Gonna try and steal some more knowledge from you.
1. Is raking/bagging/sweep beneficial? Or does it prevent thatch from being able to build up? Frequency?
2. Should I de-thatch? Is so frequency?
3. Aerating? What’s the best type? Plugs or holes? Also frequency? What time of the year?
4. I normally use milgornite. Makes my lawn green, and says it can’t burn your yard. Opinions? I honestly say I think it works wonders. I use it during spring and that’s it.
5. Any other year round tips you would say?
Completely depends on the area and climate you live in. Where I'm at I mow with a side discharge, don't even mulch it and I run over whatever leaves or branches are laying in the yard, during the growing season I do absolutely nothing and can't keep up with the grass growing and being healthy.
1. Is raking/bagging/sweep beneficial? Or does it prevent thatch from being able to build up? Frequency?
- Never bag or rake you want the grass to be broken down and complete the circle of life *insert scene from Lion King* Mulch if your lawn mower has the ability, discharge is the worst, but I still do it and have no problems.
2. Should I de-thatch? Is so frequency?
- Not recommended if the thatch is healthy, half an inch is around the limit though, after that you start blocking moisture and airflow to the roots. If it gets to be more than 1/2 -3/4" than bag/rake the next time or two you mow and that should allow the grass to catch up naturally. But again, I side discharge (least recommended) and have a whole fuckin layer clippings sitting on top the grass (totally not recommended at all) and it's still growing strong.
3. Aerating? What’s the best type? Plugs or holes? Also frequency? What time of the year?
- I never understood the spike aerators, you've got compacted soil so you're going to shove a spike in there to compact it more? The plug will actually remove a small core of soil and leave a hole, dropping the plug on top. The soil breaks down to fill in the hole and the plug breaks up and either blows away or stays in place. Frequency completely depends on how compact your soil gets, you should be able to shove a stick or screw driver into the soil fairly easily, if you're not in a drought and you have to put all your weight on the stick it's time. You want to aerate at the peak or just before the peak of growing season so your grass has the time to recover.
4. I normally use milgornite. Makes my lawn green, and says it can’t burn your yard. Opinions? I honestly say I think it works wonders. I use it during spring and that’s it.
Spring is a good time to use it. I don't have much experience with the fertilizer I'd sign for entire truck loads of the shit but it was all dependent on type of grass and purpose. Was it healthy or needed work, missing iron or nitrogen, spring or fall. Over all the name brand milgornite is great it's just the microbes left over from waste water treatment so they have all kinds of shit in it for healthy grass. Not sure if you're using something that just took the name milgornite.
5. Any other year round tips you would say?
You shouldn't need to water your grass if you're in a good climate. If you go more than 2 weeks with out rain, water the grass in the very early morning (just before dawn) for 30-60min, shouldn't need to do that more than a day or two every two weeks until you get more rain. Look up the recommended cut height for your particular grass, that really does matter for different types of grass. Get with your neighbors and make sure they aren't fucking you over with chemicals or fertilizers that don't mesh well, grass doesn't care where the property line is.
