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Aerating

Breathe new life into your lawn with aeration

Aeration is an important part of maintaining a healthy lawn. It involves creating small holes in the soil to allow air, water, and nutrients to reach the grass roots, improving the overall health and appearance of your lawn. Our aeration service is designed to provide your lawn with all of the benefits of root level oxygen and hydration.


Our team of trained professionals will carefully assess your lawn's needs and create a customized aeration plan to ensure that it is getting the best possible care. We use specialized equipment to create small holes in the soil, which helps to loosen compacted soil and allow water, air, and nutrients to reach the roots of your grass. This can help to improve the lawn's overall health, as well as reduce the risk of problems such as thatch buildup and shallow root growth.


In addition to aeration, we also offer a range of other lawn care services, including fertilization, weed control, and soil testing. These services work together to create a comprehensive plan that will keep your lawn looking its best all year round.


Overall, our aeration service is designed to provide your lawn with the nutrients and care it needs to thrive.

Why Does Aeration Work?


What is “soil compaction”? The soil in your yard becomes compacted over time. Think of “soil compaction” as similar to having dry skin. Due to the stress of summer heat, your lawn’s soil becomes compacted when the pores between your soil become too dense. This density leads to your soil drying out, which can prevent water from getting into your lawn’s roots. When your lawn becomes dried out, your lawn can suffer from erosion, leading to dry brown patches on your lawn and an unhealthy appearance.

How does Aeration work

Aeration is exactly what it sounds like: getting air into your lawn’s soil. This allows your lawn to grow the deepest, healthiest roots possible. Our service aerates the lawn by removing small plugs of soil from the ground. When the ground naturally settles and fills in the holes that are left behind, the loose soil allows nutrients and roots that were trapped at the surface to penetrate deeper underground.

There are two techniques for aerating your lawn: spike aeration and plug aeration. Spike aeration involves simply puncturing your lawn with small holes without removing any of the soil. Plug aeration means not only creating small holes in your lawn but actually removing the “plugs” of soil and leaving them on the surface. This is sometimes called core aeration, and is much better at improving a compacted lawn. Once these plugs have dried out, they break up easily and effectively the next time your lawn is mowed.

Since aeration disturbs the roots of your lawn, it is important that they get a chance to recover before being exposed to other trauma like a summer drought. Because of this, we only aerate when your lawn’s conditions are appropriate. Our aeration service is available in the spring (usually in April and May) and in the fall (usually in September and October), the two optimal seasons for yearly maintenance of your lawn. We recommend that you aerate your lawn once per year.

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