dead grass after winter..

Hi.
I know this is normal, and that grass will regenerate. But in some places the grass is almost dead. I read somewhere, that making holes with pitchfork will make the lawn regenerate faster, by loosing up roots, and providing more air. Well, I haven't tried it before, and, to be honest, I'm a little bit afraid of destroying my whole lawn. So is it safe to do so?

 

I'm a novice gardener, but last year I treated myself to a scarifier... My lawn was dreadful - total mess, mostly moss, dead grass or just bare patchy rubbish.

After using the scarifier once I had 5 big sacks of rubbish! It did make the lawn look wiorse to begin with but after one more time using it (another 3 bags) and a bit of TLC and feed it looked a lot better.

Its pretty bad again now after Winter, but the scarifier is coming out this weekend!

I bought mine from Argos for a reasonable price.

 

Scarifier will remove thatch, and moss etc.

What it sounds like the O/P needs (maybe you too?!!) is to fix the compaction and/or draining. That needs slightly lift the turf (in the way that Loofah said) and/or make holes in the lawn and fill them with sharp sand

 

So I won't need any specialistic gardening stuff? I am wondering because I was looking through this grass equipment category on this site and there is really a lot of stuff... But I guess I don't need any of those?

 

Thank you for your replies, gonna try those methods this weekend!