Timeline for What immediate steps should I take after my lawn is aerated?
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| Nov 30, 2016 at 21:44 | comment | added | stormy | I HAD to learn how to make and care for lawns. It was my job. Purist is not a category. I wouldn't do a thing over and above what is necessary. Purists are those that know nothing yet try everything so they have a beautiful law. Not a healthy, beautiful lawn just a green one. High maintenance and expensive maintenance if one doesn't truly know the facts about how to grow lawns of cool season grasses. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 21:40 | comment | added | stormy | sborsher...how is the state of your lawn? I have to say although a few of your ideas are complimentary to the growth of lawns that you aren't truly understanding the whats and whyfors. Aeration is critical once per year if not more on grasses that are abused by traffic. How are you FEEDING your worms. Enticing them to live and breed in the soil of your lawn? Does your aerator PULL PLUGS from the lawn or just punch holes? Raking up cores just shows ignorance about this amazing beast called a lawn. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 21:36 | comment | added | stormy | Those birds eat the seeds of this anemic green grass and poop them out on all of the beautiful, dark green grasses of the lawns all around the golf course. Ruining the crops of the rich people who don't know a thing about grasses and lawns. If they fill those holes with sand they need to go get educated again about perpetuating a healthy soil bed for their grasses. J. Musser is correct!! The only thing to 'fill' these holes with or top dress the crop of grass is decomposed organic matter. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 21:30 | comment | added | stormy | grass is far more hardy than that TreeNinja, grass can survive on hard packed soil as well as pure gravel. This dude about the golf course sand stuff has just been put in his place by my golfer (very proficient) husband. He just said THEY LEAVE THE CORES ON THE SURFACE THEY DON'T ADD SAND. Golf course maintenance depends on who is in charge. Cutting cool season grasses down below 3" is stupid. Some golf courses hire people that know what they are doing others not so much!! They usually use Poa annua a weed grass that has shallow roots and does fine mowed short. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | stormy | The primary function of aeration by pulling plugs of soil out of the lawn is AERATION. To get air to the decomposers to decompose the not decomposed organic matter, clippings and to get air into the soil for the roots of the grass and other critical biologicals. Sand does NOTHING. Micro organisms come up to eat decomposed organic matter not sand, they take their dinner back down into the soil profile and POOP it out mixing organic matter into the soil the good old fashioned way not needing any energy from the human. The ONLY WAY to improve ANY soil is adding decomposed organic matter. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 13:20 | comment | added | treeNinja | I have never heard of adding sand, the ground is so hard I doubt grass roots will be able to get into the ground. | |
| Sep 15, 2014 at 23:29 | comment | added | J. Musser | Why would you fill the holes with sand? That's really not a great idea. It's best to keep the soil native, if something is to be added, compost will be better than sand. | |
| Sep 15, 2014 at 20:54 | history | answered | sborsher | CC BY-SA 3.0 |