Aeration & Seeding

What we have is a foot actuated hydraulic pressure system. When I push my foot down here, it puts the tines down so it can start pulling cores. As we drive forward, those tines, those cores, are being pulled out and pushed forward and pushes the machine forward itself.

At the same time that we push that lever down and the cores are being pulled, the seed box is opening and dispensing exactly in the same spot. Dropping it down right in front of the tines. We just finished up the aeration on the lawn here, you can see I pulled up a couple cores. All the cores are pretty uniform, looks like there’s good color, good overall uniformity in the soil which is really great. Good depth on the core itself, and we were able to aerate this relatively easily. I didn’t feel a lot of rocks as we were going through and we were dropping seed so that was ending up in the areas where the cores would go. A question I do get a lot is,  “Do we need to pick these up?” The answer is no. They break up and they turn into a top dressing for the soil. They’ll either fill the hole a bit, or we’ll just turn that soil over. The aeration itself actually helps with some water infiltration, so it allows the water to get to that root system, allows the nutrients to get to that root system, and allows the air in as well. We need all three of those things to make sure that the grass is healthy.