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Bookmark or Share- When, Why and How to Aerate the Lawn - The Family HandymanUpdated: Dec. 01, 2023. Sherry Barr Photography/Getty Images. Aerating is one of the most important lawn maintenance tasks, yet it's often overlooked. Here's why and when to aerate your lawn, and how to do it.
- Aeration: Why, How & When to Aerate Your LawnAeration involves perforating the soil with small holes to allow air, water and nutrients to penetrate the grass roots. This helps the roots grow deeply and produce a stronger, more vigorous lawn. The main reason for aerating is to alleviate soil compaction.
- How and When to Aerate Your Soil: Improve Compacted SoilAeration is simply introducing more airflow and oxygen into the soil particles. Methods include broad forking, double digging, grazing, spike aeration, and cover cropping. Aerated soil promotes stronger root growth, nutrient absorption, water infiltration, and overall plant health.
- When and How Do You Aerate Your Lawn? - The SpruceLawn aeration simply means making holes, slices, or using other methods to help air, water, and nutrients to penetrate the soil. The process of lawn aeration can be done by hand (or by foot with shoe spikes), with a pitchfork or spading fork ("spiking"), or with more elaborate tools or liquid solutions. Why Lawns Need Aeration.
- Why, When and How to Aerate Your Lawn - PenningtonAeration helps penetrate and reduce thatch buildup or prep it for removal through dethatching. If your grass often looks stressed and your soil is hard to the touch or rainwater puddles up where it used to be absorbed, you may have compaction problems. Confirm your suspicions with a simple "screwdriver test."
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