Aerification & Recovery Program
When aerification holes are open, take the opportunity to improve soil structure, stimulate recovery, and rebuild turf health after the stress of a long summer.
Build Stronger Soil During Aerification
Aerification is one of the best opportunities of the year to improve soil structure, increase rooting, and accelerate turf recovery after summer stress. When aerification holes are open, nutrients, carbon sources, biology, and minerals can move directly into the soil profile where they are needed most.
Renovate Plus
Filling aerification holes with Renovate Plus helps improve water holding capacity, pore space, nutrient retention, recoverability, and long-term soil sustainability.
Renovate Plus is a carbon-based soil amendment rich in active compost, dry kelp meal, humic acids, and essential mineral sources including hard and soft rock phosphate, greensand, Sul-Po-Mag, and soluble calcium. These ingredients help rebuild depleted soils and support healthier microbial activity.
Renovate Plus is also made with 50% Ecolite®, a premium zeolite known for improving soil structure while helping retain moisture and nutrients like potassium and ammonium nitrogen. This creates a more balanced root zone that performs better during heat, drought, and traffic stress.
Myco Replenish 3-3-3
Myco Replenish 3-3-3 combines endo and ecto mycorrhizae fungi with carbon-rich organic fertility to stimulate deeper rooting and improved nutrient uptake.
Mycorrhizae form a natural relationship with plant roots, extending the effective root system and helping turf access water and nutrients more efficiently. The result is stronger root development, faster recovery, improved stress tolerance, and healthier turf throughout the growing season.
Ideal for all turfgrass applications as well as landscape beds, trees, and ornamental plants.
Replenish Fertility
Applying Replenish 5-4-5 or Replenish 10-2-5 after aerification delivers a carbon-based fertility application designed to support rapid recovery and healthy turf growth.
These organic-based fertilizers provide plant available nutrition while feeding soil biology, helping aerification holes heal quickly and encouraging stronger, more resilient turf.
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Aerification timing can make a big difference.
Aerification FAQs
Aerification helps relieve soil compaction, improve oxygen movement into the soil, increase water infiltration, and stimulate deeper root growth. It also creates an opportunity to introduce carbon sources, biology, minerals, and fertility directly into the soil profile.
Post-aerification applications should focus on soil recovery and root development. Carbon-based fertilizers, compost, humic acids, mycorrhizae fungi, and mineral amendments can help accelerate recovery while improving long-term soil structure and biological activity.
Renovate Plus helps fill aerification holes with carbon-rich organic matter, minerals, and Ecolite® zeolite. This supports better water holding capacity, nutrient retention, pore space, and healthier soil biology while improving overall turf recoverability.
Aerification creates ideal conditions for introducing mycorrhizae fungi into the soil. Mycorrhizae attach to plant roots and help expand the effective root system, improving nutrient uptake, drought tolerance, rooting depth, and overall turf performance.
Carbon-based fertilizers help feed both the plant and the soil biology. Unlike conventional quick-release fertilizers alone, carbon-based fertility programs support microbial activity, improve nutrient cycling, and encourage more sustainable turf recovery.
Recovery time depends on temperature, moisture, turf type, and fertility programs. Using biological soil amendments, carbon-based fertilizers, and proper irrigation can significantly improve healing and turf recovery speed.
Yes. Aerification helps reduce compaction and improve water infiltration. Combining aerification with products like Ecolite® zeolite and carbon-based soil amendments can also improve water holding capacity and moisture uniformity in the root zone.
No. Aerification benefits golf courses, sports fields, athletic complexes, sod farms, commercial landscapes, and high-end lawn care programs. Any compacted turf area can benefit from improved oxygen exchange and soil structure.
The best timing depends on turf type and region. Cool-season turf is typically aerified in spring or fall, while warm-season turf is commonly aerified during active summer growth periods to encourage faster recovery.
Healthy soil requires oxygen for root growth and microbial activity. Aerification increases oxygen movement into the soil profile, helping support stronger roots, improved nutrient cycling, and healthier biological activity.
2 Minute Turf Talk Aerification and Oxygen
EarthWorks March 17, 2022 3:36 pm