Dear Carl:
If your lawn is small and access with large equipment limited, you may want
to try using a small tiller to hit the tops of mounds and then rake them down
to the level of the surrounding area. If your lawn is larger and you can get
either a tractor or a skid-steer on it without difficulty, then you may wish to
resort to the use of equipment such as a powered yard or rock rake that mounts
on the front of a skid-steer. Once the area effected has been worked up with
this machine or a tractor and a disc, you will need to use a drag to smooth the
soil even more. Sewing the lawn is best done in Tennessee from mid August
through September, as it is not necessary here to cover the seed with straw, if
one hits those ideal times. Fertilizer and or lime
should also be applied as required.
If your problems are much smaller, you may want to buy a load of top soil
and simply find the rough spots and then feather them with top soil to smooth
up the area without digging up the sod.
If you want an instant lawn, after major reworking, then buying sod to be
placed on top of the smooth soil is the best, but most expensive.
If your lawn has enough slope to cause erosion from rain, then straw would
likely be required to hold the sewn lawn in place until the seed takes root.
Yours Truly,
Clifford Wilson
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