EncourageYou!

This evening, my restful plans were interrupted when our neighbor, Michelle M., told us that we (and they) have THATCH in our yards. That means that dead grass is down there choking our living grass! The horror! So Darling Bride and I took turns raking our suburban back yard. We're not done yet, so back to it tomorrow, weather permitting.

I do not have to do my upper body exercises tonight.

If your otherwise beautiful, green lawn has a lot of brown spots on them, they may be either

1. Grubs
2. Miniature Alien UFO landing spots
3. Thatch

Get your rake, some bottled water, and trash bags and rake, rake, rake until your arms and chest are sore. Get all the dead stuff away, it is choking your living stuff. Live to grow a lawn another day. My neighbor is pretty knowledgeable about these things, so we dropped what we were doing and got started right away.

here are some thatch links:

http://www.scotts.com/index.cfm?event=Search&searchString=thatch&x=4&y=5

http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/hort/g06708.htm