How To Use A Lawn
Aerator
By
Kelvin Ho Wee Min
Nearly every lawn could use a lawn aerator. A lawn aerator is a tool that will help turn the soil and create holes in the top portion of the soil. It is that simple! When the soil is broken up and holes are created, the soil can then get water and air to the appropriate roots to help grass and plants grow and stay healthy. Earthworms will also be able to get into the soil to help fertilize the soil with much ease.
The soil often becomes compacted due to various human activities such as when the soil is being walked on, played on, driven on or anything else done on it. Unfortunately, when this happens, it slowly begins to suffocate the grass and eventually kills it. Your lawn problem may not be due to insects or anything else. It could just be that the soil has become too compacted and the grass can not get any water and earthworms can not get the air to breath. This is when a lawn aerator can help fix all of your problems.
Use your lawn aerator regularly, such as in the autumn and spring. Do not use your lawn aerator on dry soil; use it only when it is damp. Do not use your lawn aerator when the soil is deeply waterlogged or extremely dry.
Use your lawn aerator on a regular basis and whenever it is needed. Use it properly and you will have rich, fresh grass and plants growing on your lawn. It will be as beautiful as it can be. This is especially important if you plan to create a garden, plant flowers or anything else. Earthworms, water and oxygen will all help to keep your garden, plants and flowers to stay healthy and grow to their fullest potential.
Use your lawn aerator just before planting your seeds, no matter what type of plant, flower or food you might be planting. This will help tremendously during the growth process. Earthworms need to get into the soil and help your crops grow. Air and water needs to get into the roots of your plants to help them grow and survive.
A lawn aerator can help you create a beautiful flower bed, grow your own crops for eating, and even grow plants. If you have a business in this area, a lawn aerator will become your best friend for keeping your gardens healthy. You will be able to grow and sell even more plants than you ever imagined.
Even if gardening is just a hobby of yours, an aerator is vital to your plants. Create a beautiful landscape in your own yard with a lawn aerator. Just imagine what you can do with your lawn – even is it is just aerating your soil so the grass will grow, become more dense and look so healthy your neighbors will be asking you what your secret is.
You can keep it a secret if you would like, but you know that it was just using a simple garden tool – your new lawn aerator. This tool can mean the difference between having grass on your lawn or not. It can mean the difference between planting and growing beautiful plants and crops, or helplessly watching them try to grow and die.
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Looking after a garden is a year round job for some. If you get a brief break because there is snow on the ground, then there maybe some things you might want to research before Spring.
Spring isn't the only nor always the best time to do prep work. If you need to re-seed patches where the lawn looks bare, just before the snow comes is a good time of the year to start. The seeds will get worked into the soil as the snow falls and lay dormant during the winter months.
Once spring and the first melt arrive then the seeds will be in good mud and the early stages of germination will begin. Once they start getting the sun then good, fresh grass should follown in a couple of weeks.
Crabgrass and its relatives don't thrive in the Fall or Winter and this means that you have a head start on that kind of weed control. As the new lawn grass starts to spread, it has a good chance of stopping the crabgrass, and with any luck it won’t develop at all.
Start applying the Spring fertilizer at the earliest possible time. This will help give the young shoots a good start and, if you use fertilizer that also controls weeds, you may solve two problems in one go.
As that snow continues to melt off there will be areas where the grass has become thatched – this is a condition in which the blades get lain over one another, then compressed from the snow pack on top. Some of these may die over the winter and this can leave you with a kind of straw-like covering, hence the name 'thatch'.
Doing something about this is easy. Just cut the grass a little later in Fall than you need to so that the length is controlled. This restricts the height and helps keep thatching to a minimum.
In Spring give the grass a good raking. Of course, if you raked in the Fall, there won't be any leaves to get rid of but the extra raking helps pull up thatched areas and allows air to get to the soil.
If the ground has become hard, or the soil is easily compacted, you can follow that up with an aeration. This can be done either by using a special attachment on a riding lawnmower and running it over the grass, or using special large-drum rollers with spikes poking out.
An inexpensive way is to use special shoes which are like golf shoes with spikes on the bottom. You just put them on then walk around the area you want to aerate. The tiny holes made by the shoes allow air to penetrate the soil more easily. At the same time, it makes channels for solid fertilizer pellets to fall into.
After de-thatching and aerating, your lawn will be ready for you to carry out any weed control and to start seeding, fertilizer application and regular mowing.
Lawn care may not be easy but it is worthwhile.
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Lee Dobbins writes for Backyard Garden and Patio where you can learn more about gardening and lawn care. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lee_Dobbins |