Gardzen Plug Aeration, Hand Hollow Tine Lawn Aerator, Heavy Duty Aerator for Compacted Soils and Lawns, 35″ x 11″, Black

Folks I thought I took pics, however I am not able to locate them right now. Wanted to write a quick review, few quick notes. My folks yard was/is very compacted since they lived there for years, plus my brother having OCD would cut the grass 4 – 6 times a week. Needless to say, years later now in 2020 I am working to fix up the house and sell it. Couldn’t grow grass anywhere since 95% of the yard was hard compacted soil/clay, etc. Most of the yard ended up being weeds like clover and such because of the frequent grass cutting, no fertilizer and no upkeep/maintenance other than cutting. I picked up a Sunjoe dethatcher, which was truly a miracle to even know something like that existed, figure I would manually aerate the lawn because it couldn’t hurt to get water and nutrients into the soil.SUPER easy to aerate, and keep in mind you might have to move your one side of this tool if you hit a stone or something. I would even go through and step on the foot part and push one side down, then tilt the aerating tool for the other side to go in. Then tubes of soil would pop out of the tubes and just leave those go, they will break down shortly and you will never know they are there. Once in a great while I would need to use a screwdriver in one side of something got lodged in the tube.Would HIGHLY recommend, keeping in mind this is a manual process and I did it over a few days here and there throughout the yard. Takes no time to do, worked great after some rain, but regardless I even did most of the aeration holes mid summer, no rain and had no issues. All told I spent about 7 hrs over 3 days or so, and its done! You don’t have to go through back to back holes, mind are roughly less than 1 – 2 ft, sometimes even 3 – 4 ft away from other aerating holes I created. Then I fertilized when it started getting cooler out and the lawn LOOKS incredibly beautiful, the fertilizer has iron in it, which I think is the component that really helped the lawn develop a nice darker, richer green color.