Ever wondered why your neighbor's lawn is much healthier and greener than yours? Perhaps they have an expert gardener taking care of their lawn or they have a secret formula that enhances the growth and health of the grass in their lawn. No matter what the reason may be, basically a beautiful and healthy lawn is the result of proper care and nourishment of your lawn. Aside from watering our lawn in order to keep it healthy, aeration is the other way of keeping our grass healthy.

Water is what our grass need as their basic food in order to grow healthy and stronger. A thoroughly watered lawn will eventually result into a green and luscious one as it helps in improving the health of the root thus making it stronger and healthier.

Aerating your lawn is done in order to encourage the growth of the grass by creating oxygen flow to the soil thus killing weeds. Most of the time, aeration is done during the fall which is done to promote the growth of newly sown grass by allowing air and water to freely flow inside the holes. This also helps the grass to fully absorb the nutrients it needs in order to grow healthy. The new grass blades benefits a lot from aeration as their growth is enhanced a lot by the free flowing of air in the soil thus improving the quality of the grass in your lawn.

The proper time to aerate your lawn is when the soil is hard and punching a hole is somehow hard to do. You can use your pitchfork to poke the soil or you can use an aerator to make the process much easier. If you don't have an aerator you can rent them through your local garden stores as you will only be aerating once or twice a year. Be careful though when punching holes to the ground as to avoid hitting pipes to avoid causing problems. In order to be sure that you won't hit any of the pipes, marking their route is probably the best thing to do. Doing this ensures you end up improving the soil by giving it nutrients, oxygen, and worms. These three play an essential role in keeping your lawn healthy as nutrients and oxygen helps a lot in producing healthy grass while worms adds in the aeration process as they also make holes and soil movement and that you won't be hitting anything placed below unless you overlooked something. Make sure that you thoroughly made holes in all the spots of your lawn.

Always make sure every time you aerate that you followed the right depth required when poking holes to the ground. When aerating, make holes as deep as you can but make sure that they have a good spacing. Aerating lawns has many benefits that are important when maintaining your lawn. Although aeration is often deemed as a simple and one or twice a month activity, it includes some of the most important benefits every gardener should know.