If you want a healthy, beautiful lawn, you need more than strong roots and grass. Your soil needs to be in peak shape, too. If it’s not, and you’re seeing thin, patchy grass, or standing puddles of water, your lawn may need to be aerated. And as local lawn care experts in the Ocean City, MD area, Lawn Doctor of The Lower Eastern Shore knows autumn is the ideal time for aerating cool-season turf. Here’s how your lawn can benefit.
The ABCs of Aeration and How It Impacts Your Lawn
Do you use your lawn a lot? Play on it, park on it, and host guests on it? Then soil compaction m
ay be an issue. Combined with surface thatch build-up, it can actually wreak havoc on your lawn. First off, it prevents nutrients, water, sunlight, and oxygen from getting absorbed by grass roots, resulting in weak growth and poor color. Over time, as soil compaction continues, it can also start to suffocate your lawn, leading to root death.
But as the Ocean City area’s trusted choice in lawn care, Lawn Doctor of The Lower Eastern Shore knows the good news is that by simply aerating your lawn, you can overcome these issues. Lawn aeration cuts through thatch and soil compaction, opening your lawn up to more water, nutrients, sunlight and air. It can therefore recover from compaction and grow in thicker, healthier and stronger.
If you’re not certain whether soil compaction is the culprit, simply perform the screwdriver test. Take a screwdriver and plunge it into the soil. If it’s easy to get in, compaction is likely not an issue. If, however, it’s a struggle, your lawn can benefit from aeration.
Why We’re the Ocean City Area’s Experts in Lawn Care & Aeration Services
When it comes to lawn aeration, timing and the right equipment are both critical. For instance, fall is ideal for aerating cool-season turf. However, you need to ensure you do it early enough to give your lawn the opportunity to fill in holes before winter hits. Lawn Doctor of The Lower Eastern Shore can help you in both timing and equipment.
Likewise, while there are many different aeration techniques in the Ocean City area, our lawn care experts at Lawn Doctor of The Lower Eastern Shore only rely on core aeration. With this approach, we use our proprietary equipment to punch out plugs of soil in your lawn. Not only is this process more efficient at combating compaction, but it doesn’t damage your existing grass in the process.
A thicker, healthier lawn is within easy reach with Lawn Doctor of The Lower Eastern Shore. Just call us today at 410-641-3111 to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation evaluation. Our lawn care solutions – including aeration – are available to homeowners in Ocean City, Salisbury and Berlin, MD, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and in the surrounding communities.
