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As I gaze out my office window at my front lawn I see an unfamiliar color – brown. In the midst of the ‘winter that wasn’t’, my lawn never really retreated fully into dormancy. Normally, all things considered, the lawn will stay green through Christmas and then go to sleep. Not so this year. Although I haven’t had to cut, there most definitely has been photosynthesis going on. The thermometer is now stuck at a balmy nineteen degrees and the lawn is fast asleep. Or so you would think.

One of the curious things about the lawn care business, and I suppose any business for that matter, is that the next season begins before the previous season ends. At Lawn Dawg, we have already engaged in our preparations for 2012 long before the last bag of fertilizer is applied to the final lawn of the season.

You know the old clique: prior planning prevents poor performance.

And it is equally true of the turfgrasses that we care for as well.

Now that autumn is upon us, we are experiencing the return of everyone's favorite landscape activity - raking leaves!

We field many inquiries from customers during this time of year about the appropriateness of applying fertilizer to leaf covered lawns and how it can be that the application is effective.

What is aeration?

Lawn aeration involves the removal of small soil plugs or cores out of the lawn. This process is done by using an aerator. At Lawn Dawg we have both walk behind mechanical aerators and tow behind aerators that we attach to lawn tractors. The image below does not represent our exact equipment, but we wanted to share an image of the two types mentioned.