'Core' Benefits
This is the best season to core aerate cool-season lawns because warm soil and cooler air promote rapid root growth.
What is Late Summer and/or Fall?
Homeowners often choose this grass because it provides an attractive, dark green lawn while requiring less water and maintenance than many other cool-season grasses.
What is Turf Type Tall Fescue?
Warm soil temperatures during early fall help turf-type tall fescue do this more quickly.
What is germinate?
Sprinkler heads, invisible dog fences, shallow utilities, landscape lighting, and other hidden objects.
What is things homeowners need to flag?
This is the single most important thing a homeowner can do after overseeding to ensure successful germination.
What is keep the seed consistently moist?
This process creates more room for grass roots to grow by breaking up hard, dense soil
What is relieving soil compaction?
This benefit of turf type tall fescue makes a lawn better able to withstand active families, and pets without thinning out.
What is better traffic tolerance?
This environmental condition—common in late summer and early fall—helps newly seeded turf-type tall fescue establish rapidly.
What are warm soil temperatures?
This process of lining up the wheel of the aerator with the last tire mark ensures 100% coverage of the aeration area.
What is overlapping?
Instead of watering deeply once a week, newly seeded lawns benefit most from this watering approach.
What is light, frequent watering?
By opening channels in the soil, core aeration provides more of this essential element to grass roots.
What is oxygen?
This trait found in many modern turf-type tall fescue cultivars helps negate the need for fungicide applications.
What is improved disease resistance?
By establishing earlier, turf-type tall fescue is better prepared to handle this challenging season the following year.
What is heat and drought stress?
NaturaLawn of America's timeline procedure to give a customer a head's up they are scheduled for AOS?
What is a call ahead a week in advance?
Rather than waiting until the grass is tall, homeowners should begin this when new grass reaches about 3½–4 inches.
What is mowing?
Core aeration helps fertilizers move into the root zone, improving the plant's ability to do this.
What is absorb nutrients more efficiently?
This characteristic allows turf-type tall fescue to stay greener longer during summer heat and dry periods.
Why is a deeper extensive root system?
This combination of warm soil, cooler air temperatures, and more daylight remaining makes early fall the ideal time to establish turf-type tall fescue.
What is optimal growing conditions?
These act as turning lanes that technicians will use to turn around machines in lawns to maintain full coverage and a professional aesthetic.
What are border passes?
Applying this at the recommended time helps young grass continue developing a strong root system before winter.
What is a fertilizer application?
This result of core aeration helps lawns better withstand drought, heat, and everyday stress.
What is developing deeper root systems?
Compared to older tall fescue varieties, this improvement to TTTF gives today's premium lawns a softer feel, more attractive appearance, and thicker turf.
What is a finer/more narrow leaf blade?
This is the biggest advantage of seeding turf-type tall fescue at the beginning of the recommended seeding window instead of waiting until later in the fall.
What is maximizing establishment time before winter?
The new ride on aerator being used this year that will help to limit breakdowns on the road and complete more stops in a day.
What is a Stinger?
This common homeowner mistake can damage tender seedlings before they're fully established.
What is excessive traffic from people, pets, or equipment