Lawn de-thatching services are being offered more and more by lawn care professionals as homeowners become more aware of how detrimental thatch can be to their lawns and are looking for a reasonable cost solution.

Thatch can be a big problem for lawns. It is a tangled mass of living and dead organic matter consisting of roots, stems, and shoots that make it hard for water, air, and fertilizer nutrients to enter the soil and provide nourishment to your grass roots. If the thatch is not too deep, it's probably not much of a problem. But thatching grows worse over time, not better. so it's best to deal with the problem earlier rather than later.

If not taken care of, thatching can lead to the death of your lawn is a number of ways. It can cause drought stress, by creating runoffs and preventing water from seeping into the ground. The grass and plants will gradually die due to dehydration. Thatching can cause starvation, by preventing fertilizers and other nutrients from reaching the grass roots. And it can cause suffocation, as the layers of thatching become so dense that air cannot enter into the ground.

One excellent solution for thatching lawn is core aeration which simply involves poking lots of finger sized holes into your lawn and soil and making it porous enough so air, water, and nutrients can reach the roots. Usually this is done in the fall, just after the summer growing season, or in the spring - just prior to the growing season.

Core aeration is something that you can do yourself, with the right equipment such as an aerifier, aerator, or lawn dethacher. But with lawn companies offering their core aeration services at reasonable rates, it's probably worth your while to get the best quote and have them do it instead.

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