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Old 15-04-2007, 10:24 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stephen Stewart Stephen Stewart is offline
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Default Scarify lawn before weed feed'n mosskill?


"Lobster" wrote in message
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My lawn is in a total state; needs scrapping and returfing but I'm not
about to do that now - just want a quick and dirty solution to make it
look a bit better for this season, So I'm going to give it a dose of weed
feed and mosskill (ie, all one dose), after which presumably it will need
scaryfing to get rid of all the dead stuff.

Question - would it be a good idea or not to scarify before dosing? I'm
thinking yes to get rid of as much biomass as possible first, but no
because maybe the moss etc all needs to be intact for the killer to work
properly?

Thanks
David


I had heard that scarifying helps spread the moss when it's alive so you're
better to wait until the mosskiller has had it's effect before scarifying.

Whether this is true or not I'm not sure but there's certainy no harm in
scarifying afterwards.


Stephen