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Monday, June 3. 2013

Core aeration for your lawn

A lawn appreciates being plugged annually, spring or fall. This fellow omits one of the reasons to do it, which is the compacting of even good topsoil by people, dogs, lawnmowers, wheelbarrows, etc. Earthworms do a good enough job of this in a meadow, but not in a lawn. You can rent a plugger for a day quite cheaply.


It's easy to forget that lawns are not natural. They are, in fact, grass gardens.




Posted by The Barrister in Gardens, Plants, etc., Our Essays at 13:15 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Aeration just encourages grass to grow faster. Avoid it.
#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2013-06-03 13:35 (Reply)
Yes - I agree. Much better to just leave it as nature intended.
#1.1 Tom Francis on 2013-06-03 17:30 (Reply)
As far as I'm concerned, if it can't survive on it's own I'm not going to care for it.
#2 JLawson on 2013-06-03 14:03 (Reply)
Indeed. Survival of the fittest and all that.
#2.1 Tom Francis on 2013-06-03 17:31 (Reply)
If the plugs just melt back into the lawn, what really was accomplished? I had a very clay-ey soil at the house in which I lived several years ago and thought it might make some difference if I had the aeration done and then put down organic fert and sand in the hopes that it would cut the heaviness. Didn't live there long enough to see if I were on the right path.
#3 BlogDog on 2013-06-03 15:25 (Reply)
I started mulching all the leaves into the yard last fall along with aerating. Had the best lawn in the 10 years I've lived here. Soil is hard packed clay but is getting better with annual plugging and mulching.
#4 phil g on 2013-06-03 16:46 (Reply)
Yes, it works. Top-dressing, plugging, all that.
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2013-06-03 17:32 (Reply)
Help my grass grow? I accidently sprayed some RoundUp on a spot. I soaked immediately with the hose so not much damage. But I think I made i t mad.
#5 JKB on 2013-06-03 22:00 (Reply)
You either got it in time or you didn't. If you didn't, and it dies, put a stepping stone/birdbath.... over the spot until next year, then till and re-seed/re-sod. Been using (and abusing) Roundup since it came out, and what it kills stays killed.
#5.1 BillH on 2013-06-04 11:08 (Reply)

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