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Posted by Stubby on September 6, 2006, 10:13 am
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points and it will have problems getting over the rises. That was my
experience.
jaygreg wrote:
> ??? There is no such thing as a perfectly flat lawn in my neighborhodd (or
> anyboby else's I've ever seen).
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>> The machine will work fine if your lawn is perfectly flat.
>>
>> jaygreg wrote:
>>> I'm considering thatching and resseding my lawn. A local equipment rental
>>> showed me a machine by Classen
>>> (http://littlewonder.com/turf-seeder-self-propelled.asp) called a turf
>>> seeder (he called it an overseeder) that he thinks I should use. When I
>>> saw the arrangement of the blades - considering the machine drops seed
>>> first then lets the 24 or so blades roll over them, my eyebrows rose; it
>>> seems to me a lot of seed will simply fall on top of the grass and those
>>> blades will miss them. It doesn't look like there's enough vibration to
>>> shake the seeds down through the existing lawn and onto the furrows the
>>> blades create.
>>>
>>> Is this a recommended way to get seed into a mature lawn that needs to
>>> thicken to prevent unwanted weeds? Or should I rent a thatcher then this
>>> machine to plant the seed when all the thatch is gone. The guy at the
>>> rental agency says the machine will thach as well but not as much as a
>>> stand-alone type.
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