Lawn Aerators
If you haven’t reserved a turf lawn aerator for spring, now is a good time to
make the call!
The most beneficial thing you can do for your lawn in the spring is to aerate
it.
- It helps to keep the soil of your yard from becoming saturated by heavy
rainfalls by breaking up soil clumps and creating new paths for drainage.
- It helps moisture seep down into your soil and preserves it for future use
by both your lawn and the microbes, earthworms, and other life forms that live
in your lawn and are beneficial to your turf.
- It gives easy growing room to your turfs root system.
- It provides fresh air that rejuvenates your soil and sustains the living
colony underground.
- It helps work in compost.
- It helps thatch decay.
Before you reserve an aerator, you might want to check the density of thatch
in your lawn as well as the composition of your soil. Both are important in
helping you choose the proper aeration tool. And play an important role in how
well your yard will do in summer. Sandy soils generally offer good drainage
while clay based soils often need heavy-duty aeration. While a half-inch of
thatch is both normal and healthy for your turf, if your yard is more heavily
thatched core aeration is probably the best way to aerate.
The type of tool you use for your lawn depends both on the size of your lawn and
how hard you want to work! Small, sandy areas that have little or no thatch can
be aerated by walking across them heel to toe wearing a pair of spiked shoes. Or
use a water injected lawn aerator. Both mechanical and manual aerators are
available for rent or sale at most good lawn mower and lawn care home improvement outlets and garden
supply houses. Some manual aerators are little more than long spikes that you
push into the ground. (Ladies, aeration could put those 3-inch stilettos to good
use again!)
The best type of aeration tool is the core aerator. Core aerators are available
as walk along, walk behind, and attachments that pull behind riding mowers and
lawn tractors. Although core aerators leave ugly plugs of soil and turf all over
your lawn, if you aerate in the spring, rainfall will soon help them decompose
and become a valuable part of your yard’s topsoil.
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