Keeping your lawn’s soil healthy is integral to keeping your lawn healthy and looking great throughout the year. A crucial step in keeping your lawn’s soil healthy is regular lawn aeration. Lawns can become compacted over time, which can block plants from accessing the nutrients and essential elements they need to survive seasonal transitions and maintain consistent growth. Aeration restores this access by opening up circulation within the upper layers of soil through the removal of strategically-selected sections of soil. At Lawn Doctor of Winston-Salem, we offer our lawn aeration service to help bring healthy circulation back to lawns all over the Winston-Salem and Lewisville, NC areas.
Determining if Your Lawn Needs Aeration
Lawn aeration can have a positive impact on your lawn at several points throughout the year. However, there are certain seasons when aeration is the most beneficial. Specifically, lawn aeration is the most effective just prior to the optimum growing season, which is towards the end of spring for warm season grasses and closer to the beginning of spring for cool season grasses. In addition to these defined timeframes, there are some telltale characteristics that can point to compacted soil and the need for aeration. Here are a few of those characteristics:
- There are vehicles frequently parked on your grass
- Your lawn has developed brown spots
- Puddles form during light rainfall
- Your lawn has been damaged by outdoor sports, entertaining, pets or children
- Grass growth has slowed or stopped completely
- There are excessive amounts of thatch (dead plant matter) in the upper layers of your grass
How Our Lawn Aeration Service Helps Winston-Salem Residents
When you choose the lawn aeration services we offer at Lawn Doctor of Winston-Salem, you’re putting your lawn on the path to consistent, healthy growth. When we use our core aerating equipment to remove sections of your lawn’s soil, we’re breaking up the top layers to increase permeability. This permeability boost allows all of the essential elements your lawn needs to penetrate the soil and create an environment more conducive to healthy growth. Breaking up the soil also has the benefit of freeing up space around your lawn’s roots to allow them to expand more freely.
Call Lawn Doctor of Winston-Salem today at (336) 766-3676 to schedule your free consultation and learn more about the lawn aeration service we offer our neighbors in Winston-Salem, Lewisville and the surrounding communities.
