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If your lawn is looking brown or patchy despite your best efforts to care for it, your soil might be compacted and need aerating. Manual lawn aerators make holes in the soil to allow air, water, and ...

Tacking more chores onto your spring to-do list might not sound fun, but this one task will make aeration more effective and ...

Lawn aeration improves the appearance and health of a lawn by reducing soil compaction and promoting air, water, and fertilizer access to the roots. Lawn aeration also breaks up thatch. Lawn aeration ...

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Your lawn needs water and other nutrients to keep it looking lush. Unfortunately, when soil becomes compacted, water and air cannot reach the lower layers of the soil. In that situation, any nutrient ...