CORE AERATION
Core Aeration is probably one of the most misunderstood services provided by lawn care professionals. In order to achieve and maintain a beautiful lawn, you should employ basic lawn care practices such as properly mowing, fertilizing and watering. It is also important to ensure that nutrients can reach the soil beneath your grass. Aeration can be an extremely vital element to a healthy lawn because it allows air and water to penetrate built-up grass or lawn thatch.
Aeration involves perforating the soil with small holes to allow air, water and nutrients to penetrate the grass roots. This helps the roots grow deeply and produce a stronger, more vigorous lawn.
The main reason for aerating is to alleviate soil compaction. Compacted soils have too many solid particles in a certain volume or space, which prevents proper circulation of air, water and nutrients within the soil. Excess lawn thatch or heavy organic debris buried under the grass surface can also starve the roots from these essential elements.
The best time for aeration is during the growing season, when the grass can heal and fill in any open areas after soil plugs are removed. Ideally you want to aerate a lawn with cool season grass in the early spring or fall and those with warm season grass in the late spring. If you have never aerated your lawn you should do it in the spring and the fall the first year and then every fall thereafter to achieve the healthiest lawn possible. Some years in which we get a good freeze/thaw cycle (like this year) that cycle will sufficiently loosen compacted soils to where a spring aeration is not overly advantageous.
Aeration is a beneficial practice toward achieving a beautiful lawn, but most people don't realize it or understand the process. If your lawn is a candidate, let us make it an integral part of your lawn care regime. Your lawn will thank you for letting it breathe again.
Aeration involves perforating the soil with small holes to allow air, water and nutrients to penetrate the grass roots. This helps the roots grow deeply and produce a stronger, more vigorous lawn.
The main reason for aerating is to alleviate soil compaction. Compacted soils have too many solid particles in a certain volume or space, which prevents proper circulation of air, water and nutrients within the soil. Excess lawn thatch or heavy organic debris buried under the grass surface can also starve the roots from these essential elements.
The best time for aeration is during the growing season, when the grass can heal and fill in any open areas after soil plugs are removed. Ideally you want to aerate a lawn with cool season grass in the early spring or fall and those with warm season grass in the late spring. If you have never aerated your lawn you should do it in the spring and the fall the first year and then every fall thereafter to achieve the healthiest lawn possible. Some years in which we get a good freeze/thaw cycle (like this year) that cycle will sufficiently loosen compacted soils to where a spring aeration is not overly advantageous.
Aeration is a beneficial practice toward achieving a beautiful lawn, but most people don't realize it or understand the process. If your lawn is a candidate, let us make it an integral part of your lawn care regime. Your lawn will thank you for letting it breathe again.
How does it work? This diagram gives and easy to understand perspective on how the process is beneficial to your lawn.
We use only the best equipment!
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The LT Rich Z-Plugger is hands down the best commercial aerator on the market. It provides 1200 lbs of hydraulic down pressure taking plugs up to 3 1/2 inches deep on lawns that have been properly watered and prepared ahead of time. It's wide wheels help to avoid rutting as it disperses the weight of the machine. With 60 tines on the 40" spindle you get an average of 4.8 plugs per sqft of yard surface!
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