Aeration & Overseeding

Breathe new life into your lawn.

This annual service sets the stage for the long-term health and vitality of your lawn throughout the seasons.

Benefits of lawn aeration.

Breaks Up Thatch and Compacted Soil

Compacted soil from everyday foot traffic and thatch buildup can prevent air, water, and nutrients from reaching your grass’ roots. A properly aerated lawn promotes a greener lawn that is more resilient against environmental stressors.

Builds A Thicker, Fuller Lawn

Aeration stimulates grass root development and growth to create and maintain a lush, thick lawn. For cool-season grasses, our specialists overseed your lawn to fill in bare spots and thicken up the turf. This helps crowd out unwanted weeds when spring arrives.

Increases Nutrient Availability

Lawn aeration helps your grass’ roots access the essential nutrients they need. Aeration also boosts the effectiveness of TruGreen fertilization treatments and your ongoing watering to promote a healthy, beautiful turf.

Here’s how it works.

Timing Is Key

For warm-season grasses such as St. Augustine and Bermuda, it’s best to aerate your lawn in late spring or early summer. For cool-season grasses, such as Kentucky Bluegrass and Perennial Ryegrass, aeration is typically done in late summer or fall. During this treatment, your TruGreen specialist uses an aerator to punch small holes into your lawn to remove plugs of turf, soil, and thatch.

Overseeding

For lawns with cool-season grasses, overseeding fills in thinning areas or bare spots. This helps improve your lawn’s overall health, density, and appearance. TruGreen uses specially selected grass seed with improved disease and drought tolerance to create a lawn that stands up to stressful environmental conditions.

* Overseeding service subject to availability and grass type.

When To Water

After aeration, water like you normally would. For overseeded lawns, lightly water multiple times a day to keep soil moist to encourage germination. Continue watering frequently even after you see signs of growth (white fuzz on your soil) to prevent seedlings from drying out. Once established, you can go back to your regular watering routine.

When To Mow

You can follow your regular mowing routine after aeration. For overseeded lawns, stop mowing when you see signs of germination and wait 10 days to allow seeds to establish before mowing again. After one to two weeks, the soil and turf plugs will break down, releasing vital nutrients back into your lawn.

Guaranteed Satisfaction ◆

We pride ourselves on making sure you’re happy with your results. TruGreen will gladly visit your property as needed between scheduled visits to ensure your satisfaction.◆

Plans that include lawn aeration and overseeding.

This service can be performed as a stand-alone treatment, or as part of an existing lawn care plan.

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What’s Included

TruGreen Lawn Assessment
Tailored Lawn Plan
Fertilization and Weed Control
Lawn-Damaging Insect Control
Soil Enhancer Treatment
Aeration and Overseeding
Guaranteed Satisfaction ◆

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Questions? Glad you asked.

Please make sure to allow access to your property by keeping gates unlocked and pets inside your home on scheduled service days.

Yes. Customers who have a full program plan in place with TruGreen benefit from our Trugreen Guarantee◆, which means we’ll gladly revisit your property between scheduled visits at no additional cost to make necessary adjustments to deliver quality results with your lawn.

TruGreen uses both dry and liquid materials, depending on the time of year and what is best for your lawn. Each time we service your lawn, we will provide a service ticket listing the products we used during the visit.

TruGreen focuses on grass seed varieties that are best suited for your geographical area and the grass type in your lawn. The seed applied to TruGreen customers' lawns has excellent purity and expected germination potential. These high-quality seed varieties have shown improved disease and drought tolerance in university trials.

Absolutely! We do ask that you keep your pets inside your home on scheduled service days and keep them off a treated lawn until the application has dried.

After a service, TruGreen advises customers to allow the application to dry or dust to settle (for granular applications) before families and pets resume enjoying their lawns. Although highly dependent upon temperature and humidity, most liquid products TruGreen uses dry within 1–2 hours.

There is a rigorous selection process to choose the products we use. All products used by TruGreen are registered for use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In many cases, our product selection criteria exceeds that of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Benefits of lawn aeration.

Breaks Up Thatch and Compacted Soil

Builds A Thicker, Fuller Lawn

Increases Nutrient Availability

Here’s how it works.

Timing Is Key

Overseeding

When To Water

When To Mow

Guaranteed Satisfaction ◆

Plans that include lawn aeration and overseeding.

TruPro℠

What’s Included

Questions? Glad you asked.

Do I need to do anything to prepare for my first service?

Is my TruGreen lawn service guaranteed?

Does TruGreen use dry granular or liquid materials when treating my lawns?

What type of seed is used for overseeding treatment?

Can I receive treatment if I have pets?

When can families and pets return to serviced areas?

Are the products applied by TruGreen safe?

Your go-to guide for a healthy, beautiful lawn.

Let’s talk lawn.

Give us a call.

We’ll call you.

Need support?

Aeration & Overseeding

Breathe new life into your lawn.

Let's talk lawn.

Find the right plan.

Call us at 1-844-567-9909

Thanks! We’ll be in touch.

Here’s how it works.

Timing Is Key

Overseeding

When To Water

When To Mow

Guaranteed Satisfaction ◆

Plans that include lawn aeration and overseeding.

TruPro℠

What’s Included

Questions? Glad you asked.

Do I need to do anything to prepare for my first service?

Is my TruGreen lawn service guaranteed?

Does TruGreen use dry granular or liquid materials when treating my lawns?

What type of seed is used for overseeding treatment?

Can I receive treatment if I have pets?

When can families and pets return to serviced areas?

Are the products applied by TruGreen safe?

Let’s talk lawn.

Give us a call.

We’ll call you.

Need support?

Thanks!
We’ll be in touch.

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We’ll be in touch.