Lawn aeration allows your lawn to thrive and make a lasting difference in the quality of your yard. Several circumstances can take a toll on your residential property, from changing seasons to neglecting your lawn's maintenance. Fortunately, the lawn care experts at Lawn Pride® provide professional lawn aeration throughout the United States to help you keep your property looking lush, healthy, and beautiful.
Contact your local Lawn Pride today to learn more about how our lawn aeration service can help keep your yard looking its best year round!
What Is Lawn Aeration?
Lawn aeration is a process that removes many small plugs throughout your lawn, at about 20-40 per square foot. The plugs are two to three inches long and roughly a half-inch across, consisting of soil, grass roots, and thatch. The primary purpose of lawn aeration is to alleviate compacted soil. When the soil is compacted, it is more difficult for the roots to grow through it. The soil struggles to absorb and retain the water, oxygen, and nutrients your lawn depends on. In addition to loosening up the soil, aeration improves the flow of oxygen, water, and nutrients to the roots and soil microbes essential to your lawn’s health.
If you live in a region with a high amount of clay in the soil, soil compaction can be an issue with your residential lawn. Professional lawn aeration services can help eliminate problems related to soil compaction, allowing properties to thrive beautifully. The best time to aerate lawns is typically in the spring, fall, or both, depending on your lawn care maintenance needs. Lawn Pride can inspect your property and give you recommendations for a proper lawn aerating schedule.

Signs Your Lawn Needs Aeration
Don’t wait until your lawn is struggling before aerating your grass. Heavy clay soils should generally be aerated twice a year, with annual lawn aeration for sandy soil. You’ll notice the following signs when your lawn needs aeration:
- Visible thatch build-up
- Heavy clay soils
- Puddle formation on your lawn
- Thinning grass
- Yellow or brown patches
- Water runs off the grass rather than being absorbed
- Grass grows slowly or poorly
If inserting the blade of a screwdriver into your lawn is difficult, it is a clear sign the lawn needs aeration.
What Are the Benefits of Lawn Aeration?
Some of the key benefits of professional lawn aeration services provided by the experts at Lawn Pride include:
- Encourages healthier and stronger grass roots
- Allows the soil and roots to access water and air
- Helps break up compacted, dense soil
- Improves fertilization
- Prevents mushroom growth
- Provides insect resistance
- Improves drought resistance
- Encourages new grass growth
What to Expect During Our Aeration Service
Before we aerate your lawn, please mark any hidden sprinkler heads or invisible fencing using stakes or flags. Mow the grass and water lightly about 24 hours beforehand. Then, our service professional will use a lawn aerator that digs deep into the grass, pulling up nickel-sized plugs of soil, root, thatch, and grass. These plugs will be left in place so the essential nutrients and microorganisms in each plug can return to the soil below.
Completing your aeration service is the best time to overseed your lawn, which helps fill bare spots and makes the grass fuller and more lush.
Why Choose Us?
Homeowners across the U.S. rely on us for their lawn care because we’re committed to delivering the highest quality services every time we visit your property. You know you’ll be pleased with our work because the Neighborly Done Right Promise® backs everything we do.
Our professional lawn care services ensure your yard is kept healthy, looks beautiful, and becomes the envy of your neighborhood. We know every lawn is different, so we work closely with you to ensure our services are tailored to your needs, preferences, and budget.
We’re happy to answer questions about our lawn aerating service and how we work hard to maintain your lawn. In addition, we’re proud to offer lawn care maintenance programs to make it easy for property owners to benefit from our services at any of our locations.
Call on Lawn Pride for Aeration Services
When you need professional lawn aeration and lawn overseeding services, there’s only one lawn care company you need to call. With more than 40 years of experience, the professionals at Lawn Pride are fully equipped to deliver effective, reliable lawn care services. We're highly knowledgeable about your yard's soil, weeds, grasses, and pests, allowing us to cultivate a stunning residential property.
Contact us today to get your free estimate. Let’s make yours a lawn you’ll be proud of!
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Our specialists deliver the level of lawn care you need and deserve. We're preferred providers of Chattanooga lawn care, distinguished by our commitment to ensuring our customers understand our processes and are thrilled with the results. You can count on Lawn Pride to provide exceptional customer care as we develop a lawn that makes you proud. Lawn Pride of Chattanooga provides lawn care services for the following cities:
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