Coring

If you've ever noticed the lawns at a bowling green, and wondered why they always look so much better than yours, the following steps are the ones used to get that degree of perfection. Coring is carried out by a specially developed machine owned by AKERS of LAWN. In the old days, (and still in use by some lawn maintenance people) a few holes were poked into a lawn with a fork or machine that pushes the soil back down. This method of coring creates small holes by compacting the area around the hole and thus compounding the problem of hard soils. The coring machine which AKERS of LAWN use, on the other hand, actually extracts plugs of soil at 2 to 3 inch intervals, to a depth of up to three inches. By removing the plug to form a hole, water and nutrients are able to penetrate deep into the root system and when done regularly, can save up to 50 watering.