Lawn Aeration

4-Seasons Outdoors Lawn & Landscape offers a variety of services to repair or rejuvenate your lawn. In addition to our other services, we also offer core aeration and overseeding. We recommend aeration and overseeding once per season to all established lawns.

• Aeration is simply the removal of hundreds of small soil plugs from a lawn, to help break up soil compaction and improve root growth.
  • Core aeration will reduce soil compaction and enhance thatch breakdown, thus improving soil water uptake and decreasing water runoff and puddling.

  • Core aeration allows air, water, and fertilizer to better reach the root zone. This helps stimulate root growth to create healthier, stronger turf grass.

• Spring or Fall is the best time for aeration in Michigan.
  • March, April and May in the spring and September, October and November in the fall are the best months to plan for aeration.
  • Warm days and cool nights along with natural moisture provide ideal conditions.

  • Mid – Summer months tend to be too hot for aeration and can cause stress to the turf by depleting moisture.

• An application of fertilizer, along with heavy watering after the aeration will greatly stimulate the root growth.

  • Deep watering every two to three days for a couple of weeks after aeration will cause the roots to grow deeper for increased strength during dry times.

• Fall is the best time for overseeding because of the better establishment conditions with the cool, moist weather.
  • Good seed to soil contact is important. Seed that is watered into the holes created by the aeration will have a much higher germination rate than seed that is spread over a lawn which has not been aerated.
  • Overseeding with a blended bluegrass in the fall will make the lawn more disease resistant, more drought resistant, and more insect tolerant.