Mowing, watering, and fertilizing are just half the battle when it comes to getting and keeping your lawn healthy. According to the lawn care experts at Lawn Doctor of Hamilton County, in order for your lawn to stay strong and look beautiful, you also need to aerate. And if you’re like many homeowners in the Carmel, IN area and have cool-season turf, fall is the ideal time to perform this important lawn care task. But how can your lawn benefit?
In the summertime, you use your lawn a lot. Whether you have young kids running and playing, or host backyard picnics and parties, the end result is the same: heavy traffic that leads to soil compaction. As your soil gets more compacted, roots become compressed and eventually suffocate. Not only that, but they can’t properly absorb water, sunlight or nutrients from the soil. They therefore become weaker over time and can eventually die.
The good news is that with aeration, Carmel area homeowners can deliver th
e right lawn care treatment to break up soil compaction. With this process, plugs of soil and thatch are punched out from throughout your lawn. This, in turn:
- Creates pathways for more nutrients and water to get absorbed.
- Provides an environment for better air exchange.
- Encourages root growth so roots grow deeper and stronger.
- Produces a thicker, healthier-looking lawn.
- Boosts resistance to drought, heat, and other stressors.
- Makes your lawn less susceptible to diseases, weeds, insects, and pests.
- Offers ideal conditions for seeding with better seed-to-soil contact and higher germination rates.
If you’re unsure whether compaction is a problem in your lawn, you can look for some signs, such as water puddling after rainfall, a thick layer of surface thatch on the soil, and bare or thinning grass in areas. Also, if you park vehicles on your lawn, or drive over it regularly, your soil will get compacted. In addition, if you have heavy clay soil, it will get more compacted than other soil types.
Lawn Doctor of Hamilton County has a trick to tell for sure if your soil is compacted – push a pencil or screwdriver into your lawn. If you encounter a lot of resistance – and it’s difficult to do – your soil is compacted.
Get Help from the Carmel Area’s Trusted Choice in Lawn Care & Aeration Services
At Lawn Doctor of Hamilton County, homeowners from across Carmel, Fishers, Westfield, Zionsville and Noblesville turn to us time and again for one simple reason: we deliver beautiful results. When it comes to lawn aeration, we rely on experienced technicians along with leading-edge, proprietary equipment. It’s technology not available from any other lawn care company in the Carmel area and means we get the job done right, the first time.
To set up your free consultation, call Lawn Doctor of Hamilton County at 317.218.9933. We offer lawn care services to customers all over Carmel, Zionsville, Fishers, Noblesville, and Westfield, as well as in the surrounding communities.
