If your soil is compacted, it will make it difficult for your lawn in Colorado to reach its full potential. Thankfully, there is a solution: core aeration! Core aeration is the process of removing small plugs of soil from your lawn. This helps relieve soil compaction and reduces thatch buildup as well. As your soil begins to loosen, nutrients and other resources can then reach the roots of your grass more easily. For the best results, however, avoid aerating your lawn during the winter and summer. Instead, aerate it twice per year, once in the spring and once in the fall, when your lawn is at its strongest!

Core aeration relieves soil compaction and reduces thatch buildup.

Soil compaction and thatch buildup negatively affect your lawn and should be corrected quickly. When soil is compacted, the roots struggle to absorb nutrients, sunlight, oxygen, and water. Thatch buildup can prevent the roots from absorbing resources and nutrients as well, but also reduces the effectiveness of pesticides or fertilizer by restricting their movement, which can negatively affect lawn health. Core aeration is a great way to remedy these problems. The process includes pulling 1 to 3-inch plugs of soil from the ground using a machine. The removal of the plugs helps to reduce soil compaction and thatch build-up, by loosening the soil. Ultimately, this helps encourage a healthier lawn overall.

Aerating your lawn makes it easier for nutrients and other resources to reach the roots of your grass.

Tiny holes in a lawn in Grand Junction, CO, from the aeration process.

Compacted soil is difficult to pierce, making it especially difficult for water, oxygen, sunlight, and nutrients to penetrate it and make it down to the roots. When your lawn can't receive nutrients and other essential resources, it can start to lose its green color and its health will weaken. That's where core aeration comes in! When the soil cores are removed from the ground, it will create channels that essential nutrients and resources can use to reach the roots of your grass. With improved access to everything it needs, your grass will be able to grow stronger, greener, and healthier!

When should core aeration be performed?

Aerating your lawn at the right times will yield the best results. Your lawn will need to be at its strongest when you aerate it so that it will be able to endure this invasive process. Here in Colorado, you should have your lawn core aerated twice per year, once in the spring and once in the fall. These are optimal times to aerate because your cool-season lawn will be at its strongest. Cool-season grass thrives when the weather is cooler, and will be best equipped to handle the stress of aeration and recover quickly.

Aeration should be avoided during the winter or summer when these harsh months place additional stress on your lawn.

Reach out to us today to schedule our core aeration service.

If you want your lawn to absorb nutrients and essential resources more easily, then you'll want to take advantage of our core aeration service! We offer this service in the spring and fall, and we recommend you schedule it during both seasons to help ensure your soil never becomes too compacted and so that nutrients and other resources are always able to reach the roots of your grass. For our fall aeration service, we encourage you to pair it with our overseeding and slit seeding services to increase the density of your turf and fill in any bare or patchy areas with new growth.

We offer this service to property owners in Grand Junction, Fruita, Palisade, and other nearby areas in Colorado. Give us a call today at (970) 434-5440 to sign up.