LAWN Aeration

There are many benefits to aerating your lawn.  Aeration promotes healthier, thicker grass by getting nutrients, water and oxygen into your soil and strengthening your turf’s root system. Soil that has a lot of clay and sand compacts readily.  Compacted soil, commonly found in Durham Region the GTA, makes it difficult for water, nutrients and oxygen to penetrate down in to the soil to feed the root system of the lawn. Aeration combined with watering twice a week also helps to protect your home’s foundation, driveway, sidewalks, and other concrete structures on your property by keeping your soil from drying out and losing nutrients. .

What is the Best Way to Aerate?

The best and most common way to aerate your lawn is with a lawn aeration machine. A machine called a core aerator is used to pull plugs of soil, thatch and grass and eject these soil cores on the ground. This machine can be rented from a local home improvement store or you can contact Odds N Sods have your lawn professionally aerated. Why do you need to poke holes in your soil? If you want to have a great looking lawn you need to have a good root system in your grass. Creating lots of holes in your soil lets it breathe so that water and other vital nutrients as well as oxygen can more easily penetrate the soil. These holes also allow the roots to more easily grow deeper and spread, strengthening your lawn’s root system. Aeration holes also provides grass seed with easy places to germinate if you plan to overseed.

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