Yes indeed rake it up! Aerating your lawn is always a good idea. If your lawn is matted it will indeed choke out new seedlings/growth from emerging. You can use a heavy steel rake to break up the mats and to go for broke you can also rent an aerator to take plugs out of the lawn. Leaving matted ground cover down year after year is not good for any lawn.
Ande
Who wishes she had more time for her gardening
--- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, subprong <subprong@...> wrote:
>
> We had a big drought over the summer which caused the grass to turn brown
> which is pretty much par for the course anyway. However in the fall when
> it rained it poured. Several times. Flooding. This caused the brown
> grass to flatten and it's pretty much matted to the ground. I'm wondering
> if this will inhibit fresh spring grass from popping up. Should I rake
> over it to break it up or will pulling up and out the roots cause more
> damage? Or will things pop up on their own just fine naturally? Any
> ideas. Thx.
>
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