Healthy Soils, Healthy Turf: Soil Compaction and Aeration
Turf & Lawn Care
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1h 7m
This presentation will be about getting a better understanding of what soil compaction is, why it happens, and how it's important to the health of your customer's lawn. Much of lawn care today is more focused on treating the turf and less on what the turf is growing in, the soil. If the soil is healthy, then it allows the turf to be healthy, needing less inputs and effort on your part. One of the major issues with soil health is compaction. We will discuss what soil compaction is, why it happens, and the effects it has on the health and appearance of the turf. Lastly, we will talk about what needs to be done to fix soil compaction and the tools at your disposal; from mechanical aeration, soil amendments, to "liquid aeration", and we'll bust a few myths along the way.
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