Aerating and dethatching are both highly important lawn care projects that take place around late winter through late spring. They both serve to help key nutrients like fertilizer, water or oxygen reach your lawn’s root zone so that your grass can continue to grow and thrive. However, aeration results in the breakdown of compacted soil whereas dethatching removes layers of thatch, or dead grass and other debris, from the top of the soil. Although they are similar, each provides its own benefits and they’re both completed with a different set of tools.
What is lawn aeration?
Simply put, lawn aeration is punching holes a few inches deep into sod so that air, water and nutrients can get into the soil and reach your lawn’s roots. Lawns situated on a foundation of hard, compacted soil benefit from aeration because the process allows essential nutrients and hydration to seep in instead of being trapped on the surface.
The Benefits of Lawn Aeration
Aeration benefits are many:
- Decreases soil compaction
- Improves grass health
- Lets nutrients penetrate deeper into the root zone
- Reduces water runoff or standing water
- Reduces thatch accumulation
- Lets grass roots expand for stronger turf
- Thickens lawns
How can I aerate my lawn?
Most lawn care companies offer aeration services if you want the job professionally done and are nervous about aerating a lawn yourself. With that being said, there are also a few DIY ways to go about lawn aeration as well. Renting a professional aerator is possible through RYAN’S website. You can locate a dealer near you and rent a lawn aerator for a few hours to a day. Learn more in Why Aeration is More Important and Less Daunting Than You Think.
Amazon also offers a few good lawn aeration tools that you can purchase as a part of your lawn care equipment collection if you are fairly certain that aeration needs to become an annual part of your lawn care routine.
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