feed (5 days)
4) mow often as you said. (as often as needed)

The reason I put days in, is I've been told that a lime aplication is
done early morning for about three days. and the same for the weed
and feed. I totally have no idea.

Located Victoria, BC. Canada (west coast weather)

Pucky

RoyDMercer wrote:
A PH of 6 is not too bad, but more than likely your lawn could
benefit
from
a lime application once per year. Most turf grasses are happiest
with
a PH
of around 6.5, but there are a few exceptions. You didn't specify
your
grass type. The symptom of a lawn with too low PH is the lawn will
not
green up properly even after fertilizer is applied. If your lawn
greens up
nicely when you apply fertilizer, you really don't have a problem
with
soil
PH as far as the grass itself is concerned, however lowering the
soil
PH
will probably help with your moss problem. Iron sulfate will also
help with
moss. When you fertilize look for fertilizer with iron. Check the
active
ingredients and you should find iron sulfate or ferrous sulfate.

You can apply lime with or without thatch. It really doesn't
matter.
The
lime is going to eventually soak into the soil even if there is
thatch,
although thatch may slow down the process. If you have thatch, it
sounds
like this is your biggest problem and you should address it first.

If you have the capability of bagging, you may want to do that for
a
few
months until the thatch problem has been eraticated completely. If
you are
using a mulching lawn mower, make sure you mow often and don't take
too much
off at any one time. Thatch usually happens because of poor mowing
habits.
If you are not mulching or bagging, you should be. However even if
you are
mulching, you should be mowing as often as you should because if
you
try to
take off too much, you are going to overwhealm the mulching system
of
your
mower. Some people think that if you mow your grass low, you won't
have to
mow as often. Actually the reverse is true. For instance let's
say I
want
to mow 1" off my grass, if I mow my lawn when it is 2" tall and I
mow
to 1",
I'm taking off 50% of the total grass which is a bad thing. If I
mow
my
lawn when it's 4" and I mow it to 3", I'm only taking off 25% which
is
OK.
Different grass types like to be mowed at different heights, so
research
what type of grass you have to find out the recommended mowing
heights.

"Pucky Loucks" wrote in message
news:uEXgc.50994$dg7.48531@edtnps84...

Hello, I've just started my very first lawn project ever. Very
excited
about it. I just tested my soil and it's ph is 6 considered
acidic. I've got a pretty good go of thatch and moss. Should I
lime it first and then dethatch? or dethatch and then lime?

I would think that dethatch would be first to open up the ground,
but
I
just want to make sure I don't over look any thing.

Thanks, Hope someone can give me a clue. would like to make this a
hobby.

Pucky