While soil compaction is a natural process, it also hinders your lawn's vitality, preventing it from absorbing the nutrients and resources it needs to flourish. Fortunately, there's a solution - core aeration! This process involves pulling up plugs of soil using an aerator to reduce compaction, allowing your lawn to absorb essential nutrients and maintain its healthy, vibrant appearance. Performing core aeration once a year can yield noticeable results, but for optimal impact, twice is the way to go. Spring and fall are the best times to aerate in Florida, as your lawn can endure the process and recover quickly.

The Core Aeration Process & How It Benefits Your Lawn

Compacted soil is a natural occurrence, but it significantly hampers your lawn's ability to absorb essential resources and nutrients. This is where a core aeration service proves invaluable for your lawn! Core aeration is the process of pulling up plugs of soil using an aerator. This creates tiny holes in the ground that loosen compaction and create passageways for nutrients to reach the roots. This method aids in the creation of a healthier and more appealing lawn.

Additionally, core aeration enhances water and air penetration in your lawn, promoting root development and revitalizing the turf. It is also highly effective in breaking up the thatch layer. It's typical to leave the soil cores on your lawn after aeration because, as they decompose, they return nutrients to the soil.

Double pass aeration is ideal for extracting twice the amount of soil cores, resulting in an even better outcome for your lawn!

Maximize your lawn's health by core aerating your lawn biannually.

Pile of aeration cores after a service in New Smyrna Beach, FL.

For optimal lawn health, core aeration should be performed at least once a year. However, to achieve even better results, consider aerating your lawn twice a year. This approach allows for more frequent alleviation of soil compaction, promoting enhanced water and nutrient absorption, improved root development, and overall lawn vigor. By aerating twice annually, you can maintain a healthier, more vibrant lawn throughout the year.

The optimal time to perform core aeration is the spring and fall seasons.

While core aeration is highly beneficial for your lawn, performing it at the right time is crucial for ensuring it can endure the process and bounce back swiftly. Core aeration is most effective when carried out during the spring and fall seasons. In the spring, typically from March to May, aeration is beneficial as temperatures are moderate and the grass is under less stress. It'll also get it in good shape before the hot summer months. Fall, specifically from September to November, is another ideal window for aeration. During this time, temperatures are cooling down, relieving the stress of summer heat on the grass. This allows the grass to withstand aeration and prepare for winter dormancy, ensuring a quicker recovery and a healthier start the following spring.

Contact us today to schedule our core aeration service to boast a healthy, lush lawn!

At Leafy Landscapes, we strive to make sure your lawn is the healthiest it can be all year round with our core aeration service. Our team will use an aerator to pull up plugs of soil, creating small holes in the surface that serve as passageways for nutrients to reach the roots of your grass. We even go the extra mile and pass over your lawn twice to pull up double the soil cores and produce double the benefits! We offer this service in the spring, from March until May, and in the fall, between September and November, to ensure we do it at the right time for your lawn.

Our core aeration service is available to residential properties in New Smyrna Beach, Port Orange, Ponce Inlet, FL, and nearby neighborhoods. Give us a call at (386) 492-8862 today to schedule!