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renedrag · 03-07-2008, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by gavin[_2_]

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:35:16 GMT, "gavin"
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My lawn has a lot of moss in it so I thought it would be a good idea to
have
a go at raking it out. However, I had forgotten what hard work it is with
a
grass rake! I was sweating cobs tonight and only did a small part of the
lawn - and then the heavens opened and rescued me :-)

I was wondering if an implement such as the one here

http://www.gardenandleisure.com/products/wsands15.html

would do the trick? Has anyone used something like this? How effective are
they - and more to the point how much less effort are they than a hand
rake?

You could get an electric-powered one for not much more money.

BTW you may well find that scarifying will spread the moss and make
the problem worse unless you treat and kill the moss first.

I did spread (supposedly!) moss killing granules a week or so ago.

I use a Mantis scarifire on small lawns as I find this the most affective machine for the job,you maybe able to hire one.It's much more aggresive than the eletric machines.If your mower can pick up the debris thats pulled out when you scarify you either haven't got much moss and thatch or your machine isn't doing a proper job.If your lawn hasn't been scarified before be prepared for a huge amount of rubbish to be pulled out and as you've just applied moss killer you won't be able to compost it,so it's of to the local tip.