See how we tackle soil compaction and breath new life into your lawn
In just minutes, see how our lawn aeration (spiking) service leaves your lawn healthy, firm and looking better than ever!
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Over time foot traffic, heavy rain and everyday use can compact the soil beneath your lawn.
Our aeration service gently opens up the ground, helping air, water and nutrients reach the roots again. This improves drainage, supports stronger root growth and creates the perfect conditions for a healthier, more resilient lawn.
Why choose our lawn aeration (spiking) service:
When soil becomes compacted, your grass doesn’t get the vital nutrients it needs to thrive.
Our aeration (spiking) service creates tiny holes across the surface of your lawn, opening up the ground, improving airflow to the roots and supporting healthier, more consistent growth across your lawn.
Compacted soil prevents water from soaking away naturally, often leading to puddles and soggy patches after rain. Aeration improves how water moves through the soil, helping your lawn drain more effectively and recover faster.
Our specialist aeration equipment is designed to treat your lawn evenly and efficiently, ensuring consistent coverage across the whole area. This delivers better results than manual methods, avoiding uneven treatment and helping protect the overall condition of your lawn.
Aeration improves access to the soil, allowing treatments like fertilisers, lawn tonics and overseeding to reach the roots more easily. This means better uptake, better results and more value from your ongoing lawn care.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Both treatments help relieve soil compaction and improve lawn health, but they’re used for different levels of need.
Lawn aeration (spiking) creates small holes in the ground using solid tines. This helps air, water and nutrients reach the roots more easily and is ideal for light to moderate compaction or as part of regular lawn care to keep your lawn in good condition.
Hollow tine aeration removes small plugs of soil from the lawn. This provides deeper, longer-lasting relief from compaction and is typically recommended for lawns with heavier compaction, poor drainage or persistent surface water issues.
In short, spiking helps maintain lawn health, while hollow tine aeration is used when the ground needs a more intensive reset. Your local Greensleeves expert will assess your lawn and recommend the most suitable option based on its condition and how it’s used.
If your lawn is looking lacklustre, struggles to drain after heavy rain or has thin areas despite regular care, then it could benefit from a lawn aeration (spiking) treatment.
Even if your grass looks okay on the surface, aeration will still help to significantly boost the health of your lawn.
During aeration, our experts create small holes across your lawn to open up the ground beneath the surface. These are barely noticeable once complete, but they allow air, water and nutrients to reach the roots, supporting healthier grass growth.
Any soil or debris brought to the surface is cleared away, leaving your lawn tidy and ready for normal use as soon as the service is finished.
Aeration should be done annually, and the service can be carried out all year round depending on the ground conditions. With our lawn care packages, we will take care of aerating your lawn at the most suitable time of the year, so you can enjoy a beautiful lawn, without the hassle!
Aeration helps your lawn grow thicker, stronger and in better overall condition. By reducing surface build up such as moss and thatch and allowing air, water and nutrients to reach the roots, grass can grow more evenly and recover more quickly after use or wet weather.
It also helps your lawn get more from ongoing treatments like feeding and overseeding, supporting healthier growth and more consistent results over time.
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