Use a Hand Lawn Aerator For a Healthy Lawn

There are three main types of hand lawnprongs should be sufficient. The best hand held
aerators. There are rotating spike aerators, stakeaerators will have a foot handle for you to push
aerators, and manual core aerators. A spikethe aerator into the lawn giving you more
aerator does not work as well as the other twoleverage with your body weight. Given that extra
types of aerators since the holes made by themweight, you should to produce decent cores that
are fairly small, and not too deep. However, theywill last a long time. To lengthen the effect of
work well in soils that do not have too much clayaerating, you can add peat moss and gypsum
in them, but have a lot of thatch buildup. Core andjust after aeration to your lawn. In clay soils, core
stake aerators are great for clay soils. Overtimeaerators are better than a hand spike aerator.
they strengthen roots to create healthy lawns.A lawn expert at the University of Georgia, Dr.
Hand aerators are best when used in hard toRobert Carrow compared the effectiveness of
reach areas of the lawn, small yellow spots, ordifferent lawn aerators. He found that while spike
for lawns that are very little. Often even peopleaerators had little effect, core and plug aerators
who regularly hire professionals to aerate will haveenabled deeper rooting and water extraction of
a hand aerator to get the corners, go overthe grass by 25%. A spike aerator has the most
troubled areas of the lawn, and do small toucheffect in a lawn with little clay content. A manual
ups. Keep in mind that manual lawn aerators areplug and core aerator works similar to mechanical
for touch ups and small areas. Aerating a largelawn aerators. Both take cores of soil from the
lawn by hand will take several days and will not belawn which helps the grass roots to develop and
worth your time since usually you can hire adeepen allowing them to find more access to
professional to do it for only $50 to $100.water and other minerals & nutrients
The best manual aerators are core aerators, twoessential to a healthy lawn.