The best time to aerate is when your grass is actively growing—spring or fall in cool areas, and late spring in warm ones.

Lush green lawns don't happen by accident; they take care, hard work and timing. One of the numerous tasks that will help cultivate a healthy lawn is aeration. When and how to aerate your lawn depends ...

It’s that time of year again when fescue lawns in Charlottesville need to be aerated and seeded. With the cooler temperatures that October brings, it is the perfect time! Every summer, fescue grass ...

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Lawn aerating involves perforating your lawn with many small holes, breaking up heavily compacted soil so water, nutrients and oxygen can better reach the roots. This lawn care process improves ...

If you have a lawn, you need to aerate it so it can grow lush and strong. Aerating helps break up compacted soil, allowing air, water and essential nutrients to reach the roots. This, in turn, helps ...

The days at the end of the growing season seem to fly by as the weather changes. If aerating and overseeding is on your end-of-season lawn to-do list, don’t wait too long into the fall. Cold ...

Aeration is often touted as important, but it's often a task that's ignored, especially by homeowners with large lawns. In fact, our own group of friends questioned me to learn if it was truly ...

Is your lawn looking patchy? Soil compaction is one common reason for patches of dead grass or bald spots on a lawn. For example, if your yard gets a lot of foot traffic, this presses the soil down ...

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Your lawn needs water and other nutrients to keep it looking lush. Unfortunately, when soil becomes compacted, water and air cannot reach the lower layers of the soil. In that situation, any nutrient ...