It is similar to core aeration only in core aeration sections of grass are physically removed from your lawn. Liquid aeration is a liquid solution that helps loosen up soil so water and nutrients can penetrate deeper into the soil. Liquid AerationĬhances are you’ve heard of core aeration, but you may not have heard of liquid aeration. Check out more on top dressing your lawn here: Top Dressing Lawn: Benefits and Advice. If you have a warm season lawn then you shouldn’t need to seed since most warm season lawns spread via rhizomes and/or stolon’s and will naturally fill in. If you have a cool season lawn, then after top dressing, take the next step and apply a starter fertilizer and a light seeding with a quality seed (more on seed below). This is the best way to introduce a ton of organic matter into your soil. The compost also gets raked all over the surface of your lawn about a 1/4” thick. The voids that are left over after core aerating get filled with compost. If you are only going to take two steps to fix your clay problems, then choose core aeration and top dressing. Core aeration combined with top dressing with compost is by far the best two things you can do to improve clay soil problems in an existing lawn. Top Dressing With CompostĪfter core aerating, top dress your lawn with compost. After core aerating continue by using the soil amendment strategies below. It’s simply the first step you have to take before you can get organic matter and soil amendments into your soil. Most equipment rental places have these machines available for rent.Ĭore aerating is where this process begins, although, by itself it won’t do much to solve your compacted soil problem. A core aerator is a machine that pulls cores, several inches long, out of your lawn. If you’re trying to improve clay soil in an existing lawn then Core Aerating is definitely where you need to start. The only way to prevent your grass growing in clay from ultimately dying is to improve the clay soil using a combination of these methods: 1. Poor drainage lawns can drown grass roots and prevent nutrient intake.
This makes clay very dense which is why clay lawns are poor drainage lawns. Of the three particle sizes, sand, silt, and clay, the smallest is clay.
It may take several repeat efforts to build soil structure that is a healthy mix of sand, silt, clay, minerals, and organic matter that make up the ideal soil, or ‘loam’, for growing a healthy lawn. If you’re serious about improving your clay soil then you need to use most of, if not all of these methods. These methods include adding organics and soil conditioners as well as mechanical methods such as core aerating and top dressing. Growing grass in clay soil can be done if you use a variety of methods to improve the clay soil. You can grow grass in clay soil if you use these methods to improve soil drainage and overall soil health.
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