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Originally Posted by CADplans
The peroids of heat, and dry conditions of Virginia, as well as sand, makes it difficult to grow grass.
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I think the conditions here in Greensboro are similar to VA , sandy soil and hot summers. All my fescue went dormant, it's in direct sun at temperatures between 90-100 degrees and on a 20 degree slope. Now I wish I hadn't sprayed weed killer in the spring, the weeds have no problem staying green.
I've done some more research on the Craftsman "dethatcher" I bought a while back. It is made my MTD and was sold for a short period under the Craftsman brand. The blades look exactly like this:
Tried to look up the blades by the part number on eBay, only to find that MTD is selling this machine all over Europe as a verticutter rather than a dethatcher. Took it out to the back to try it out, it completely destroyed the existing grass, the final result looked something like this:
Definitely get plenty of seed to soil contact, but I'm not sure the existing grass will survive. Kind of skeptical of using it now.