Need for Lawn Aeration

Your lawn needs to breathe…in fact, it deserves to breathe like you and me do…There are various times when your lawn tends to get compact- when you step on your lawn; when you mow your grass; or when kids play over it…and this makes it important for the homeowner to contact a professional lawn aeration service, may be annually or bi-annually.

Need for lawn aeration:

Aeration makes your soil loose which is important for several reasons:

• It allows the vital nutrients, fertilizer, water and even air to move into the soil and reach the root area.
• It promotes a good number of microorganisms that can breakdown lawn thatch. To elaborate further, thatch is a buildup of dead grass that needs to be removed to help the soil breathe. This thatch can block nutrients and water from reaching your lawn, thus making the lawn more susceptible to diseases.

When and how often the lawn needs aeration varies from soil to soil. You need to identify the variety of grass sown in your lawn and decide on aeration accordingly. By hiring a professional team for lawn aeration, lawn plugs may be removed and the compacted soil is allowed to expand into empty spaces as the grass grows. There are hand aerators also available to do the needful. A professional company would have all the requisite aerating equipment to provide the most effective aeration. An efficient aeration process is when the soil plugs are actually removed and not simply pushed deep inside…

All in all, it is this process of aeration that increases water penetration and air permeability, which in turn would improve the turf growth, by and large.