Lawn Dethatching

4-Seasons Outdoors Lawn & Landscape offers a variety of services to repair or rejuvenate your lawn. In addition to our other services, we also offer dethatching. We recommend dethatching once per season to all established lawns.

• Detatching is simply the removal of the excessive layer of debris that accumulates above the soil and below the blades of grass.
  • The goal of dethatching is not to clear the grass of all the thatch but to remove the excessive build-up of thatch

  • Thatch is primarily composed of grass clippings that looks like look like a tightly knit layer of brown debris

  • A healthy lawn will have 1/2 inch build up of thatch to conserve moisture anything beyond 3/4 inch is a sign of excess

• Spring is the best time for dethatching in Michigan.
  • Removing thatch with a rake is a back breaking excercize
  • We help our customers by power raking the excess thatch and disposing the debris

  • Mid – Summer months tend to be too hot for dethatching and can cause stress to the turf by depleting moisture.

• An application of fertilizer, along with heavy watering after the dethatching will greatly stimulate the root growth.

  • Deep watering every two to three days for a couple of weeks after dethatching will cause the grass to spread out for increased strength during dry times.