How To Tell If a Lawn Needs Aerating

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There are several important tasks to lawn maintenance. To keep your lawn looking its best, it needs: weeding, feeding, mowing and of course, aerating.

Why aerate your grass? Here are the top reasons why this will help the health and appearance of your lawn:

Over time, your lawn may become thatched. Thatching is when dead grass, or even debris accumulates on the surface of your lawn. Over time, this can prevent nutrients getting to the roots of the grass and weakening it. Aeration effectively breaks this up.
In Douglas County where we’ve got a lot of heavy clay soils, the aerating can help.
If your lawn gets a lot of foot traffic from kids, pets, and backyard BBQs or entertaining, that can compact the soil over time. Aeration helps to loosen the soil up.

We recently came across a good article on the BioAdvanced website that does a great job of explaining how to tell if your lawn needs aerating along with an helpful aeration check list. Read on >

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How To Tell If a Lawn Needs Aerating

Want to make aerating your lawn as easy as possible?

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