About Lawn Aerators and Aeration
About Lawn Aerators and Aeration
Welcome to Lawn Aerator! We hope you love aerating as much as we do. Our site is dedicated to helping you find out all you need to know about aeration and comparing different types of useful aerating equipment.
Although many people believe aerating is expensive and can take a lot of time, it really does work and in the majority of cases it is well worth the time and effort.
There are a lot of benefits to using aeration on your lawn. For starters, it keeps your lawn greener, reducing the cost of watering. In clay soils, it can also improve drainage and reduces water runoff by as much as 40%. This means water will actually sink into the soil rather than just running into the street. Newer sod-ed lawns (between 1 and 5 years) benefit from aeration because it encourages sod roots to grow deeper and grass to establish itself faster. In hard yards aerating can reduce soil compaction.
Aeration plugs, also called cores, contain micro-organisms that help break down thatch. Also, they can pierce through thick layers of thatch and allow the oxygen in to help decompose the thatch faster.
A lawn aerator can also reduce drought damage. Lawns that are aerated in the early, develop deeper roots and they can be watered less often. Deeper roots make the grass more likely to survive a drought.
Lastly Aerating helps allow water, air, and fertilizers more direct access to your root system. The benefits of aerating can be compared to 1000 of earthworms working full time for you for 3 to 4 months. The ultimate purpose of a lawn aerator is to build the turf and the root system.
We would like you to find out which types work best for you.
Hand Aerators- are convenient to use and relatively in expensive. They normall cost between $10 and $40. They are perfect on smaller lawns and for use when the lawn is still relatively soft. The draws back to these are as lawns
get hard hard aerators may prove harder to use and they are time consuming on large lots.
Liquid Aerator- This is a great substitution for aerating if the lawn if hilly or very uneven. Liquid areator also notain soil additive to make it softer and more conducieve to organic material. The draw back is that it works best when combined with a regular core aerator.
Tow or Pull behind aerator- If you already own a riding mower or have a big lot and would like a riding mower, these can really be a great investment. If you have a big lot, you could save a few hundred dollars a year on watering and this might even pay for the pull behind lawn aerator.
Mechanical Aerator-This works great! Cores last for 3-6 months. The best way to do this is to do it yourself by
renting an aerator, or hiring a service.
Aerator Shoes- If you spend a lot of time in your lawn this could be the thing to use. It is a good idea and several manufactures are working hard to get the kink’s out of them. The only draw back is that it really takes a lot of walking, (like weekly mowing) for them to be effective. They are a great tool to use in conjunction with a plugger or a liquid aerator.