The last two years I haven't needed to rake the lawn of moss. But this year it is back with a vengeance. Maybe the worst over the last thirty years. Stage one was get out my electric raker, plug into an extension cable and run over the whole lawn, back and front. If that isn't hard enough, raking the moss into piles is even worse. No, collecting the moss into bags is the hardest part. Then transporting it to the brown bin. The only trouble was that this was soon filled so I still have lots in bags and even piled up at the far end.
We are not done yet. Next up is to mow the lawn. This collects the remaining moss as well as cutting the grass. Except the grass has hardly grown since the first cut. It has been so dry, not a drop of rain for well over two weeks. The photos below are after mowing, lots of bare patches and some places where the moss turned yellow underneath the dead black stuff.
All the photos above are of the back lawn. Below is the front, equally bad, if not worse.
One last job. I had two tubs of Pro Kleen Grass Green fertilizer left over from last year. I just spread this by hand as that seemed to work last time. Needless to say, I'm glad that's all done, all in one day. All I need now is for some rain overnight to save me watering it in. I will definitely need some help next year.
As a reminder, this was the lawn after it's first cut on 6th March.
Then how it looked after the moss killer the day after.
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