Aerating

Caring for lawn could sometimes be very complex spending most your time and effort with all those mowing,fertilizing, edging your lawn and having headaches how to escape with pests and diseases being suffered by your lawn and one of the best thing that you could do for your lawn is Aerating.

Important benefits of Aerating your Lawn are:

• For best growth of roots to greater depth of soil
• Perk up the decomposition of thatch by soil bacterias.
• More supply of oxygen,water and nutrients needed by grass.
• To aid in the prevention of the damage of important fertilizer because of run off dense area within the lawn.
• To improve water infiltration to soil.

Aerating is a process of giving enough air for your soil to breathe to help lessen your soil from being dense thus through this, it will give way for the oxygen, fertilizer, water and the essential nutrients for the healthy growth and to deeply absorb from the soil to the roots of your grass.This is done by punching holes into the soil with the following tools: A special shoes, coring machine or just a hand tool. A special shoes preferably a spiked shoes could help unfasten the soil from being compacted as you walk around it using that specific kind of shoes. Another way is that through the use of a mechanical core aerator that could eliminate mechanically the plugs of soil and thatch on your lawn. In any case, those procedures are very significant to promote a healthy growth for your lawn.

Aerating your lawn should be done either in fall or spring this will count on the type of grass you have in your lawn. For cool season grass, aerating should be done during fall the time where you could avoid heat damage. Warm season grass, aerating will take place on summer and spring for quick growth. In aerating with either season, it should always be on a moderate temperature where the soil is damp. In addition, The perfect way to identify when your lawn needs aerating is to get a portion of turf from the lawn's edge. When you see that the roots are touching 1-2 inch from its soil, then it is compacted and needs aeration. Provided, you should also learn the type of grass from your lawn for you to know the average depth for the roots to grow.