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"Aeration allows the soil to breathe by breaking up compacted soil, [which] is particularly important in areas where soil ...

A greener, healthier yard doesn't always mean punching holes in the soil. There's an alternative aeration method that's easy to apply and gentler on your soil.

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Maintaining a healthy lawn is hard work, so it's understandable to look for easier, cheaper shortcuts when possible. But sometimes so-called "hacks" are way more trouble than they're worth. Lawn ...

If your lawn is looking brown or patchy despite your best efforts to care for it, your soil might be compacted and need aerating. Manual lawn aerators make holes in the soil to allow air, water, and ...

Aerator shoes are designed to prepare your lawn for fertilizing, weeding and seeding during fall lawn care. Over the summer and fall, grass roots can become compacted. Even a quarter-inch below the ...

Joellen Dimond discusses summer-blooming lilies and Booker T. Leigh shows how to aerate your lawn. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape ...