The One-Two Punch of Spring Lawn Care!

A significant impact the winter season has on your property is that it leads to the compaction of the soil of your lawn. Compaction is most likely to occur when there is a lot of foot traffic on your lawn, including pressure from snow during the winter months. 

This is bad for your lawn because when the soil becomes compacted, it solidifies into a spongey texture that blocks any nutrients from getting to your lawn’s soil roots. 

How do I free my lawn from compaction?

An aeration service! 

Getting this service done on your property during the beginning of the spring season will bring your lawn back to total health and help prep it for the upcoming spring and summer seasons! 

What is an aeration service?

An aeration service, also known as core aeration, is considered a lawn care treatment that improves the airflow, water, and recycling of nutrients to your soil and plants (grass). 

When you receive an aeration service, there will be leftover plugs of thatch and soil due to re-opening your lawn’s soil. 

When is the best time to get an aeration service for my property?

Like most lawn and landscaping services, aeration should be done at least twice a year but is recommended anytime your lawn is compacted! 

Since compaction occurs after your lawn has experienced a lot of foot traffic, the seasons in which an aeration service is usually done are spring and fall. This is done to free your lawn of compaction after the busy winter and summer seasons where your lawn has the most foot traffic! 

An aeration service is the only answer to a compacted lawn, so here are the signs of compaction: 

1. Water build-up in the lower sections of your lawn. 
2. A bouncy or spongy feel when you walk on your lawn. 
3. Patchy areas of grass.
4. Dirt is bare with no weeds. 
5. Soil is too hard that you can’t pierce it. (Even with a shovel)
6. Notice your trees have shallow roots. 

Are there benefits to receiving an aeration service?

Like most lawn and landscaping services, there are benefits when professionals provide the service. 

With aeration being a vital service for your lawn’s overall health and condition, professionals should definitely do it. Not only to relieve your lawn of compaction but to gain benefits such as: 

• Improvement of airflow to your roots. 
• Enhanced water flow to your roots.
• Limit the amount of water runoff on your property.
• Eliminate soil compaction.
• Stronger roots. 
• Improves the use and impact of fertilizer. 

Is there a next step to my lawn care process?

After you have freed your lawn’s soil of compaction, the next step in bringing your lawn back to health is an overseeding service. An overseeding service is always done AFTER an aeration service if your lawn is compacted! 

What is an overseeding service?

An overseeding service is a lawn care service that applies grass seed into your soil or turf without breaking it up. It is used to fill in the bare spots on your lawn and enhance your lawn’s color and health. 

When should I get an overseeding service done on my property?

An overseeding service is usually done after aeration, but that isn’t always the case. The service should be used when your lawn has bald spots, brown patches, and dead space. 

Since the service is used to re-invigorate your lawn and bring back its bright green color, it is commonly done at the beginning of spring and fall after your lawn has been used. 

Does an overseeding service have benefits?

Like an aeration service and all green industries services, it has benefits. But, again, the benefits are guaranteed when professionals do the service! 

Overseeding provides benefits such as: 

• Enhances the overall appearance and color of your grass.
• Helps prevent disease and insects.
• It makes your lawn less susceptible to weeds. 
• Thickens your pre-existing turf.
• Fills in bare spots and dead spaces on your lawn. 

When an overseeding service follows an aeration service, the overall benefits lead to a magnificent-looking lawn and landscape that you can fully enjoy! 

Aeration and overseeding service is the best one-two punch you can deliver in lawn care to fight against compaction and bring your lawn back to life! 

Are there ways to avoid compaction?

Compaction is extremely hard to avoid. Since its main reason for occurring is foot traffic, you would have to avoid having the pleasure of using your landscape to avoid it. 

Foot traffic is more than just walking on your lawn. Foot traffic can be:

1. Your children are playing in the yard.
2. Your dog is using your yard.
3. When you host an event or party, people use areas of your property for parking. 

The majority of foot traffic is unavoidable, which means so is compaction! 

What is the best way to use lawn care services?

Aeration and overseeding may be the one-two punch of lawn care, but “the punch” is only as good as the person throwing it! 

You will want the Ali, Frazier, or Tyson of the lawn care world to deliver your punches and guarantee a knockout! 

You always want to watch professional boxing, so you need to use the professionals for your lawn care. Using professionals ensures the services are done correctly, and you can receive the benefits that come with the service. 

Suppose you are a property owner in Muhlenberg County, KY, or surrounding areas. In that case, you can use the professionals at Perfection Lawn and Landscape to deliver your aeration and overseeding services and all your other lawn and landscape services this year! 

We are friendly and professional! So, call us today to get started!