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Where do you find perfectly manicured turf that makes you green with envy?

Where do you find perfectly manicured turf that makes you green with envy? 

Think of the lush fairways and greens of your local golf course. These areas stay vibrant all season thanks to core aeration, a crucial part of any lawn care plan. Just like golf courses, your lawn benefits from this practice. Core aeration opens the pores of compacted soils and reduces unhealthy thatch buildup, ensuring nutrients, water, and air reach the roots. Healthy roots mean a lush, green lawn. By including core aeration in your lawn care, your irrigation and fertilizer investments go further. You’ll also save on water bills, as rainfall penetrates deeper, reducing the need for watering. It’s a smart, effective practice for a vibrant lawn. Maximum performance! Less watering! Smart decision!

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Aeration is the process of making finger-sized holes in your lawn and depositing the removed material on the surface to break down. This reduces compaction, extends the life of your lawn, and allows fertilizer, water, and oxygen to get to the roots where they are needed most.

All soil in Calgary is clay based. Clay based soils, heavy traffic, more than one inch of thatch, standing water after a rainfall, or lawns that brown easily in heat should be aerated regularly. Aeration should be part of your regular cultural practices if you wish to maintain and encourage a healthy lawn.

Aeration should be performed in spring or early summer for best results. This helps the lawn to develop more extensive roots before the summer heat and stresses in July and August. This will also help the lawn to take fuller advantage of any rain that does fall in these months. Aeration should never be done during the months of July or August.

Manitoba lawns have high clay content. As a result, compaction and thatch build up is more of a problem. Aeration should be performed once each year to maintain healthy turf.

This depends on the condition of your lawn. Your visual results may or may not be immediate from a single aeration. Subterranean root growth and overall health and stress tolerance will however begin to improve almost at once. Even in the toughest conditions aeration in combination with an effective fertilizer and weed control program will show dramatic visual results in the second year after a second aeration.

Yes. Healthy grass will grow faster and thicker. If you hate to mow lush green grass, aeration, fertilizing and watering are counterproductive.

No. Aeration needs to be a continual part of your lawn care plan just like fertilizing, weed and pest control, irrigation and mowing. In some cases aeration can be reduced from once a year to once every two years.

Generally, cores every 4″-6″ and from 2″ deep will give best results. It is commonly accepted that the deeper and closer together the better. The cores left in the yard will usually be about 5/8″ diameter. Penetration depends on soil type, soil moisture, tine diameter, and the weight and power of the aerator. Clay soils are more difficult to penetrate.

The plugs will break down and dissolve within about two weeks, depending on the weather, soil conditions, watering, and mowing frequency. This process will add nutrients to the lawn. Raking up the cores reduces aeration effectiveness.

No. During this time, the grass growth is less active and aeration could increase the invasion of weeds and possibly increase the rate of water evaporation.

Yes. The aerator weighs 200lbs. or more. You must flag all items in the yard to avoid damage that the tines could cause by a direct impact.

Aeration will maximize the potential of every fertilizer and weed control application throughout the year and into next year as well. Your spring application of fertilizer is very high in Nitrogen and will already be providing your lawn with the most impressive green-up possible. However, the spring application of fertilizer contains very little Potassium. Potassium is a nutrient that specifically encourages root growth. Your summer fertilizer treatments will contain slightly higher levels of this nutrient, therefore, it is more important that your summer treatments follow the aeration in order to assist those root building nutrients to more easily reach the roots.

No. The same amount of fertilizer will give quicker and more long lasting results as it will get to the roots where real health occurs. Should I water after aeration? Yes. Water helps to break down the cores left in the yard and is particularly effective on the newly exposed root system.

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All BAM! Green Lawn Care programs are guaranteed to improve the health and appearance of your lawn and eliminate broadleaf weeds. If your broadleaf weeds are not completely eliminated within 14 days of your second visit, we will gladly perform an additional weed control application at no extra cost. If you are not satisfied with the results we will cheerfully refund 110% of your remaining applications.

*This guarantee does not apply to weeds growing in other areas of your property outside of your lawn, or areas that are not being regularly mowed. This guarantee is not applicable to ground covers such as Creeping Charlie, Creeping Bellflower, or Yarrow. For advice on how to deal with these ground covers and non-broadleaf weeds, please contact our office and we would be happy to work with you do eliminate this problem. This guarantee is also void where proper cultural practices are not being followed or performed, or if the program is delayed by the customer.

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