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Regular aeration keeps grass healthy and disease-free. What Is Lawn Aeration? Benefits of Lawn Aeration Aeration is particularly useful for lawns that undergo a lot of foot traffic. This significantly reduces the spaces in the soil that would typically hold air.
How Aeration Improves Your Lawn Aeration increases oxygen, water, and nutrient movement through the soil. Aeration creates stronger roots. Aeration allows for better absorption of rainfall and irrigation. Aeration helps develop a topsoil layer underneath the grass. Aeration prevents fertilizer and pesticide runoff. Aeration inhibits thatch accumulation. Does My Lawn Need Aeration?
In that case, your lawn could significantly benefit from aeration. The thatch on your lawn is greater than one-half inch. You have dense clay soil. The soil stays shaded preserving moisture and weed seeds don't get enough light to germinate. If you have the same types of lawn grasses bluegrass, fescue If there is not at least 3" of photosynthetic top growth the plant can't make enough food to feed the roots and you have stressed, whimpy grass allowing weeds to get started in the sparse lawn.
Here is a tip that will make a humongous difference: Fertilize at least twice a year with a slow release organic fertilizer. I used Dr. Earth Lawn Fertilizer and was blown away with the difference in my lawns! A bit more expensive but it lasts longer, adds bacteria that aid thatch-breakdown, and beneficial fungi that help the plant uptake nutrients, water. Don't mess with moss-killer, that will lower your pH and lawns love a bit higher pH 6.
If you want a beautiful lawn you should definitely get your soil tested. Only add lime if the pH is below 6. Moss is an opportunist If you get your grass healthy, mow high and allow to dry out in between watering about 1" per week I only watered my 'trained' lawns, once per week and they were thick, cool, soft and no weeds. Aerate once per year minimum. You might want to up it to a second aeration for a few years.
If you have more than 1" thatch you will need to do it and then reseed, mulch, roll Lot of work but really is for drastic measures as it ruins your lawn thus having to start over. Hope this helps, there are more things one needs to learn in order to have a beautiful and healthy lawn!
Stay away from herbicides, pesticides and quick fix instant fertilizers that call themselves 'plant food. For that money they'll even tell you how much of what soil ammendments you deed to apply. But IF you are going in blind, it seems almost a wast to aerate and stop at that. The seed needs to be appropriate to your conditions. Then provide enough irrigation to keep the soil, compost, and seed from drying out until the grass has sprouted and a more standard irrigation regime can help it get established.
Purists I once knew would rake up all the cores and then fill the holes with sand; but that was starting with a pristine lawn. I wouldn't even bother to spend the time and money aerating a grungy lawn until you get the grass to grow. I just bought a pull behind aerator for my new lawn tractor; both of which I had owned before at a previous house. I always just let the cores melt back into the soil naturally: no special watering, seeding, or fertilizing.
And to keep the need for aerating to a minimum make sure there are plenty of worms in the lawn. The holes left in the ground reduce compaction in soil, which keeps water and nutrients from getting to grass roots and allows the roots to spread freely.
Aerating also helps breaks up the thatch layer. Always use a plug aerator, because those with solid spikes don't aerate the soil correctly. Don't panic when you first see you newly aerated lawn. It might look like it just rained giant dirt plugs. These plugs are full of nutrients, and leaving them on the grass allows them to break down naturally to return nutrients to the soil below.
This is recommended to keep a lawn happy and healthy all year long. The average residential lawn only needs this service once a year. It all varies on the amount of traffic your lawn receives. If you have a golf course that sees a large amount of foot traffic, it will need to be aerated several times a year. The average lawn in the Kansas City area will need to be done once to twice a year. The aeration is completed and now it is time to overseed. Overseeding is applying a large amount of seed to your lawn.
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