Top dressing is best applied using a cage roller and it should be applied in a thin layer. If you do not want to apply a top dressing, you can rake the seed bed. Use a stiff rake and do not push to hard. Next, you will want to roll the lawn surface. If you do not have a roller, you can easily rent one. There are different types and shapes of sprayers available in the garden. The next in the lawn care equipment category are the tillers. Tilling is very essential to allow the penetration of new seeds in the garden. Tilling cracks the top soil and lets it mix with the seeds. By the process of tilling most of the nutrients are absorbed by the soil and therefore it allows it to be absorbed by the plants and promotes a quality yield. Some other natural tillers that are present to help us mix seeds into the soil are earthworms. They enhance the yield and also help in tilling the soil of your garden. These natural tillers are easy to get in the market and are very helpful in maintaining your garden and you don’t have to pay them. That is the reason why you can get long expansions of sod and turf lawns in such mild climates. There is another different climate zone, which comes under the name of a transition zone. You can consider this to be in a lower elevation area, and the grasses, which grow, here are Ryegrass, Red and Tall Fescue, Kentucky Bluegrass, as well as a number of combinations of other grasses with Kentucky Bluegrass. Generally speaking, most acidic soils are high in organic material while alkaline soils are high in calcium. Acidic soils generally occur in areas where there is high rainfall, while alkaline soils seem to be more prevalent in areas where there is minimal rainfall. To ensure that you are getting a proper soil test, you should take it to a professional. The reel mower is the mechanical kind of mower and the mechanism on which it runs has been altered from time to time. It has a horizontal cutting blade at the bottom that falls close to the ground and cuts the grass that is long. Such mowers create a helix at the reel axis and there is a set of spinning blades that looks like a cylinder.