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I am starting to see the struggling parts of my KBG starting to come back. Its starting to grow again and I see new shoots coming up.

I put a pre-m down in August, I was going to put my third and last pre-m down some time in mid Sept or 1st week of October.

I have a lot of brown and yellow grass and a bunch of what I think is dead Poa Anuua. I was thinking of raking it up and applying my pre-M, but wasn't sure if doing so would harm the KBG coming out of dormancy.

Is it safe to give the lawn a good raking or should I wait until the lawn looks like it is growing well again?

Why rake and lose the free OM? Is the aesthetic not pleasing? It's temporary.

The dead grass won't hinder the pre-M application or the waking of the KBG. And think of the time saved.

i wasn’t sure if the dead grass keeps the KBG from spreading. Also the POA Annua that’s brown and dead looking now might comes back on the spring.

I have had brown dead looking POA Annnua come back on after tenacity a few times now.

Raking isn't going to remove Poa annua crowns that may still be alive.

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[quote=TimmyG post_id=336987 time=1568406672 user_id=1966]
Raking isn't going to remove [i]Poa annua[/i] crowns that may still be alive.[/quote]

Well that settles that, I guess I just have to wait until next springs yearly battle.

Hopefully stretching out the watering killed a bunch of it off this year; not sure if it was worth it, but I guess Ill see next spring when the seed heads pop up.