Can Your Lawn Breathe?
Professional golf course superintendents have known for decades that the secret to thick, healthy turf is aerating their courses two or three times each year. Opening up the soil allows the grass roots room to grow and breathe.
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Get some air into your soil and your root system will respond, growing deep and dense, producing a thicker, healthier turf. |
Most everyone understands the need for regular fertilization, watering and proper mowing in maintaining a healthy lawn. Few people, however, realize the importance and benefits of lawn aeration.
Soil compaction can be your lawn’s worst enemy. Compacted soils restrict air penetration deep in the soil, causing roots to suffocate and die. As a result, roots grow shallow and horizontal up on the surface where air is available. This condition leads to weak, unhealthy turf, thatch problems and lawns that are more susceptible to drought, insect and disease injury.
The root system is the heart of the grass plant. Core aerating on an annual basis encourages deep, dense, healthy root growth. Lawns with healthy root systems are stronger and better able to survive insects, disease and drought conditions.
 
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Some of the Many Benefits of Aeration
Relieves soil compaction
Helps reduce and prevent thatch
Improves the penetration of air, moisture and nutrients deep in the soil, promoting deeper, denser, healthier root growth
Reduces the need for homeowner irrigation
Improves the effectiveness of lawn care products
Breaks up layered soils so moisture and nutrients can penetrate deeply
Stimulates new side growth, resulting in thicker lawns
Improves drought tolerance through deeper roots
Reduces moisture and nutrient run-off
Decreases weed problems
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