Aerating your lawn helps it breathe and grow stronger by opening the soil so water and nutrients reach the roots. The best time to aerate is when your grass is actively growing—spring or fall in cool ...

Celeste Scott talks about easy to grow cut flowers, and Booker T. Leigh show how to aerate a lawn. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Horticulture Specialist ...

Join me for the first episode of Lawn Life Vlog as I tackle dethatching and aerating my lawn. Watch the process, learn some tips, and enjoy the fun behind keeping a healthy, beautiful lawn! #lawncare ...

Do you have a lot of weeds in your lawn? Any areas of thin or dead grass? Does your yard just look stressed overall? These could all be symptoms of a common problem: soil compaction. “Soil compaction ...

Dethatching is the process of removing thatch from the lawn. Thatch is a combination of organic and inorganic matter that builds up over the topmost layer of your grass. It generally consists of ...

Core aeration is an important maintenance task for maintaining a lawn and I prefer it over power raking. A power rake is a machine with rotating tines that mechanically lift and remove thatch, which ...

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