Does your lawn need help?

Would you like an evenly growing healthy lawn without bare patches?

In most home lawns, the natural soil has been seriously disturbed by the building process. Fertile topsoil may have been removed or buried during excavation process, leaving subsoil that is more compact, higher in clay content and less desirable for healthy lawn growth. These lawns need aeration to improve the depth and extent of grass rooting and to improve fertilizer and water use.

Intensively used lawns are exposed to stress from traffic injury. Walking, playing and mowing are forms of traffic that compact soil and stress lawns. Lawn traffic & natural compaction increases soil density by compacting soil particles and reducing large air spaces where roots may readily grow.

Compaction is greater on heavy clay soils than on sandy soils, and it is greatest in the upper 2-5cm of soil. Aeration helps heavily used lawn and lawns growing on compacted soils by improving the depth and extent of grass rooting, allowing better water uptake, enhancing fertilizer use.

Lawn aerations have the following benefits;

• Improves the exchange between the soil and atmosphere.
• Increases water intake.
• Reduces water runoff and puddling.
• Stimulates root development.
• Reduced soil compaction.
• Increases the tolerance to heat and drought stress.
• Improved resiliency and cushioning.
• Enhanced thatch breakdown. What are the benefits of Aeration?
• Core aeration helps the lawn's health and vigour, and it reduces maintenance requirements.

Lawn & turf experts often refer to the practices of soil aeration as soil cultivation (coring, spiking and slicing).