How To DeThatch A Lawn With A Thatch Rake

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I've dethatched my lawn manually with a thatch rake a handful of times over the past few years. I wanted to share some of the things I've learned along the way to help you use a thatching rake on your own lawn more efficiently.
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@TurfMechanic 8 месяцев назад

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@mejiaeric99 7 месяцев назад

Is a awn atill salvageable if it has been taken over by a variety of weeds over the past few years? Despite my efforts of de thatching, aerating, fertalizing, and over seeding, I can't seem to beat those damm weeds that come out during summer.

@experienceprecision5406 20 часов назад

Setting the angle and pushing it makes the task allot easier and way faster

@rachelpack2708 9 дней назад

There is something so satisfying about this 😂. Thank you for the insight!

@1andonly222 Месяц назад

When he said you’re gonna get extremely tired and exhausted doing this he is not joking!!! It’s euphoric exhaustion I tell ya and I don’t even use a fancy tool like he has. I use a steel rake and my freaking core

@JeffSmith-js8sj 7 дней назад

Hahah!😂

@gordoh7634 Год назад

One of your best and simplest videos as it goes into details on how to use the rake, the different sides of the rake, and when not to use it. And I love the kids using scientific methodologies about which pile is larger. Love that.

@eddieadkins8043 Месяц назад

I can't thank you enough for this video. It was just what I needed to learn how to use the thatch rake I purchased recently. The video is straightforward and to-the-point and overall, very, very helpful. Thank you for making the video.

@faithmatthews830 Год назад

Great advice! Great video! I raked 30 minutes each day my entire yard took about a week. It was hard work but Im better for it. It was good cardio and strength workout free no gym. My lawn is in better shape and so is my body! Was going to buy the Sunjoe but decided not to because this is better for my health. Didn't wear gloves the first day and learned a good hard lesson---wear gloves!!!!

@toliver1468 2 месяца назад

I wish I had seen your comment BEFORE I spent time dethatching my yard. I think I learned the same lesson 🙂

@marchmadness76 Месяц назад

Just got done de thatching my lawn!

@GabrielleCenter2000 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for the information, I have a huge problem with dead grass with burr weeds.

@TheLawnLover Год назад

I love my thatch rake and groundskeeper 2 rake to use in tandem on small areas. I typically go with my electric dethatcher in the fall since those rakes are a workout 😂

@heebahobba5838 23 дня назад

Perfect. Tiny hoa yard, here. I personally love the time I invest in the yard.

@johnbunce9149 2 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing! The video is very nicely done and very helpful.

@dwaynemcallister7231 8 месяцев назад

You are correct, it's hard work. It takes a lot of patience and my lawn had not been dethatched for many years and is about 5000 sq ft. I have heard a about those electric Green Works dethatch machine's, one of those might be less work

@yifanqin_Eis Год назад

Very helpful, thanks!

@iRecordOS Год назад

Rocking that groundskeeper 2. Sitting on about .7 acres. Man I dethatched threw some tall fescue down and some gypsum for the dead clay spots. Sprouted in 4 days. New home owner doing a renovation

@JEK Год назад

Groundskeeper II is the best multi tool I own. I use it more for other things than just dethatch.

@MStar10 Год назад

Like what else?

@DrawnInk1 Год назад

Great vid, just put an order in for one of these tools. Hello from London.

@TurfMechanic Год назад

Awesome to hear, thanks a lot for the comment and good luck with the rake; it's a better workout than any exercise I've ever tried!

@rodgersandrodgers8191 11 месяцев назад

Great videos. Especially for those of us who do not have a vehicle to transport a motorized dethatcher. And for those of us who also enjoy working with our hands. A question I have is, why does fescue not need to be detached? Just curious.

@jvjdrn Год назад

Thanks!

@JohnDoe-yy5cw Год назад

While using a scarifier rake to remove dead grass, is it post to pull out grass stolons/roots during the process? The grass looks like dirt now on my Kikuyu lawn.

@MrCaptainpope Год назад

inherited a st aug lawn when i bought my home. i can see tons of thatch. are thatch rakes ok on this type of grass since it doesnt grow like most other types of grass? im afraid of ruining the stolons.

@briancollins4569 10 месяцев назад

I have the thatching rake he’s using in the video. It’s super labor intensive but works great. Is it reasonable to use this as a “deep clean” and using a groundskeeper rake for the in between rakes? Is this a every time I mow task or once in a while?

@GirLzLawn Год назад

Interesting. I have never seen that particular type of rake. Works well. I plan to start my dethatching this week with the Sunjoe dethatcher. Even with the battery machine it is a ton of work, so I'm breaking it into sections this year.

