Getting ready for Spring Verticutting

There are so many different types of grasses, and every type of grass will benefit from Verticutting.
Benefits:

1. Thinning
2. Aeration
3. Removal of thatch
4. Decreasing the density
5. Decreases compacting
6. Improving the movement of water into the soil
7. Allows fertilizers and pesticides to penetrate the surface better, reaching the root system, encouraging deeper root growth
8. Prepares a lawn for over-seeding, not St. Augustine grasses
9. Improves mowing, especially in St. Augustine grasses

In the first photo, you will see this Ryan Verticutter does a beautiful job on this Bermuda soccer field.

Pictures 2 & 3 show excellent results on St. Augustine, because they were kept mowed low. But the Ryan Verticutter was never designed for St. Augustine grasses with 4-6 inches of layering, top growth.

Truthfully, I have never seen a Verticutter designed for St. Augustine grasses.

 In photos 5 & 6, you see lawns that have so much top growth/layering, it is difficult to get the best result, and should be Verticutt twice that first year.

At the bottom of the page our original Ryan died, sadly parts are no longer available. ( Please offer a moment of silence for this wonderful machine )

With over 30 years and hundreds of all kinds of lawns Verticutt, this year 2014, I decided to put forth a new program? This includes building a much better, and more efficient and more powerful Verticutter (looking for a name). Honestly the old Ryan had to be modified just so it could handle St. Augustine grasses. While improving the quality of each lawn is the goal, this is exactly why building a new Verticutter is necessary.

While the Ryan Verticutter with small wheels struggles on a wet lawn ( from rain, sprinklers or morning dew, the operator works much harder and does not always attain the best result. So in Oct. we will debut the new, faster, stronger, Verticutter to achieve a much healthier lawn. Plus we don't damage your lawn!

Starting this season, we hope to reach more customers weeks in advance of the actual Verticutting. With their help, we will be-able complete most of the goals listed at the top of this page, more efficiently. Our goal a beautiful clean healthier lawn.

Important a power rake is not a Verticutter

See blog: What is thatch? Why a Power rake is a waste of time.

Our customer training program

So how do we get our lawn ready?  We train our lawn?

• Because of the new Verti-cutter we can cut year around.
• This year we going to make a efforts to help improve the Verticutting experience?
• First we want the lawn as dry as possible for Verticutting. Sprinklers should be turned off 3 days before Verticutting.
• Sprinklers cleaned around, grass mowed, sprinklers off 3 days before. Running the system to mark sprinklers, must not be done with-in 3 days.
• My goal will be to reach the customer early enough so they are able to start lowering the mower 1/4 or so at each mowing, or even mow more often to bring the grass down to 2.5 or 3 inches. 
• A good combination of less Nitrogen fertilizer, less water, and cutting back that excessive top growth, will prepare the lawn for the best possible Verticutting.
• To help maintain perfect health, all lawns should be Verticutt yearly, some twice the first year.
• When lawns are Verticutt yearly, and kept mowed at around 3"  they will require less water, besides being much easier to maintain.

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