Three Reasons Why Aerating Your Lawn Is Good for the Environment
by spencer • February 26, 2012 • Lawn Aeration Tips • 0 Comments
Did you know that aeration is good for the environment?
There are a lot of reasons why aerating is good for the environment, but some of the best reasons are as follows:
Aerating your lawn with a lawn aerator helps your lawn stay green with less water. There are even a lot of companies that will give you a $25 mail-in rebate just for aerating your lawn. Aerating your lawn can save you from having to use a lot of water, and your lawn will still stay green. This is because the roots of a lawn that have been aerated are typically deeper and go further down into the soil. Also, water has an easier time penetrating through the surface of the soil because of the holes that exist. Not only is using less water, slightly better for the environment, but more importantly, it is a lot of money to have to pay on your water bill. In addition, it also helps protect your roots from being damaged by or excessively hot temperatures.
Lawn Aeration also helps strengthen your roots and allows your plants to grow more vigorously so they can produce more oxygen. It only takes 600 sq. feet of lawn to produce enough oxygen for a family of four. This is something that some environmentalists and extremists don’t want to tell you. They don’t want you to know that having a healthy lawn around your house, more than compensates for the environmental impact of having a family. A lot of these environmentalists, like the ones in Portland, lobby for building houses on smaller and smaller lots. They are not taking into consideration the fact that having a large lot, or a large amount of grass, is actually way better for the environment, then having less land.
But having a healthy lawn around your house really does help out the environment. If you can keep your lawn green and healthy, you can be producing oxygen all year around (and absorbing carbon dioxide ). The greener and healthier your lawn looks, the more oxygen and will be able to produce. When you aerate it, you only encourage it to grow better. Also lawns can absorb a lot of polution and removes it from the air.
The third reason why aerating is good for the environment, is that it creates lots of plugs that you can leave on your lawn. These plugs breakdown into a type of natural fertilizer, that can help out your lawn. A lot and skipping companies say that aerating your lawn, does the same thing as roadkill and, in that it allows your soil to be circulated so that you not only allow more air into the soil, but you also allow soil to be absorbed from the top down. Aerating your lawn not only acts as a fertilizer, but you can also add fertilizer at the same time, and dramatically increased the growth of your lawn.
The only downside about aerating, is that it uses a little bit of gas, but gas is just converted into water and carbon dioxide which can be absorbed very easily by plants. Actually, gas that is used in cars, does a great deal to help out plants.
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