subject: Professional Lawn Fertilizing Can Help The Homeowner [print this page] A lot of a homeowner time can be taken up by lawn care and maintenance. This may be time that could be better spent elsewhere and some other options may need to be explored. A professional lawn fertilizing and aerating service can save the homeowner time and money along with freeing them up for things that are more important, like lounging around on the porch in the shade.
Aerating and fertilizing a lawn are necessary processes that are not extremely complicated but can result in problems if not done correctly. Both involve the use of equipment and fertilizing adds the issue of purchasing the right type of product. If done incorrectly, aerating will prove ineffective and fertilizing can actually kill the lawn.
Proper aeration can only be accomplished with the right equipment and the average homeowner does not have this laying around their shed or garage. The aeration equipment actually removes plugs from the ground to allow water and fertilizer to penetrate into the soil. This allows the grass to be fed properly and gives it the room it needs to expand and grow in.
Thatch removal is also a benefit of lawn aeration, by opening the ground up to nutrients from the sun and allowing water to reach otherwise blocked root access. Thatch is one of the most devastating things that can happen to a lawn. It can hide harmful bugs and slowly choke the life from the heartiest of lawns.
Fertilizing provides the lawn with nutrients necessary for grass growth. The grass obtains many essential nutrients from the air and soil, but fertilizing supplements these with other nutrients that are otherwise unavailable. Professional lawn care services conduct tests to determine the nutrients that a lawn is lacking and then incorporate these into the regular fertilizer applications.
A professional lawn service should be consulted at least once even if it is just to determine what is needed for proper lawn maintenance and add it in. The aeration really should be done by them rather than the homeowner attempting without proper training or equipment. Lawn fertilizing can be accomplished by the homeowner, but the professional service can ensure with frequent testing that the lawn gets what it needs over the course of time.
