You fertilize regularly. If this scenario strikes a chord, the reason might well be a failure to aerate. While most homeowners value a healthy, green lawn, the unfortunate fact is that most varieties of turf grass tend to be prima donnas, and keeping your lawn looking its best takes time, elbow grease, and even a bit of luck. There are quite a few tasks required to maintain a healthy lawn, including watering, fertilizing , weeding, mowing, disease and pest control, and aerating.
At the most basic level, aeration means poking holes into the soil beneath your lawn so that water, nutrients, and oxygen can easily reach the roots. Over time, the soil beneath your lawn tends to become hard and compacted, particularly in areas with heavy or clayey soil. Symptoms of a lawn suffering from compaction include the following:.
While heavy, clayey soil naturally compresses over time, there are several other factors that lead to excessive compaction that can damage your lawn:. You can rent gas-powered aerators at many home improvement or garden centers. However, if you have just a small lawn or strip of grass, a manual lawn aerator will get the job done, and no need to smell gas fumes or bother with the inconvenience of renting a machine. Spike aerators basically just poke holes into the soil. They do help loosen the soil and improve the health of the grass to a certain extent.
Plug aerators remove a little cylinder or plug of soil, roots, and grass. These aerators are more effective at loosening and improving the soil. There are three basic types of manual lawn aerator: aerator shoes, handheld aerators, and rolling or push aerators, each with its own pros and cons.
Aerating shoes: These are spike aerators that strap over your regular shoes and have nail-like metal spikes on the bottoms of the plastic outsoles. Using them is easy: just strap them on and walk back and forth across the width and length of the lawn two or three times, changing directions at each pass.
Handheld aerators: These resemble a pitchfork with two or three sharp tines and a long handle. There are two basic forms of handheld aerators: those that remove plugs of soil and grass, and those that are just spike aerators. With either style, you should make several passes across the entire lawn in different directions to thoroughly aerate the stretch of turf. Handheld aerators have longer tines than aerating shoes, and the sharp tines dig down easily into compacted soil and so are more effective.
Plug-style handheld aerators are the most tiring type of manual lawn aerator to use and therefore only suited to small lawns. Push aerators: These are also called rolling aerators or lawn spikers. They consist of a sturdy handle and cage-like rolling drum covered with sharp spikes.
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