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Hollow tining by Bespoke Lawn Care: deep aeration for a thriving lawn

In Rowtown, Bespoke Lawn Care champions hollow tining as a key element of their tailored lawn care approach. This specific form of aeration involves removing small plugs of soil from the lawn, creating a network of channels that significantly improve the health and resilience of your turf.

1. What is hollow tining?

Hollow tining utilises a machine fitted with hollow tines (prongs) that penetrate the lawn and extract small cores of soil and thatch.
These cores are then deposited on the surface of the lawn for removal or allowed to dry and break down. You should sweep up these cores and put them on a compost heap or your borders.
Compared to solid tining (which simply punches holes), hollow tining provides a more comprehensive solution to soil compaction and thatch issues, particularly on heavier or frequently used lawns.

2. Benefits of hollow tining for your lawn

Relieves Soil Compaction: Hollow tining is exceptionally effective at breaking up compacted soil, which hinders root growth and limits access to water and nutrients. By removing soil cores, it creates space for the remaining soil to expand and breathe.
Enhances Air and Water Penetration: The channels created by hollow tining allow air, water, and nutrients to penetrate deeper into the soil and reach the grass roots more effectively. This is crucial for healthy root development and overall plant vitality. Lawntonics states that these openings enable water, air and fertiliser to reach the root zone of the grass plant.
Reduces Thatch Build-up: By removing small plugs of soil and sub-surface thatch, hollow tining helps to reduce and manage excessive thatch layers that can suffocate the lawn and create conditions favorable for pests and diseases.
Improves Drainage: On lawns prone to waterlogging, hollow tining improves drainage by creating pathways for water to seep deeper into the soil, reducing surface runoff and the likelihood of pooling.
Stimulates Root Growth: Stronger, deeper roots are essential for a resilient lawn. Hollow tining encourages root growth by providing space and access to vital resources, making the grass more resistant to drought, diseases, and wear.
Boosts Microbial Activity: Aerated soil provides a better environment for beneficial microorganisms that break down organic matter and release essential nutrients into the soil.
Prepares for Overseeding and Top Dressing: The holes created by hollow tining provide an ideal seedbed for overseeding, ensuring good seed-to-soil contact and improved germination rates. It also facilitates the incorporation of top dressing, further improving soil structure.

3. When to hollow tine

Optimal Timing: The best times for hollow tining in the UK are generally during the spring or autumn months. This is when the soil is typically moist enough to be easily penetrated but not waterlogged or frozen.
Spring Tining: Can help the lawn recover from winter stress, prevent drought stress in the upcoming summer, and encourage healthy root development.
Autumn Tining: Prepares the lawn for the colder, wetter months by improving drainage and increasing soil temperature, which is ideal at this time of year.
Frequency: Most lawns benefit from hollow tining annually, but the frequency can depend on soil type and the extent of compaction.

By incorporating hollow tining into their tailored lawn care programs, Bespoke Lawn Care ensures your lawn receives the deep aeration it needs to thrive, resulting in a healthier, thicker, and more resilient turf in Rowtown.

In Surrey's green heart, where lawns seek to thrive,

Bespoke Lawn Care keeps green dreams alive.

A husband and wife, with knowledge so might,

Bring hollow tining, to make roots grow bright.

When soil grows compacted, beneath every tread,

the grass roots are stifled, and life feels half-fed.

They bring forth the tines, like small pipes so keen,

To lift out the cores, from your verdant green scene.

These small plugs of soil, a clear sign they impart,

that breathing room's given, a brand new, fresh start.

For air, water, nutrients, can plunge to the deep,

Where hungry grass roots, their vital stores keep.

The thatch layer shrinks, as the cores gently rise,

improving the drainage, beneath Surrey's skies.

No longer will puddles linger and stay,

as water finds pathways, to soak down and away.

This deep aeration, a gift to the ground,

makes roots grow much stronger, and resilience is found.

Less prone to disease, and the heat of the sun,

A robust green carpet, when hollow tining is done.

So trust Bespoke Lawn Care, with hands that are true,

to bring back the health and the beauty to you.

A family's dedication to nurturing your dream,

A perfect green lawn, like a heavenly gleam.

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