I'm looking for some advice to put in a lawn. I own 2 acres that has been sitting unkept for 30 years. I started with 10 foot high weeds, vines, dead trees and have gotten it down to almost ground level. It's growing again though.
What I have:
BX25
York Rake
Ratchet Rake
Land:
In NH we have a lot of rocks and I have plenty of roots from the weeds and saplings or whatever is growing underneath this soil.
How would you guys go about preparing for grass?
I think I need to somehow clean up the weeds.
Level the ground.
Bring in loam
Suggestions? I've been looking at power rakes but am not sure if the BX25 is too small for them. I've also been looking at the TR3 rake.
Here is what I got some of the land to in April:
I did it by backdragging my ratchet rake and pushing everything (dirt, weeds, logs) into gigantic piles...which was very difficult to remove.
I ended up using the york rake to try and smooth everything out.
I kept thinking to myself that there must be a better way.
Come end of July it looks like this:
What I have:
BX25
York Rake
Ratchet Rake
Land:
In NH we have a lot of rocks and I have plenty of roots from the weeds and saplings or whatever is growing underneath this soil.
How would you guys go about preparing for grass?
I think I need to somehow clean up the weeds.
Level the ground.
Bring in loam
Suggestions? I've been looking at power rakes but am not sure if the BX25 is too small for them. I've also been looking at the TR3 rake.
Here is what I got some of the land to in April:
I did it by backdragging my ratchet rake and pushing everything (dirt, weeds, logs) into gigantic piles...which was very difficult to remove.
I ended up using the york rake to try and smooth everything out.
I kept thinking to myself that there must be a better way.
Come end of July it looks like this: