I have always taught you guys that the way to have a healthy organic lawn is to first start with healthy lawn soil. If you can get your hard-packed and basically sterile clay soil to be alive with bio-organisms, you can have a nice lawn that will stand up to the test of time.
How To Soften Clay Soil
There are a couple ways to soften up and improve the clay soil that is the foundation of your turf. The first one and best one (because it requires no chemical or anything resembling a chemical) is to have the lawn aerated. Aerating your lawn is a process whereby cores of soil are removed from the lawn. The result is the clay soil is literally “aired out” and water and nutrients are able to penetrate into areas that were previously hard and compacted.
I recommend you aerate your lawn every single year, however, if you can do it in the spring and the fall, all the better. Of course, after you aerate, you should also throw down some fresh grass seed.
The next thing you can do is use liquid gypsum. It’s a very easy to apply product that does a lot of the same things that an aeration will do. The natural ingredients in the liquid lawn aeration will literally penetrate into hard clay soil and help bring in fresh air and nutrients. It’s best to use the two of these strategies in conjunction with one another.
But I realize that a lot of you are not able or willing to go and rent and aeration machine and then spend labor hours using it… I get it. So using the liquid lawn aeration in the form of liquid gypsum is a great alternative that works. Get It Here.