@pnkpnthr80 Год назад

I follow your channel.... Great video on the ego stripping kit. What are your temps where you are located? I am very ready to dethatch but don't want to stress the grass by cutting it lower in order to dethatch. I was going to wait till at least the 1st week of September to do it. Thanks in advance for your time.

@GirLzLawn Год назад

@@pnkpnthr80 Hi and thank you for the sub. Temps here have been lower 80's during the day and mid 60's at night with some cooler days over the last couple of weeks. I started early because I want to seed early enough to leave me time to do pre-emergent in October.

@pnkpnthr80 Год назад

@@GirLzLawn ahhh got ya.... We're still in the high 80's to low 90's here in NJ. I guess I should according to plan and wait till the 1st week of September. I'm so ready to throw the stripping kit back on. Looking forward to that full on review of the ego stripping kit.

@pnkpnthr80 Год назад

@@GirLzLawn I thought you were in the Carolinas like elevated lawnscapes and Polo Fields.

@GirLzLawn Год назад

@@pnkpnthr80 This is the time where the waiting becomes difficult LOL

@dharyljayneacedera6862 Месяц назад

Hi @TurfMechanic, I was done with herbicide application last 3 weeks ago since I got a lot of weeds then I want to aerate, reseed, fertilize my dead lawn this month. But I noticed I had a lot of old clippings and long dead brown bermuda (especially on the edges and corners) already ingrained into the soil so planning to dethatch to remove them (might use the method in your video). I’m on right track of doing this, right? Or can I skip dethatching? Please advise. Thanks in advance.

@ErossaanBooming 10 месяцев назад

so it is good to expose the soil? I was doing this today and I saw my soil for the 1st time hahaha I though i went in too agressive and that I might have destroyed my grass

@ericksonclayton 9 месяцев назад

Do you have any guidance on when to do the dethatching with the rake in terms of soil or grass moisture? Should i do it when the grass is relatively dry or should i do it after a watering or when it js dewy? I get a decent amount of dew in the morning where i live for example so should i wait until the sun has hit it for a while or go at it then?

@YoureWokeYoureBroke 9 месяцев назад

I’d imagine doing it when the ground is real moist you’d be clogging up those blades with mud skippy

@rodgersandrodgers8191 11 месяцев назад

At 68 years old, I enjoy yard work. Yes, using the rate Thatcher is indeed hard and not easy on my arms. A little bit at a time and it goes fine and dandy.? Another of my money questions I have is, sometimes when I'm doing a dethatch you it also brings up dirt along with pieces of grass which somewhat look like they are alive. Am I doing something wrong when that happens? Thank you.

@uncle7162 10 дней назад

I’m an 18 year old Aussie North Queensland got one today I love it. I was out there for hours it’s late autumn here I use both hands and I just get both arms behind me and drag like a mule works good great for prickles

@mikedunn7795 22 дня назад

You need to be young and strong to use this kind of rake. I am neither,and I have a fairly large lawn. This year,I used a Worx electric dethatcher,and finished the job in about an hour. Using the rake,I would be out all day!

@tofmanagement 2 месяца назад

Do you recommend dethatching St Augustine this time of year in SoCal?

@TurfMechanic 2 месяца назад

not really, st aug rarely needs a dethatching and if you do it it might hinder the turf more than help it.

@NotSoLiberal Год назад

Hi Brian. Is this only for established grass? I feel my grass which is still struggling would suffer if I pull grass blades during the DeThatching

@TurfMechanic Год назад

Definitely not recommend for grass in high levels of stress if you dont want to kill or thin out what makes it through summer...however stressed lawns can be dethatched at summer's end if you are planning on a fall overseed. Get the weak stuff out and dirt exposed and grow new stuff is a viable option. I would heavily recommend however that your fall, winterizer, and spring fert plan is all about increasing turf health though because a healthy stand should be able to make it through summer the way I suggest. I don't fertilize for extreme color or stripes or fast growth, I fertilize for turf health first and foremost in my lawn. Don't be shy, ask any and all questions you want, I answer as much as I can between lawn care, video production and family life...I also have a ton of videos here that can guide you...probably most of them don't conflict with each other either 😅

@NotSoLiberal Год назад

@@TurfMechanic Thank you as always. I botched my transition so my winter rye was fighting for life but also fighting my emerging Bermuda. I'm probably not overseeding this winter to give the Bermuda a chance to come back stronger. Can you recommend some videos that expand on "fertilize for turf health" ? Any keywords to search for ?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

@@NotSoLiberal I should make a playlist but you could start with this one at least, it's not all encompassing but its a good start ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qGi5sT21rs0.html

@markbacon946 Год назад

Hi iv just purchased a thatching rake like the 1 your useing on the video but my lawn is wet and it looks like its just makeing a mess and destroying the lawn i have alot of moss to move

@TurfMechanic Год назад

Yeah, the rake is probably to aggressive for wet soil. Be patient and go slow and rake lightly if you think it's messing everything up to much...when in doubt wait for drier soil.

