Aerator shoes are designed to prepare your lawn for fertilizing, weeding and seeding during fall lawn care. Over the summer and fall, grass roots can become compacted. Even a quarter-inch below the ...

If your lawn is looking brown or patchy despite your best efforts to care for it, your soil might be compacted and need aerating. Manual lawn aerators make holes in the soil to allow air, water, and ...

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Aerating a lawn is one of the many tasks that can improve the health of your grass. Spring and fall are ideal times to aerate your lawn so that oxygen, water, and fertilizer can penetrate deeply into ...

Do you have a lot of weeds in your lawn? Any areas of thin or dead grass? Does your yard just look stressed overall? These could all be symptoms of a common problem: soil compaction. “Soil compaction ...

Lawn aerating involves perforating your lawn with many small holes, breaking up heavily compacted soil so water, nutrients and oxygen can better reach the roots. This lawn care process improves ...