"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Muddymike" wrote
My front lawn is more moss than grass at present so I plan to hire a 4
stroke scarifier from the local machinery hire place. Question is. When
is the best time? Is it too early to do it now?

The chap on the allotment next to ours earns his living out of lawns and
he said last week "it's that scarifying time of year". Just done ours, but
the old fashioned way. :-)

We call it de-thatching here, in Calgary, and do it every year. With our
winters, the lawn dies off and is completely brown until April (I still have
a bit of snow cover and flurries are expected this w/e). We wait until the
lawn starts to thaw out and green up so it'll probably be late April or
early May before mine gets done.
Graham