Lawn aeration benefits plus tips

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Lawn aeration

Besides proper irrigation and fertilizing your lawn, aerating is a key technique which will create a healthy lush lawn! On this post we’ll talk about the importance of lawn aeration and the benefits that will do to your lawn.

Background

Before talking about the benefits of lawn aeration I want you to know what happens to our lawns every year. After rolling heavy equipment such as a lawn mower or just by walking on our lawn year round the soil gets compacted by all this traffic, this will impede grass root growth which will affect grass health overall.

And now lets talk about the benefits of lawn aeration and why you should consider aerating your lawn least once a year.

Benefits:

Oxygen is needed improve the air exchange in between the soil and the atmosphere.

If you find that water is running out of your lawn, aerating will allow water to enter the soil.

Holes generated by aeration will allow nutrients and fertilizer to supply the roots.

All the above will help the grass root to develop a more healthy system resulting and a great looking and healthy lawn.

Tips:

Ideally you will want to aerate your lawn after a rain storm or after heavy watering your lawn.

Cold season grasses aeration time: The best time is early spring, if a second aeration is to be done the middle of fall will be ideal.

Warm season grasses aeration time: Mid to late spring is ideal.

Manual plug aerator review

I recently bought me a manual plug aerator after checking several models and specs, and here is my review on this particular model I choose.

Why I choose the corona core aerator:

I was convinced at first sight when I saw this model juts by looking at it’s heavier material thickness and well made welds. Other models I’ve seen online are made out of thinner materials and they end up breaking out after light use.

Handles are made out of gel like rubber making it comfortable to use.

Total length of this tool is 40″.

I am looking forward to use this manual core aerator for years and years.

Correct way to manual aerate

Right way: The correct way to use a manual lawn core aerator toll is to insert the tool perpendicular to the surface being worked on, this will allow the soil to push up trough the tool tines without plugin it so often.

Wrong way:  By inserting the tines in angle the soil gets compacted by not having an easy escape, this will case the tool to clog more often and I don’t believe you want to go this route.

Core aerating will provide your grass root the mentioned benefits, this a technique that I will do at least once to my lawn.

Lawn aeration

What is aeration?

Many owners of lawns are aware of such a problem – they seem to do everything right, mow, fertilize, water, but you can not boast in front of the British, there is no that beauty and perfect emerald surface. So, the lawn lacks something.

Very often the topsoil flakes and as a result poorly oxygen passes through the air, so necessary for the roots of lawn grass. For the same reason the life-giving moisture from the surface of the lawn does not get to the roots, it just stagnates and does not pass through a dense layer. Accordingly, and carbon dioxide, which is formed during the life of plants, can not escape from the soil outside.

This is where lawn aeration comes in, allowing air, water and nutrients to pass unhindered.

Soils with a heavy clay soil and heavily stressed lawns need this treatment the most.

It is possible to help the lawn with your own hands. The turf simply needs regular ventilation. The ground should be pierced to improve the gas exchange of soil air and atmosphere through the resulting holes. The resulting holes are doubly useful. During droughts, life-giving water flows through them more quickly to the root system. And when the rains are prolonged, the moisture from the inside evaporates through these holes and prevents the roots from rotting, which, in turn, could lead to fungal diseases.