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Professional Lawn Aeration Service
Improve your lawn's health with professional aeration. We'll perforate the soil to allow air, water, and nutrients to reach grass roots. Spring and fall aeration available.
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Early fall is the best window for cool-season grass — soil is still warm, weed pressure is falling, and new seed has two growing seasons before summer heat. Warm-season lawns aerate best in late spring.
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If a screwdriver will not push into moist soil with light hand pressure, the soil is compacted. Heavy foot traffic, clay soil, water pooling after rain, and a thatch layer thicker than half an inch are the other reliable signals.
Yes — this is the single best time to seed. The open cores put seed in direct soil contact, which is what germination actually requires. Seeding onto un-aerated turf wastes most of the bag.
Leave them. They break down within a couple of weeks and return soil microbes and organic matter to the surface. Raking them up removes the part of the process that improves your soil.
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