Aeration is a process that involves the use of a gas-powered machine to alleviate soil compaction and break down the thatch build-up in your lawn. Thatch can be compared to a thatch roof on a house, which repels water, fertilizer and prevents grass seed from over seeding from reaching the soil, where they can be most effective. This leads to rainwater running off the lawn instead of being absorbed and makes lawn treatments less effective.
By breaking down this barrier, you can derive more benefits from rain and lawn treatments, which ultimately improves the health and appearance of your grass.
Here’s a list of benefits that lawn aeration can provide:
- Enhances the aesthetic appeal of your lawn and promotes its overall health.
- Alleviates soil compaction and minimizes rainwater and fertilizer runoff.
- Aids in the reduction of thatch buildup.
- Stimulates deep root growth, enabling the grass to remain healthy and strong during dry spells.
- Accelerates lawn recovery following dry spells or summer stress.
- Maximizes the efficacy of lawn treatments.
- Extracts thousands of small soil plugs, facilitating better absorption of rainwater and lawn treatments.
Aeration is best carried out every autumn to optimize the benefits of your lawn care expenditure. During aeration, we will extract soil plugs that remain on the turf. Any missed soil plugs will gradually break down over the following two weeks, facilitated by rainfall and mowing.
To schedule your lawn aeration consultation, kindly contact Karen and Tom Grosh from Grosh’s Lawn Service via email.
Exploring the Advantages of Lawn Aeration and Overseeding in Combination:
Upon completion of aeration, we strongly suggest over seeding the entire lawn. Doing so repairs areas where grass has died out due to factors such as age, stress, neglect, disease, or drought, while simultaneously thickening the lawn. This denser lawn not only makes it more pleasant to walk on but also inhibits the germination of weed seeds.
It’s important to note that over seeding requires a multi-year commitment to achieve the desired outcome. Therefore, we suggest using Turf Type Tall Fescue grass seed, which is both drought-tolerant and disease-resistant, and has proven to be the best-suited variety of grass seed for the extreme weather conditions typical in our region.
To schedule a consultation for your lawn’s aeration and overseeding, kindly contact Karen and Tom Grosh of Grosh’s Lawn Service via email.