Greenworks 14-Inch Corded Dethatcher & Scarifier

The Greenworks corded dethatcher is the value alternative to the Sun Joe, and for a lot of lawns it is all you need. It pairs the same 13-amp corded power with a 14-inch working width and a 2-in-1 head: a spring-tine dethatching reel to lift the thatch mat and a scarifier reel to score the soil into a seedbed. The three-position depth dial is simpler than the Sun Joe's five stops but covers the range that matters — light for maintenance, deep for a real renovation before overseeding. Push-button electric start means no pull cord and no gas, and the whole machine is lighter to push and easier to hang in a garage than a gas unit. It ships without a collection bag on some configurations, so plan to rake up the pulled thatch afterward. If you want to open a whole lawn's soil for fall overseeding without hand-raking or renting a gas machine, this is the affordable, no-fuss way to do it, and the seed-to-soil contact it creates is what turns a bag of seed into an actually thicker lawn.