What Are The Benefits Of Aerating My Lawn?

Keep A Healthy Lawn All Year Long

Central Florida is known for the fantastic theme parks and fantastic weather throughout the year. While Central Florida does not experience the same cool-weather as many other parts of the U.S. in early fall or early spring, winter can still impact grassroots.

However, even a well-maintained lawn can be harmed from high foot traffic and excessive thatch from lawn mowers.

You need to protect the root development no matter your type of grass, and core aeration is the perfect way to restore your lawn after the summer months.

What Is Core Aeration?

Compacted soil and thick thatch buildup can wreak havoc on your lawn’s health, and if your lawn doesn’t shed water away from your property, then your home could be in danger.

This is where lawn aeration comes into play because this basic lawn care technique removes plugs of roots and thatch from the soil surface to improve water absorption of topsoil throughout the year.

Core aeration is a process that removes small plugs from your soil, creating small holes in your lawn and removing thatch buildup that restricts how much air and water can reach the root zone of your lawn.

In all, lawn aeration is a vital part of your lawn care plan, and LawnWorx is the trusted expert for Central Florida homeowners like you.

What Are The Benefits Of Lawn Aeration?

Compaction is the root cause of most lawn problems. Compact soil prevents grass from establishing a healthy root system. Let’s look at the top benefits that core aeration offers your lawn maintenance today!

1. Improve Soil Permeability

Homeowners of new construction projects often find various landscaping issues with their lawns. Subdivisions are notorious for highly compacted soil because home developers of subdivisions are not concerned with homeowners’ long-term lawn needs.

Often, the turfgrass that is brought in contains soil compacted with clay, which can impact how much water can reach root systems. In turn, the compacted soil can negatively impact how water drains away from your property and how your grass grows throughout the growing season.

Be sure to inspect your lawn if you buy a new home or build a new home in a subdivision. During the inspection, make sure the soil surface absorbs water and sheds water away from your property, so you don’t experience flooding during the rainy season.

If you notice you have compacted soil or clay soil that prevents proper runoff, then you will need to schedule lawn aeration services to address your lawn’s needs.

2. Remove Lawn Thatch

Thatch, the dead layer of grass that accumulates on your lawn, can build up to a thick and unenjoyable thickness. This deprives your grass of necessary rainwater and nutrients, which leaves it susceptible to diseases like bloat leaf spot and brown patch if not treated immediately.

Core aeration helps manage this by introducing microorganisms from within soil into those layers at different depths, breaking down organic matter with their enzymes while releasing beneficial minerals back into your lawn’s topsoil.

3. Grow A Thick & Healthy Lawn

Aeration is the key to a healthy lawn. Achieving this goal starts with properly aerating your soil, allowing air and water for better absorption by roots of grasses or other plants growing there.

When nutrients can reach your lawn’s root zone, your lawn will grow thicker and healthier than ever before!

4. Prepare Your Lawn For Winter

You don’t want your grass to go dormant without being in tip-top shape, so make sure it gets its fall maintenance. Pairing with potash will help the nutrients soak into the soil more effectively and protect against summer drought stress while giving you a healthy lawn all winter long!

To give your lawn the best chance in a hot summer, make sure to aerate it before going dormant. This will help with fall gardening and fertilization when the grass needs more nutrients for its growth cycle.

5. Reduce Soil Compression

Compacted soil can cause air, water, and fertilizer to bypass the root system of your lawn, causing dead spots or patches in an otherwise healthy-looking landscape.

Removing cores during the aeration process will decrease compaction by making it easier for these resources to reach deep within compacted earth which may lead you to have thinning grass due to lack of adequate nutrients once again!

When Should I Aerate My Lawn?

The best time to perform your fall lawn care is between September and December. In this period, you should also get rid of any weeds that have grown in the meantime because they’ll be competing with the grass for nutrients and water sources during their growth phase – which can lead them into a weakened state if left unchecked.

Schedule Core Aeration Today!

You can trust that our expert lawn care specialists at LawnWorx will take great care of your yard with professional aeration services. This essential part of lawn care will help break up thick layers of material from your lawn and loosen up compressed soil to allow more water and oxygen to reach the roots of your lawn.

We’ve been serving the area for over 20 years and have a professional, friendly team who knows how to make sure you get the most out of your investment in healthy soil.

If you want to learn more about what we do or would like us to come to give you an estimate on servicing your property, feel free to contact us at (407) 854-8580 today!

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