There are several maintenance treatments that are all essential to maintaining a healthy, green, and blemish-free lawn. However, one of the most important treatments in ongoing lawn maintenance is aeration. Why aerate your lawn? Your yard depends on the free flow of nutrients, oxygen, and water throughout the soil to stay healthy and thrive throughout the year. When soil becomes compacted, that circulation is blocked. With the lawn aeration treatments we offer at Lawn Doctor of Batavia-Aurora, we restore the healthy circulation of essential elements to lawns all over the Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, West Chicago, Winfield, Geneva, and Lombard, IL areas.
When to Perform Lawn Aeration in Wheaton Lawns
Spring and Fall are the best times to perform aeration since hot summer temperatures can dry out the turf roots. There are a handful of warning signs that can appear when your lawn requires aeration. Here are a few of the key warning signs our team looks out for when determining if area lawns need to be aerated:
Too Much Thatch. Thatch is a layer of dead plant material that exists between your soil and the blades of your grass. If your lawn’s layer of thatch is too thick, it can prevent water and oxygen from penetrating the soil, leading to a slow and steady decline in its ongoing health. Our aeration treatments promote the heathy decomposition of the thatch layer, thinning it out and allowing the elements your lawn needs to reach deep into the soil.
Difficulty Penetrating the Soil with a Probe. If your lawn sees heavy foot traffic or machine use throughout the year, the damage to your soil can add up over time. With our aeration treatments, we’ll break up soil that has become compacted due to any type of traffic. This process will rejuvenate your lawn by reintroducing the necessary pore spaces into the soil for oxygen, water, and nutrients.
Turf that is Failing to Thrive. If your lawn is just not growing well, does not appear to be absorbing water well, does not appear to be greening-up properly, or frequently showing disease, then aeration is necessary.
Call Lawn Doctor of Batavia-Aurora today at (630) 406-8535 to learn more about our lawn aeration treatments in Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, West Chicago, Winfield, Geneva, Lombard, and the surrounding communities.
