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Successful Lawn Aeration

Is your lawn starting to look a bit brown, thin, or generally unhealthy? Fertilizer can only go so far in making your lawn beautiful. To keep your lawn growing at its full potential, you need to aerate it.

Aeration is known to improve grass rooting capability, enable the "watering in" of fertilizers and pesticides, to increase air and water flow to the soil, and enhance the generation of microorganisms that will keep your thatch in check.

What Is Aerating?

Aerating is the process of removing small plugs of soil from your lawn to encourage new growth. Lawn aeration allows more oxygen to reach the roots, helps old grasses decompose faster, and makes your lawn more drought-resistant. New growth is be much healthier!

Tips for Good Lawn Aeration

To get the most of our your lawn aeration, take these tips to heart:

1. Aerate on any day when temperatures are mild.
2. The soil should be moist, but not wet. Wet soil catches in the hollow tines of the aerator and makes the process difficult.
3. If you have cool-season grasses, aerate in the fall. Lawn aeration for warm-season grasses is usually best done in the springtime.
4. When you aerate in the fall, don't wait until too late in the season! Make sure there are four weeks of good growing time left for your lawn to fill in the holes and make the most of your aeration efforts.
5. After aerating your lawn, leave the soil plugs alone for a few days to break up. You can crumble the plugs with a rake, lawn mower, or old piece of carpet dragged lightly across your lawn.
6. Before your first aeration, talk to a landscape specialist about your soil type, the grass you have, and how deeply you should aerate your lawn to get the best results.
7. Show off your lawn's potential with regular aerating to keep it healthy, vibrant, and green.

A lawn that is growing like crazy is a good thing, despite how often you have to mow to keep it under control. But a lawn that grows well is also one that can quickly develop thatch. Learn all you can about lawn dethatching to keep your grass perfectly green!

What is Thatch, Anyway?

Thatch is the accumulation of grass stems and roots forming just above the surface of the soil. A normal part of every lawn, thatch is not a problem until it is about half an inch thick. At that point, it is preventing water from reaching the deep roots in the soil, and can block sunlight from the grass below it. Both conditions can lead to withered and brown grass.

In addition, grass roots can begin to grow into the thatch rather than the soil underneath it. This prevents grass from receiving the nutrients it needs, and the result is--you guessed it!--brown grass.

Remedy all the Problems with Lawn Dethatching!

There are three basic options for lawn dethatching:

1. Coring: Coring machines, or aerators, remove plugs of soil from the lawn, giving the grass room to grow. This helps the roots reach deeper and helps eliminate thatch.
2. Topdressing: A layer of topsoil over the thatch helps the organic matter decompose, leading to the breakdown of thatch and a nutrient-rich lawn.
3. Vertical Mowers: Machines with power-driven tines can bring thatch to the surface while aerating the ground below. However, if you have a significant amount of thatch, this can rip up enough of your lawn to require reseeding of several bare spots.

Lawn dethatching on a regular basis keeps your grass looking green and healthy. If you're not sure what lawn dethatching method to use, talk to us, we can help

Seeding is most important at this time so please call us early to get it done today.

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