Aeration and Overseeding

Aerating is one of the best things that you can do for your lawn to keep it healthy. By breaking up soil compaction, aeration gives your lawn much-needed oxygen and water to your lawn’s root system. This produces a thicker, healthier lawn. We’re here to provide an easy and efficient annual aeration service so that your turf gets the nutrients it needs, and you get a healthier, better-looking lawn.

Aeration

Because lawns need air, water, and food to grow, pulling plugs throughout the yard will help promote optimal grass growth. Our hydraulic core aerators pull small plugs from the soil and drop the plugs back onto the ground. These new holes break up the thatch layer and allow fresh air, water, and nutrients to easily penetrate the surface and reach deep down into the grassroots. This helps your grass grow deeper and stronger, which makes it thicker and healthier. Plugs that are dropped back onto the ground break down over time, supplying the lawn with more nutrients. Traditionally, aerating in the fall is recommended, as the aeration opens up the root zone, promoting new root growth and does not damage the pre-emergent layer that may have been applied in the spring, as a spring aeration would.

Aeration with Overseeding

Reseeding your lawn is an important step in proper lawn care maintenance. Just like all living things, your grass will not live forever. Most turf grasses that will produce seed, won’t produce viable seed until it is about twelve inches high. This is a problem for lawns that are mowed regularly. Reseeding your lawn also helps keep weeds out of your yard. Because weeds can only grow where there is room; you naturally can keep weeds at bay by lessening the opportunity for them to grow.  With Lawn Pride’s Premium Turf Type Tall Fescue grass seed, you will have a stronger, more resilient lawn that is best for our Central Indiana environment. At Lawn Pride, we recommend having your lawn aerating and overseeding in the fall. Not only does the aeration opens up the root zone, promoting new root growth, but when aerating and overseeding in the spring means your newly seeded lawn would not be able to be treated for grassy weeds or broadleaf weeds leaving your new grass to compete for room to grow.

Knowledgeable Staff

Our experienced and knowledgeable staff can answer any of your lawn care questions and provide you with helpful tips so that together we can make your lawn look its best.