Valley slopes shed water and thin soil dries fast. Core aeration gets rainfall into the root zone instead of down the hill.
Serving the Naugatuck valley from Sandy Hook · Fairfield, New Haven & Litchfield counties
We pull thousands of soil plugs to open compacted clay and rocky loam, so air, water and nutrients reach the root zone.
Turf-Type tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass blend, A-List blue-tag varieties, dropped straight into the aeration holes.
Cooler air and fall moisture give new seed its best window to establish before winter and root deeply going into the cold.
Aeration reaches 2 to 3 inches, so irrigation heads and lines, low-voltage wiring and invisible fences need marking first. Most customers mark their own — we can do it for a fee if you'd rather.
Not sure whether your lawn needs it this fall? We'll walk the property and give you a straight answer — including if the timing's wrong.
Get a QuoteNaugatuck is built on the sides of a river valley, and that shapes almost every lawn in the borough. The land drops away from the ridges toward the Naugatuck River, so most properties sit on some degree of slope. On the upper lots the soil is thin over ledge and drains fast — grass browns off early in a dry August. Lower down, water that ran off those slopes collects, and lawns stay wet long after a storm has passed.
Compaction makes both ends worse. Tight soil on a slope sheds water instead of holding it, so the top of the grade gets less moisture than the rainfall would suggest. At the bottom, compacted ground can't move water down, so it sits. Core aeration is the one treatment that addresses both: opening the profile lets water infiltrate where it lands rather than running to the low corner. We aerate in fall and overseed into the holes with a turf-type tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass blend — fescue's deeper roots are particularly useful on Naugatuck's thinner upper-slope soils, where a shallow-rooted lawn gives up first.
Based in Sandy Hook, we service the towns around us every day. Your lawn is on a route we already run.
Connecticut licence PMCS-065378. The same crew can feed your lawn, manage weeds and treat for ticks.
We don't offer dethatching or liquid aeration, because core aeration does the job properly. If your lawn needs something else, we'll say so.
More so, not less. Sloped lawns lose more water to runoff than flat ones, so opening the soil so rainfall soaks in where it lands makes a bigger difference. Overseeding into the holes also matters more on a slope, because seed broadcast onto compacted ground on a grade tends to wash to the bottom before it germinates.
Early September through mid-October. Fall gives seed warm soil to germinate in and cool air to establish in, and it avoids opening the soil in spring right when crabgrass is looking for bare ground.
You do — or we can, for a fee. Core aeration reaches two to three inches, so irrigation heads and lines, low-voltage lighting wire and invisible dog fences all need marking before we start. Most customers handle it themselves because they know where things run.
Fall is the window, and it's short. Tell us about your property and we'll build the plan around it.