Lawn Aeration Services
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With Regina’s heavy soil, aeration is an essential service for healthy lawns
In order to achieve and maintain a beautiful lawn, you should employ basic lawn care practices such as properly mowing, fertilizing and watering. It is also important to ensure that nutrients can reach the soil beneath your grass. Aeration can be an extremely vital element to a healthy lawn because it allows air and water to penetrate built-up grass or lawn thatch.
Get rid of thatch and make way for a beautiful lawn with this quick guide to aeration. You’ll learn why, how and when to aerate your lawn for the best results.
What is aeration?
Aeration involves perforating the soil with small holes to allow air, water and nutrients to penetrate the grass roots. This helps the roots grow deeply and produce a stronger, more vigorous lawn.
The main reason for aerating is to alleviate soil compaction. Compacted soils have too many solid particles in a certain volume or space, which prevents proper circulation of air, water and nutrients within the soil. Excess lawn thatch or heavy organic debris buried under the grass surface can also starve the roots from these essential elements.
Should You Be Aerating Your Lawn?
One of the most common questions from homeowners is how to determine if they should be aerating their lawn. Your lawn is probably a good candidate for aeration if it:
Gets heavy use, such as serving as the neighborhood playground or racetrack. Children and pets running around the yard contribute to soil compaction.
Was established as part of a newly constructed home. Often, the topsoil of newly constructed lawns is stripped or buried, and the grass established on subsoil has been compacted by construction traffic.
Dries out easily and has a spongy feel. This might mean your lawn has an excessive thatch problem. Take a shovel and remove a slice of lawn about four inches deep. If the thatch layer is greater than one-half inch, aeration is recommended.
Was established by sod, and soil layering exists. Soil layering means that soil of finer texture, which comes with imported sod, is layered over the existing coarser soil. This layering disrupts drainage, as water is held in the finer-textured soil. This leads to compacted conditions and poor root development. Aerating breaks up the layering, allowing water to flow through the soil more easily and reach the roots.
When to Aerate Your Lawn
The best time for aeration is during the growing season, when the grass can heal and fill in any open areas after soil plugs are removed. Ideally, aerate the lawn with cool season grass in the early spring or fall and those with warm season grass in the late spring.


Aeration mechanically creates thousands of holes in your lawn to help loosen your soil.
The benefits of a less compacted soil include increased root development, increased water penetration and holding capacity, increased nutrient uptake from fertilizing, and increased break down of thatch. We believe Aeration is such an essential service that we include one application in our Gold Program and two applications in our Platinum Program.
Weed Pro is committed to high quality service, therefore when we aerate your lawn, the passes that our machine makes are tight, and often overlap. We will aerate your entire lawn.
Note for customers with underground sprinklers: We do not want your sprinkler heads damaged by our machines. You will need to mark them for us. Weed Pro will send you an email reminder to do this before we come out.
Lawn Aeration Services
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Servicing clients in Regina, Weyburn, Moose Jaw, Lumsden, White City, Emerald Park, Pilot Butte and Grand Coulee.
About Weed Pro
Weed Pro is a locally owned business servicing Regina and the surrounding area. Our experience in the lawn care industry started in 2004.
Our technicians have been certified by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture and continue to learn about the lawn care industry on an ongoing basis. All the products Weed Pro uses are registered with Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency.
We use some of the safest and most environmentally friendly products. Weed Pro takes a proactive approach to lawn care, keeping your lawn thick and healthy to ward off weed establishment and pest infestations.
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