Lawn aeration is the most important application you can give your lawn, the grass will not flourish if the roots can’t get the nutrients, water and air it requires.
The soil particles get pushed closer together by heavy rainfall or traffic on the surface, making it difficult for moisture and gases, essential for grass development, to flow freely back and forth through the soil to the roots and surface, leading to poor root development. Poorly developed roots lead to weak grass and poor drought and disease tolerance.
Compacted ground can have serious consequences for any lawn but can be cured by simply aerating the soil. Pitch Perfect Lawns can aerate your lawn and relieve compaction.
We have professional aerating machines that move across the lawn surface punching different types of tines 2- 3 inches into the ground making hundreds of small holes in the lawn. The tines can be hollow to enable them to pull a soil core out of the ground which helps remove troublesome thatch as well as aerating the ground. We also have an aerating machine called a Fracture Tine Aerator that has 5in heavy duty blades that are off set. This is good at shifting the soil under the turf with no cores to clean up afterwards. We have found good results by alternating them yearly. Lawns should be regularly aerated to ensure that the grass roots are healthy and can develop and is a must to any lawn care programme.
Due to the volume of rain we get in Scotland, for a large part of the year the lawn’s surface remains damp and compacted, moss in particular loves these conditions. Aeration helps alleviate the compaction and gives the surface better drainage and in turn can reduce the growth of moss. We now recommend some type of aeration once a year.
Heavy soils (clay), will become compacted a lot quicker and need to be hollow tine aerated to reduce the effects of the compaction in the soil and can be top dressed with a 70 % sand loam mix to improve soil ventilation once every 3 – 4 years.
Our Lawn Aeration Service covers Perth, Dundee and surrounding areas and is highly effective in helping keeping your lawn healthy.
Lawn Aeration costs start at £60.
