Topband: burying radials

[bob finger]

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>It is not always best to bury.  Laying the radials on the ground, pulled fairly taught and pinned at the far end is easiest and fastest.  Let the grass grow a bit long and cut it a bit higher than normal for a few mowings and the radials will disappear in fairly short order.
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If you must do something else why not sow them in.  Take a ground rod 
and drill a smallish hole in one end and use the rod as a needle to 
thread the radial under the existing thatch or whatever is on the 
ground.  Lots of work but easier than digging them in.  Have you ever 
seen an arrow shot parallel to the ground and noticed how it buries 
itself into the grass?  Same princiipal applies

My 80 4 sq has two miles of radials under it.  I laid them on top of the 
grass and pinned them.  They were laid in the late fall.  I "avoided" 
cutting that part of the pasture (I can't call my weeds lawn hihihi) for 
the first two mowings the following spring. Since then I have been 
cutting normally.   It has now been three seasons.  No way I can find a 
radial even with a rake.  I did catch one the first time I mowed, but 
that was probably because I failed to "nail" that one in on the far 
end.  73 bob de w9ge