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Old 12-02-2010, 08:40 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Renovating lawn without chemicals

On Feb 7, 3:05*pm, 4x4rob wrote:
to make it abit cheaper then we sometimes just kill the old grass/weeds
with spray (gallup 360) wait till it dies off then rotorvate it , rake
aera out


And how much back braking work is it to rake out clumps of dead turf
after it's all rototilled into one big mess? Geez, why does everyone
want to do it the hard way?


and re seed if you want a good job on your lawn you really cant
try to do it to cheaply

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4x4rob


I've re-seeded dozens of lawns by using glyphosate (Roundup), waiting
about 2 weeks until it's all dead, then mowing short, raking up the
debris, then using a slit seeder to apply the seed. Worked every
time, no fuss, no muss.

I can see tilling the whole thing up IF the soil is poor and you want
to add amendments. But for a lawn where the existing topsoil is OK,
the above procedure is effective, easy, and cheap.