Landscaping and law care question

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Thanks Pete! A few questions:

Originally Posted by petegz28

Kill all the weeds. Round up is fine. Your soil will be fine.

Round up is NOT Ground Clear (the everything is dead for a year stuff), right?

Originally Posted by petegz28

I am assuming you have just dirt. If you have dead grass, rake it up the best you can.

There are two things that are left when the weeks are killed. Lots of dead (black looking) grass stalks plus the dead weed stalks. I could mow them down as low as possible (with a bagger). But raking doesn't seem like it would remove anything beyond the mowing. I wonder if weed eating down to dirt makes any sense. Or maybe a better technique. Or maybe that's overkill?

Originally Posted by petegz28

If you want to go the extra mile throw some hay on top of the seed. By the time the hay decomposes your grass will be in.

How long will that take?