@brodygoalie 8 месяцев назад

How low do you have to go with mower. I just mowed at 2.5 inches and I believe I need to go lower but I believe I will scalp the grass. Please advise. Thanks

@TurfMechanic 8 месяцев назад

I would go ultra low, as low as you can. It will look horrible for a couple weeks but it will give you a hard reset. It's fine to hard scalp all grass types every now and then. If you do to go that extreme then just go as low as you feel comfortable. Make sure to add a strong dose of fertilizer and water immediately after dethatching to help it recover asap.

@brodygoalie 8 месяцев назад

@@TurfMechanic okay. Will go second lowest which is 2 inches. Using Billy goat dethaching machine. That is tearing up the grass. !

@brodygoalie 8 месяцев назад

@@TurfMechanic going to aerate tomorrow Sunday then overseeding and starter fertilizer. What application do you recommend after the starter fertilizer? I assume about four weeks later? I usually apply Jonathan green winter survival product late October.

@Chicadee713 Год назад

What fertilizer would you be applying after the dethatching?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

This is one of the few times a year I recommend using a liquid urea product heavy in nitrogen just prior to a watering session. I'm using a light dose of 20-0-0 through a hose end sprayer mixed with Hydretain on my lawn right now. I'm not brand specific, so long as it's liquid urea and watered in right away it's just about perfect.

@Chicadee713 Год назад

@@TurfMechanic My grass needs a good dose of something to get it looking good, and I am wondering if the high nitrogen product would work or if something else would work better. We have been having high 90 temps with no rain, and I can't really afford to irrigate often...about every three to four days. The grass is looking rough so what would you do to help it look good again? Please be brand specific...thank you!

@TurfMechanic Год назад

For your specific situation I would recommend buying enough Scott's Natural Lawn Food (11-2-2) to apply 9.7 lbs per 1000 sqft. This will give you just over 1lb nitrogen per 1000 and approximately 0.1lb of that nitrogen will be water soluble so a single irrigation session will get it into the ground and root system quickly. The remainder will not burn in dry soil and will slowly be used all fall. You get a bit of Phos and Potassium but not too much of either. Those will be used in tandem with the Nitrogen throughout the fall. If you are up for spending a bit more then buy a bag of straight SOP off yard Mastery or off Amazon to get a bit extra Potassium on the lawn for the fall...but a heavy dose of Scott's Naturalls will go a long way especially if you can get one good irrigation session on the lawn now.

@Chicadee713 Год назад

@@TurfMechanic Thank you for your help!

@bobbycone2 Месяц назад

Doing this right now because I left my lawn waay to long this past winter and I've got crap tons of dead material. I'm about half way through the lawn and I'm already dead.

@TurfMechanic Месяц назад

I don't envy your situation but at least you're burning a few more calories than you would have otherwise :D

@RichFitzwel Год назад

💪

@Dizzinator2114 Месяц назад

I was trying this in my grass and felt like I was doing it wrong because I started pulling up chunks of grass.

@user-wk8gg2uj8b 22 дня назад

Try doing it on a dry lawn not moist.

@johnjrkean7008 Год назад

Imagine the days when people had only hand tools for there crops n grass ......theres a different feel of gratitude and accomplishment when your blood sweat and tears go into something

@TurfMechanic Год назад

I feel more satisfaction every time I do something manually than I do any other way. Doing it the way with your hands is hard and almost always yields better results even if it is harder

@johnjrkean7008 Год назад

@@TurfMechanic I agree 100% felt that way ever since I was a kid. Thank you for your videos my man

@DanTheLawnMan Год назад

I’m so glad I don’t have to detatch my lawn I feel you guys suffering every time I see you do this from my side.

@davidgonzales-ec8bo Год назад

You're a beast. Lol

@TheCureThatKillz Год назад

Why?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

I eat small animals...raw...that's why...like sushi 😁

@davidgonzales-ec8bo Год назад

@@TheCureThatKillz because thats really hard work.

@kerokero3082 6 месяцев назад

Just did this on a small lawn, get an electric dethatcher 😂

@petery6775 Год назад

why to donot let it composting into soil? interesting is there an long term study to watch dethatched lawn and not. how it perform during 5... 10...15 years ?

