Whether you’re interested in having the nicest lawn in town or just want healthy, lush green grass for your kids and pets to play on, you’ll want to know about lawn aeration. Lawn aeration is one of many lawn care services that help transform less than lovely landscapes into beautiful green spaces for outdoor living.
Healthy Grass Needs Loose Soil. You May Not Have Loose Soil in Your Yard.
Here in the East Bridgewater area, many homeowners share a common challenge. Heavily compacted, hard soils make it very difficult for new grass seed to get established. It’s also hard for established grass to survive in clay or poor soil.
Regionally, these hard compacted soils can occur due to natural regional variations. The presence of clay and other dense soil types is fairly common throughout this part of Massachusetts. Additionally, soils can become compacted due to human activity. When people drive vehicles or heavy equipment over a property – such as could happen during home construction or renovations – or have lots of fun running around and playing games – the soil can get compressed until it becomes very hard.
To counter the problem of heavily compacted soils, you’ll want to coordinate with your East Bridgewater lawn aeration service. Lawn aeration requires the use of special equipment – expensive, specialty equipment few homeowners ever purchase for themselves – to introduce thousands of tiny holes into the lawn’s surface. These pencil-eraser sized holes loosen the soil. This makes it easier for roots to grow, and helpful biological agents – ie earthworms – to move through the soil efficiently. You’ll be able to have healthy grass growing in areas that had previously been concrete-hard bare patches.
Lawn aeration is a service that you’ll have to have performed periodically to keep your lawn looking its best. Locally, most homeowners have lawn aeration performed annually or every other year.
