What is Aeration?
Throughout your lawn’s life, the soil gets compacted from normal traffic and soil settling. Compacted soil will prohibit nutrient distribution between and to the roots of the grass, causing your grass to not be able to grow thick and green.
At Integrated Lawn and Tree, we use a technique called core aeration where we remove hundreds to thousands of core samples from your yard. This allows the subsurface soil to loosen up and aid in the distribution of important nutrients.
Why Aeration
Without a core aeration schedule, unseen soil compaction can cause frustration when fertilization and watering schedules aren’t getting the healthy, green grass you’re looking for.
Your grass roots aren’t able to disperse important nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, or even water that are necessary for strong root and blade growth. Essentially, the dirt around the grass roots is suffocating the root system.
Things to Consider
Of course lawn aeration isn’t the only part to the equation that gets and keeps your grass healthy and greed. A healthy, green lawn consists of a combination of a lot of things including, proper irrigation, minimal thatch, and mowing at the correct length.
Thatch Buildup
Thatch is a buildup of dead grass roots and blades withing the upper layer of the soil. Thatch makes it next to impossible for grass to grow thick and strong in areas where thatch is most prevalent. Since it’s essentially layers of dead roots, aeration techniques won’t be able to reach the soil well enough to loosen up the soil, that’s why we offer dethatching/verticutting services.