What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're actually going to be talking about

Lawns. It's something I don't usually talk about. I don't have one although I have had one in other places that I've lived in and so you know sometimes the lawn is just

absolutely unavoidable or you already have a lot of garden space and you actually do want

a little bit of lawn in your yard. So when you're thinking about lawn care, you've got fertilizing,

mowing, edging, all of the standard chores that we probably all grew up doing. But what about aeration

or dethatching? These are less common practices that are absolutely

vital to proper lawn care. And so today what we're going to do is we'll talk about aeration

specifically. We'll talk about why it's actually important to do is we'll talk about aeration specifically. We'll talk about why it's

actually important to do and which lawn aeration products are some of the better

ones on the market. So first of all, what is aeration? So let's understand

aeration before we get into how to actually do it.

Lawns are notorious for becoming compacted over time because we grow them to have something

nice to step on in our yard.

Typically, we would never step on, let's say, our raised bed garden, right?

However, we will run, jump, play, roll all over our lawn.

So the dense matting of grass, as well as constant foot traffic traffic will cause your soil to become super dense and make it harder for air, nutrients and water to reach the roots of your lawn.

It's very similar to how most plants would respond to compacted soil.

So aeration is one way to solve the problem.

By punching little holes into the soil,

you're giving your roots access to essential resources that they need, water, air, and better access to nutrition.

So if you're researching lawn aeration, chances are pretty good you've come across the term

dethatching as well, But in order to know what

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