@TurfMechanic Год назад

I let things compost in most of the year but usually I dethatch ocassionally once or twice a year or so because the clippings don't decompose into the soil fast enough where I live. We have dry days during the growing season so the excess clippings accumulate faster than they break down. Instead I use excess clippings in garden and compost settings which for me us more reliable and then break down true thatch with liquids throughout the year.

@djratino Год назад

I'm guessing dethatching is unnecessary. I do lawn scalping instead. Then I use a pull-behind aerator. Works for me. 🐀🐾

@TurfMechanic Год назад

Depends on the grass type and environment factors but you are right, many grass types and locations may not need dethatching done much or ever. I core aerate twice a year and that alone is more than most people do to their lawns. For lawns that handle scalping well that's another chore that only people with the best lawns do. In general though most lawns that spread via stolons and/or rhizomes do good with the ocassional dethatching even if it's just once every few years at a minimum.

@josephbohme7917 Год назад

i AM so stuck. i WANT EITHER OF THE 2, BUT WHICH??? I have lots of dead grass and oak leaves, and the creeping fishline weeds, and liquid amber spike balls. The lawn is 22 x 125' AND because of stupid Neutron electric lawn mower, it all collects because the gutless electric has NO VAC power at all... gutless. Yes 2-3 hours gets me over 125 gallon dumpster full of that debris, after the grass. every 60-90 days. Almost 7- and wishing to make an electric. Cant afford the real ones.

@Player16 Год назад

You forgot to mention about it’s ability to self-clean.

@Bon-fj7ct 8 дней назад

It's a complete nightmare. Pay somebody a couple of hundred dollars to do it with a machine. If you have to rob a bank then rob a bank.

@rogeliomartinez9113 Год назад

Just did 3000sq ft yesterday 😴😴

@experienceprecision5406 20 часов назад

Should be called a dead grass rake. Grass clippings aren't thatch nor part of the thatch layer. Only way to actually dethatch is with a lawn aireator. But yeah how to dethatch sounds way better than how to dead grass rake👍. Sorry for being a nerd lol

@JayWC3333 Год назад

According to the tool instructions, you're using the tool wrong. The instructions show the tool hooked towards you and riding on the curve versus the points. Can you tell me why you do this? Thanks.

@TurfMechanic Год назад

I have tried both ways and the way I use it feels better - for me it works better this way. It's just a matter of using it and feeling it out. It's similar to using an electric dethatcher, they tend to work better and feel like they are working better if you pull them backwards rather than push forward. Hope that explains things enough.

@slimdude2011 Год назад

You sure do want people to work hard! Having a lawn that size, a person wouldn't use a manual dethatcher rake, trying to dethatch a lawn that size. It can be physically exhausting and too hard on the body, even for a young person. I can't imagine anyone who's middle age or older trying to use it! A dethatcher rake (like that) is mainly used for small, sectional grass areas, not for acres of land. For a lawn as big as yours, you need a powered dethatcher, which will make the job so much easier and faster. If you even tried to dethatched your lawn with that little rake, it's going to take you a week to dethatch your entire lawn with that rake, and your entire body will be sore from head to toe. Besides, what made you buy that dethatcher rake anyway, when you know you have a huge lawn? They've got dethatcher machines available now, so why do things the hard way, when there is a much easier way to do it.

@ezurmnd Месяц назад

Lowkey my yard is bigger and i just purchased one of these im kinda regreting it now lol

@Acts-1322 Месяц назад

You know, people used to be in great shape and had something called muscles. Now machines do literally everything for us. Maybe he wants to avoid the insulin resistance & metabolic syndrome that plague our modern world. Or maybe it's therapeutic for him. Chill 😎

@mikeo8890 Месяц назад

I've noticed crabgrass grows quickly after dethatching.

@CricketsAreUs 23 дня назад

@mikeo8890 Spread fertilizer and grass seed shortly after thatching and keep up on watering for a couple weeks. New grass will kill out any weeds and crabgrass :)

@keetzb2615 22 дня назад

Oh dear! Well as long as your comment is it probably took as long to type that out 😂 After your body isn’t sore anymore you get stronger. Hard work builds character

@Striperman Год назад

They are great tools and I always used them every Spring and Fall on my 1800 sq ft KBG lawn. I always dreaded doing it but it had to be done. Did it perpendicular lines and always in one day. Then found out about the Greenworks corded dethatcher and life became better lol.Still have it for small spots when needed and also have the Greenskeeper II rake and is good for quick cleanups. 👍💚🦸