On Sep 5, 9:14 am, "jthread" wrote:
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I recently purchased a house in Northern Colorado with a neglected
lawn. This lawn has not received water all summer and currently has a
large variety and volume of weeds. There are a few green spots, but
not many. I've been told that grass is resiliant and can be reovered.

Is this project worth tackling this late in the year or wait til
spring? First freeze is a couple months away.

I plan to pick the weeds first, then dethatch, then areate, then water
heavily. What steps would you add or subtract from this?

What lawn care products are recommended to help this along?

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Impossible to say without knowing what kind of grass you have. It
could be an excellent grass that is dormant from lack of water and
will come back fine. Or it could be there was not any decent grass
there to begin with and what was there is mostly dead.

If you plan on salvaging what's there, I wouldn't dethatch and aerate
now, as it will only stress what's left even more short term. What
makes you think you even need to dethatch? Did you verify there is a
thatch problem? I'd probably just water first, wait a couple weeks,
and then decide. I don't know how big the lawn is, but I wouldn't be
dealing with weeds by picking them. Use a herbicide.

If what was there was crap even when it was growing, then I'd kill it
all with Roundup, then re-seed about 10 days later, after mowing
short, raking all loose debris, aerating. Then use a slice seeder.
Make sure the soil is decent, or else you may want to till in organic
matter first. And check PH.

Google lawn renovation.