It's been very dry. If you haven't been watering, it may be a good idea to give your lawn a couple deep (1 inch of water) waterings here this week and next.
Aeration and Seeding Season Prices
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Core Aerations Starting at $200
Single Pass Aeration and Seedings Starting at $360
*$60 per thousand sq ft over 6,000 sq ft lawn
Seed Prices for DIY
5 pound bag(covers 1,000 sq. ft.) - $50
25 pound bag(covers 5,000 sq. ft.) - $175
50 pound bag(covers 10,000 sq. ft.) - $325
We will require a waiver for fiberoptic lines, irrigation heads, invisible fences, etc buried in the lawn. We will notify you before we are coming out to give you a heads up to get 811, your irrigation company, invisible fence company, or yourself out to mark these things.
The Science Behind Our Strategy
We aerate the lawns in Indiana during the Fall. We have cool season grasses here and they have a life cycle pattern. The Fall is when the turf begins to send its energy to the root system, developing it through the fall and into the following Spring. Once Spring rolls around, the plant will begin to send the vast majority of its energy to the blade, depleting the stored energy from the Fall. This is why we mow so frequently in the Spring.
Core aeration removes small plugs from the ground providing small avenues in the soil profile for the soil to move around. This helps create macropores and allow for water, oxygen, and nutrient movement in the soil. We have clay soils in this area and this helps break up the compaction of the clay. Over time we then build the root system and create more organic matter, developing the lawn.
Fall is the best time to overseed a lawn after aeration. The seed will wash into the holes and develop from there. When seed germinates in the Fall it will establish a root system in the current year and then be in place to store energy over the Winter, develop blade growth in the Spring and be a mature plant by the following Summer. By being a mature plant before Summer it can survive the heat stress of the Summer. Cool season grasses do not like the Summer. If you plant in the Spring the plant will take all Spring to germinate and still be immature in the early Summer. It will have an immature root system and be much more susceptible to disease and dying in the Summer.