I Wet My Plants

I decided that I would start de-thatching the lawn yesterday.  Here’s what I started with:

It is matted, dusty and grey with bits of gravel, plastic and Halloween candy wrappers.  I took my bow rake and started at the front of the lawn near the road.  Hard-raking a matted lawn is difficult and I started sweating right away.  After about an hour and many breaks I ended up with 1.5 bags of dead grass and this:

I couldn’t even finish it all at one time.  As you can see there is an unfinished patch in the upper right-hand side which leads to the backyard.  I’ll probably get to it this weekend.  Once I’m done this I’ll start spreading the corn gluten meal that I have left over from last year.