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Originally Posted by tomwed
thank-you for taking the time to answer my questions
How far apart were the holes?
Do you thatch? How high do you set the blade? I'm finding contradictory information.
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You have to be a bit nuts to do it. BUT, to answer your inquiry about every 6-8 inches. IMPORTANT-do not drill more than 8 inches because you do not want to hit your buried sprinkler pipes.
RE: mowing height
You will see all kinds of different opinions on this as well.
Most important is that you do not remove more than 1/3 of the length of the grass blade. The posted information for empire zoyzia says two inches. The mowing guys with the riding mowers all use rotary mowers. Under the guard that you see is a spinning blade-actually several. We have all kinds of stuff in our lawns-sprinkler heads, doughnuts, plactice plates over plumbing etc. If, you insist on cutting your lawn at say 2 inches surely your mowing guy or you will be hitting stuff. Mine is cut at 3 inches.
Realize if you follow the rule of not cutting off more than 1/3 at 2 inches your lawn should be cut everytime it grows to 2.66 inches. At times, that will be several times a week.
Thatching your lawn? Yup, that too is debatable. Certainly not needed every year. You have a newly sodded lawn. Surely, there is no reson to dethatch it for at least two years-mine has not been done in four years.