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  Green Girl Garden Care August 19, 2016 at 6:44am

  There were paragraphs when I wrote this out but it's all been bunched together and the link hasn't worked!
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    James Brett > Green Girl Garden Care August 19, 2016 at 6:57am

    Did you use a phone? Sometimes the formatting doesn't carry through
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    Landscape Juice > Green Girl Garden Care August 19, 2016 at 7:40am

    Just tweaked it to display correctly.
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  Mark Hunter August 19, 2016 at 7:15am

  I actually use one of those on some really small lawns we look after. Works well as long as the ground is soft / damp. Keep a round file in your pocket for deburring inside the tubes and a flat one for the outside.
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    Green Girl Garden Care > Mark Hunter August 19, 2016 at 4:10pm

    Will get one of those then. How about scarifier. I currently use a spring rake on small lawns.
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  john jones August 19, 2016 at 10:01pm

  I use one of those sometimes. It's worth having a metal rod of some kind to poke the holes out if they do get clogged up. Can be hard work to use, but does a good job.  For a mini scarifier I've got a rake on wheels which also works well. There's one on that site you linked to. Wolf garten do one also as a multi change head.
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  Ben August 24, 2016 at 8:36pm

  I really rate the Oregon scarifier blade - just get it in the same width as your cutting deck on your mower and see what a difference it makes. Mow short as feasible, then go over it with the oregon spring blade fitted. What a difference, especially in wild mossy lawns. Saved my dads back garden from being over run with the stuff, and the blade comes in at £15-17, its worth every penny too considering what you save on a purpose built petrol scarifier!
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    Bryn Dunkerley > Ben August 24, 2016 at 11:30pm

    Hi Ben, how does that blade work, as scarifiers usually work the opposite way to a mower blade
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      Ben > Bryn Dunkerley August 27, 2016 at 6:29pm

      It has a spring tine on each end of the blade, and it dethatches the lawn pretty quickly - I'm fairly new to gardening in general so scarification may not be the word, but it really does tear up the moss, and if done progressively over a few months like me can really help a lawn lose its moss. Here's the link;
      
      https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/oregon-one-for-all-18-dethatcher-bl...