This crucial lawn care task could rescue your lawn this month

I’ve noticed a fair few lawns flooding this month, an unfortunate side effect of 2025’s long, hot summer. Our lawns are more compacted than ever – and alongside this month’s heavy rainfall, there’s never been a better time to aerate them.

Various September lawn care tasks can breathe life back into your grass at the end of a dry summer, but learning how to aerate your lawn is one of the most beneficial. There are two ways to do that, though: hollow tine aeration or spike aeration.

I recently discovered that one method will bag you better results at this time of year – and this month, it’s a game-changer for our lawns.