The IronCraft Multi-Purpose Power Rake is an innovative landscape tool that combines a 4-in-1 bucket along with a power rake. With this solution, operators no longer have to change attachments to ...

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Power raking, on the other hand, is too vigorous for early spring and can damage moist, winter-tender grass plants.

Power raking is beneficial, although stressful for lawns, when a deep raking is done to remove true thatch. Thatch is a tight mat of dead roots, rhizomes and stems that occurs naturally over time.

The power raking method to prepare the soil before seeding should work well here. If you decide to slit seed the front yard, I would do the same for the backyard.

Light power raking (lawn rake) of wet, matted grass can speed spring green-up by letting air move into the root zone and warm the turf. Either one should be done early in spring to reduce ...