Professionals say that lawn aerating should be done during fall season. According to the situation, you may even need to do it several times in a year. It should be taken in consideration especially when your lawn is your parking lot, your kids playing ground or a field for various activities. If there is lots of foot traffic, then you should aerate your lawn even more often.
Lawn aerating can be done with special tools and are done in different mode. They can be manual or electric. You can actually hire a professional to do the tiring aeration job. But you can also try it yourself.
What is the purpose of lawn aeration?
Well, the overall purpose of aerating lawn is improving your yard. Aeration can result in easy water absorption of the soil. More water to the grass roots means a greener lawn. A non-compacted soil also implies a small surface runoff. During the fall season, when rains area a common happening, the water will be easily soaked. This also means lower top soil erosion. The grass roots are now able to grow deeper and develop themselves, resulting in a greener grass.
Water is not the only one that has an easy way getting into the ground, but oxygen and the nutrients which the grass needs as well. Without them, water is not that. The better your lawn aerating is done, the easier it will be for you to perform maintenance operations on your soil. That’s because aeration will increase the population of earthworms and soil insects. They are very useful since they aerate the lawn automatically. Maybe not as a good as a real aerator, but their presence will definitely mean less aeration task over the year.
Lawn aerator equipments can be bought in any DIY shops. You can also rent them if you are short in cash at the moment.
