Aeration & Seeding
Professional core aeration service to relieve soil compaction and improve your lawn's health. Add overseeding to thicken your turf and fill in thin areas.
What's Included
Best Time: Spring (March-May) or Fall (September-November)
Service Time: Typically within 1-2 weeks of purchase
Core aeration is one of the most beneficial services you can do for your lawn. It relieves soil compaction, allowing air, water, and nutrients to reach the root zone more effectively.
Service Options
- Core Aeration: Removes small plugs of soil to reduce compaction
- Improves air, water, and nutrient penetration to roots
- Promotes deeper root growth for a healthier lawn
- Helps break down thatch naturally
Add Seeding (+$174)
Core Aeration & Seeding: Combines aeration with professional overseeding using premium Tall Fescue seed. The aeration holes provide ideal seed-to-soil contact for optimal germination.
Overseeding helps thicken thin areas, fills bare spots, and introduces improved grass varieties for a lusher, more resilient lawn.
Core Aeration Results
Frequently Asked Questions
Core aeration is the process of mechanically removing small plugs of soil from your lawn. This creates channels that allow air, water, and nutrients to penetrate the soil more effectively.
The small soil plugs left on the surface will break down naturally within 1-2 weeks, returning nutrients to the lawn.
For cool-season grasses like Tall Fescue (common in Virginia), the best times to aerate are spring (March-May) and fall (September-November).
Fall is ideal because it coincides with the lawn's natural growth period and allows the grass to recover before winter.
Yes! Aeration creates the perfect conditions for overseeding. The holes provide excellent seed-to-soil contact, which dramatically improves germination rates.
If your lawn has thin areas, bare spots, or you want a thicker, more lush appearance, adding seeding is highly recommended.
For aeration only, you'll notice improved lawn health and color within 2-4 weeks as nutrients and water reach the roots more effectively.
For aeration with seeding, expect to see new grass seedlings emerge in 10-21 days, with the lawn filling in over 6-8 weeks.
For aeration only, normal watering is sufficient. The improved soil structure will actually help your lawn retain moisture better.
For aeration with seeding, we recommend light, frequent watering (2-3 times daily for 5-10 minutes) for the first 2-3 weeks to keep seeds moist until germination.
After purchase, your service is typically scheduled within 1-2 weeks depending on current demand and weather conditions.
You'll receive an email confirmation with scheduling details, and we'll notify you before and after the service is completed.
You don't need to be home for the service to be performed. That's what's great about the service notifications we have in place here at A Cut Above.
You'll receive an email notification before and after we perform the service, so you'll know when we're coming and when the work is complete.