Thatch, in your lawn, consists of dead grass, plant material (grass and leaves) and mold that has developed over the winter months. All this lay on the surface of the soil and suffocates your lawn. To ensure a healthy lawn after the long Alberta winters, it is important to expose the soil to warmth and sunlight. The best way to do this is to dethatch your lawn with power raking machine.
Dethatching provides many benefits including:
Healthy root growth in your grass
If you have a build of thatch, healthy root growth is nearly impossible. If the roots aren’t healthy, your grass will never become full, green and thick. By dethatching, you are able to help circulate air deep down into the roots, and providing necessary carbon dioxide. Not only does this stimulate existing roots, but also encourages new root growth.
Making Fertilizer Work for Your Lawn
If there is a thatch build up on your lawn, applied fertilizers cannot properly blend with the soil. Dethatching ensures that your fertilizers can work effectively, and spread properly accross your lawn and throughout the soil.
Effective Draining
Again, thatch is essentially a barrier between the soil and anything healthy that needs to come in contact with it. While moisture is necessary for proper lawn growth, it can become a damaging factor when it’s unable to penetrate the soil and make its way to the roots. With a healthy lawn, the moisture remains on the surface for a short time, eventually draining into the soil and to the root system. If thatch is present, however, water remains at the surface for a longer period of time, and saturates the plant system. Dethatching will ensure that water drains properly, while also nurturing your lawn.
White ‘N Green has been providing this service for many years and have the expertise in property dethatching your lawn. On many occasions, we have seen homeowners practically ruin their lawns attempting to do a dethatch and it ended up taking almost an entire year to get the lawn back to where it was previously. Leave this critical task to the trusted hands of White ‘N Green and we will make sure to only remove thatch and not the roots of grass plants.