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Burlington Lawn Care Providers Recommend Core
Aeration for Healthy Lawn.
Burlington is
perched on the north shore of Lake Ontario between
Toronto and Hamilton areas and even though this
growing municipality is located mostly near the
lake, it is no longer a sailing port. Any boating
vessels are strictly for recreational purposes.
Burlington
’s claim to fame is that the popular actors Jim
Carrey and Ryan Gosling are both from this once
bustling ship port-turned recreational area. Tourism
is a major industry in Burlington with many hotels,
motels and B&B’s.
The ‘center piece’ of
Burlington is the 2.2 km Skyway Bridge in addition
to its Royal Botanical Gardens which houses both
cultivated and untamed landscapes. There are over 75
parks and recreational areas located within the city
for nature lovers and environmentalists who enjoy
hiking, biking, picnics, swimming, water skiing,
boating or simply relaxing under the warm Canadian
sun.
Because Burlington has so many outdoor
venues, their city incorporates as many ‘green
spaces’ into the landscape as possible. Residents
take pride in their lawns and landscaping around
their houses to look their best and that means to
use a core aeration system every season to help the
grass grow stronger, healthier and
straighter.
Core aeration is taking a
specially designed coring machine and ‘puncturing’
or ‘thumping’ a three inch deep and three quarters
of an inch wide peg shaped hole in the ground so
that the roots of the grass can obtain much needed
and valuable nutrients from water, air and
fertilizers. The normal percentage of holes to area
covered is approximately 10 per square foot. The
‘plugs’ left behind by the core aeration machine
will need to be left on the ground – even though it
may make a homeowner’s lawn look a little funny for
a week or so – because these dirt cores will
decompose and help to continue breaking down the
thick thatch which is the layer of built-up roots,
grass and other materials between the grass and the
soil that prevent the grass from growing.
There
are numerous arguments for Burlington resident
homeowners to have their lawn aerated, the main
reason would be to control thatch which would help
reduce soil compaction, decrease summer draught
damage, improve the outcome of insect controlling
applications and reduce weeds and the need for more
toxins on the lawn from insect and weed
killers.
Diseased micro-organisms and grass
eating bugs set up residence in the various forms of
thatch around a house. Pathogenic fungi could also
grow and spread in thick thatch, and for that reason
breaking down the thatch with core aeration is a
helpful way to rid a lawn of these pesky lawn
attackers without the need for chemicals.
Too
much thatch will result in soil compaction which is
a big problem for proper root growth and that is the
basis of any healthy looking lawn. Core aeration
will help to break up the compacted soil, permitting
the necessary nutrients to reach the root system of
the grass.
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