Reply to: Question for the experts: Scarifier

[hyperD]

A scarifier turns a green garden into a muddy, brown field. Or was that an excavator? I can never remember.

[FiveTimes]

Now is a as good a time to do it and then top dress it

[Saddo]

You have to be careful with a scarifier. If set too extreme it'll give the lawn a haircut which William Hague would be proud of. The amount of material it yanks out of the lawn is unbelievable - and it doesn't care whether it's grass or moss.

But as others have said, the result can be very pleasing. It'll look awful when you first do it, but after a few days if the grass takes it will look much better.

Is this a good time of year to be doing scarifying though? The grasscutting season is about over, which means that grass isn't growing - and beating the lawn to death might just persuade it that it doesn't want to grow in your lawn patch. I would have thought scarifying should be early in the season.

[Troll]

doesn't everones lawn tractor have a scarifier attachment ???

[TimberWolf]

I am now forced to go and look up 'scarifier' which I have never heard of.

This is because I make the wife mow the lawn.

Same here. I had visions of some kind of pagan ritual that involved sneaking up on the lawn and pulling faces and shouting.

[FiveTimes]

Never needed to scarify as I have my lawn treated and there is little or no moss.

Bear in mind your lawn will look awful short term. Same as when you aerate.

[SupremeSpod]

Fook me you've got balls.

I see your 'no degree' and raise you 4 A'Levels

I said you were "Ill-educated", not "uneducated". Learn the difference and then we'll talk.

[MarillionFan]

Nope, it's because you're an ill-educated fuqwit who can't be trusted with anything mechanical.

Hth.

Fook me you've got balls.

I see your 'no degree' and raise you 4 A'Levels

[SupremeSpod]

I am now forced to go and look up 'scarifier' which I have never heard of.

This is because I make the wife mow the lawn.

Nope, it's because you're an ill-educated fuqwit who can't be trusted with anything mechanical.

Hth.

[MarillionFan]

I am now forced to go and look up 'scarifier' which I have never heard of.

This is because I make the wife mow the lawn.

[SupremeSpod]

Until the spiders arrive and turn it into their version of a Mumbai shanty town!

Do spiders sh!t in the street?

Actually, do spiders sh!t?

[shaunbhoy]

Or just leave the moss. Moss with a bit of grass in it makes a great lawn, not only green, but all sort of soft to walk on like a carpet.

Until the spiders arrive and turn it into their version of a Mumbai shanty town!

[milanbenes]

Oh yes.

How big is the bin on the scarifier?

It's a pain in the 'arris if it's too small (like the one on mine is), since it's scarify 3 feet, compress moss, scarify another 3 feet, then empty bin.

It seems fecking endless.

And no matter how much you do, moss will still come out if you do it some more.

As I said, a never ending task.

Avoid.

@rse

Milan.

[xoggoth]

Or just leave the moss. Moss with a bit of grass in it makes a great lawn, not only green, but all sort of soft to walk on like a carpet.

[milanbenes]

My record so far is 15 bin bags full of moss.

I gave up then & haven't done it since.

It's a never ending task, a bit like painting the Forth bridge, but not quite so interesting.

bugger

bugger and if I buy it, i'll have no choice than to use it

bugger

hmmm, what to do

Milan.