Greenkey Rolling Lawn Aerator & Grass Spiker, Manual Rotary Garden Tool, Handheld Push Pull device for garden

Product Information

It’s best practise to aerate your lawn now in late Autumn, as that will give your lawn a few weeks for it to recover before winter strikes. By using this type of tine aerator, it will allow water and air to circulate better through it. It also ensures heavy rainfall won’t ruin your lawn, which can easily be caused by waterlogging. One that’s pretty sensible is the BMC Lawn Aerator: BMC Lawn Aerator– worth a look if you’re interested in a spike roller Fitted with a 300-mm roller, the Greenkey rolling aerator covers quite a wide area at a single path. However, it best suits for aerating smaller and middle-sized lawns since it is not powered by electricity. If you do decide to treat larger areas, it will be a more challenging task that will require more time and effort from you to complete it, given its manual operation. They are simple, cheap and work really well if you get a decent pair and the only thing that lets them down is that they require you to walk around the garden for quite a long time and it can be quite tiring – from my perspective as I mention above it’s a great opportunity for exercise and clearing a chore. I like the look of the ABREOME Lawn Aerator Shoes. Fork aerators will hollow tines These types of aerators are best suited to those with small gardens as they do require a bit of manual work, but are well worth it because they are cheaper than electric/petrol machines. You can either use a normal garden pitch fork or hollow tine pitch fork to make the holes (with the pitch fork you’ll get little spikes in the ground, whereas with the hollow tines you’ll dig up plugs of turf). Hollow tines will open up the soil much more effectively so if your soil is heavily compacted or if you want to do a more thorough job then it is better to go with this option.

If the lawn aerator removes plugs of soil, it will make the soil less compact. This can help grass roots to establish, if they have become overcrowded, improving the health of the grass. The size of these shoe attachments is fully adjustable thanks to the Velcro straps. They can be adjusted to fit both male and female shoe sizes, although your shoes underneath should be secured very tightly to prevent them from coming off. There are many lawn aerators to choose from and all are built with a particular type of garden in mind. To help you decide I have outlined the different types of lawn aerators below, and explained who they are best suited to. For more tips on Lawn Aeration see my article Lawn Aeration Tips. Benefits of Lawn Aeration This particular machine is a lawn scarifier by default, but has a separate drum you can interchange that is designed specifically for aerating your lawn. Swapping the drums is quite easy – they’re secured in place with an Allen key. However, this electric aerator doesn’t penetrate as deep as many other options. The deepest you can set it to is -9mm below the surface, and you can also set the lawn scarifier up at a working depth of -3mm or +3mm.

The process of aerating your lawn using a manual hollow tine tool can be hard work to say the least. Keeping your tool sharp, clean and rust free will help to make this task easier. Both commercial and ride-on aerators come with hollow tines so you’ll be pulling up plugs of soil instead of just spiking, which promotes more effective aeration and health of your grass. This is why you see them used on golf courses and other sporting fields. Aeration with solid spikes using equipment such as the garden fork, aerator sandals or shoes, rolling lawn aerators or powered machinery is generally done to a depth between 1 and 6 inches, with the top two inches being the most important. There are also star like slitters that can be inserted as a cassette into turf machinery or towed behind ride-on mowers or lawn tractors. In this part, we’ve reviewed the 7 best aerators, including rolling lawn aerators, powered lawn aerators, aerator shoes, and manual aerators. The lawn aerator shoes might not be as effective as hollow tines but they are very easy to use. Just remember you need to use a gentle stomping motion instead of your normal walk to get the spikes to properly penetrate the ground.

Electric scarifier with three-in-one functions of scarifying, aerating and grass catching for a one-stop lawn care machine. These garden tools are very efficient, and can offer good penetration, especially if weighed down. They normally have hollow tines as well, which is great.

Mark Haley

Whilst not the most comfortable of shoes, they can be slipped on over gardening boots without much difficulty. They usually have adjustable straps so will fit almost any shoe size. Rather than coming with nails attached to multiple bars, this spike aerator comes with five star-shaped spikes along a single horizontal bar. There are a number of different types of aerators you can use to aerate your lawn. Here are some of the most common ones, and what they’re good for. Hollow tine aerators

Powered electric aerators are similar in size and shape to rolling aerators. However, an electric aerator requires much less effort to use, and are much more efficient.

My Top Recommended Lawn Aerators

This lawn aerator won’t do much in terms of removing thatch, but it’s a cheap, easy way to improve aeration on a small lawn.