Why you should aerate and overseed your corporate turf this Fall!

The Benefits of Aeration:

Aeration creates?pores in the soil?that allow more air, water, and nutrients to reach deeper, which promotes healthy root growth. Additionally, aeration can help your grass thrive by:

They are helping to prevent the buildup of harmful elements and toxins?in the soil and root system.

It is protecting plants from diseases and pathogens?that are caused by poor aeration.

Increasing the?activity of beneficial microorganisms?in the soil that promotes plant health.

Preventing fertilizer and pesticides from running off?due to soil compaction.

Making?seeding more effective, allowing for better seed-to-soil contact and better germination & growth.

Overseeding:

Grass can survive for a few years, but fresh growth is still important to the overall look and feel of your lawn. Without fresh growth, large sections of your grass can die off all at once, leaving bare patches. Seeding encourages fresh growth of healthy grass, keeping your lawn thicker and healthier from year to year.

Benefits of overseeding your lawn include the following:

Helps fight insects and disease by growing stronger roots to stand against them.

Thickens the density of lawns to give them a softer feel.

Fills in areas of grass damaged by insects, disease, stress, and winter damage.

Improves the overall appearance of the lawn.

What is the best time to aerate a lawn?

The best time to aerate your lawn is before the grass reaching its apex of natural growth. The idea is to aerate in correlation with active growth of the grass. This will help it to recover more quickly. It will also help fill in those areas where the aerator equipment has exposed the soil underneath. To determine when to aerate, you must know whether your lawn has cool-season or warm-season grass. There are a whole host of things you can look for to determine whether your grass is cool-season or warm-season, but the simplest way to tell is:

Cool-season grass typically grows in the northern part of the United States. Cool-season grass tends to get greener quicker in the spring, and it stays greener longer into the fall. If your lawn contains cool-season grass, it’s best to perform aeration on it either early in the spring or early in the fall.?

Warm-season grass typically grows, you guessed it, in the southern parts of the United States. Warm-season grasses tend to take a longer time to get green in the spring, and they don’t stay as green as fall begins to set in. If your lawn contains warm-season grass, it’s best to perform aeration on it either late in spring or very early in the summer.?

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Paul Yahnke - TruGreen Commercial

Strategic and National Accounts Director

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