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title: When Is the Best Time to Aerate Your Lawn? | Emerald Lawns
description: The best time to aerate your lawn is in late spring and early summer. Plus, there's a City of Austin rebate to help you out!
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# [When Is the Best Time to Aerate Your Lawn? | Emerald Lawns](https://emeraldlawns.com/blog/best-time-aerate-lawn)

 Written by [Emerald Lawns](https://emeraldlawns.com/blog/author/emerald-lawns) | Jun 16, 2014

When Is the Best Time to Aerate Your Lawn?

Liquid aeration is the process of creating pathways in the soil to allow air, sunshine, water, and nutrients to access the soil. Aeration can **help your lawn’s roots get deeper and your soil to get healthier.** In this blog, you’ll learn a bit about liquid aeration and the benefits of the process!

# When & Why You Should Aerate Your Lawn

Regardless of the time of year, liquid aeration **helps you to handle drought conditions** because water can get through to your deeper levels of soil. Depending on where you live, you could qualify for a rebate on lawn aeration from your city. **You’ll have a healthier lawn and more money in your pocketbook!** That’s what we call a win-win.

For **warm season grasses**, like those you find in Texas, you should aerate in the *late spring or early summer.*

- Bermuda
- St. Augustine
- Zoysiagrass

**Cold season grasses** should be aerated in *late summer or early fall.*

- Fescue
- Wheatgrass
- Texas Bluegrass

#### How often should you aerate your lawn?

**The best time to aerate your lawn** varies depending on the type of soil and grass you have. Since liquid aeration is so important for clay soil it should be rated twice a year; once in the spring and once in the fall. Sandy soil should be aerated once a year, either in the spring or the fall.

# More About the Rebate

Here’s how it could look:

1. Emerald Lawns provides you with lawn aeration and give you a receipt
2. You take photos of the completed work and turn in the application, receipts, and photos
3. Lastly, await **your $50 rebate** *(and make plans to treat yourself to dinner when you receive it!)*

Check out a list we put together of local cities that offer rebates for aeration. We’ve linked to the rebate pages in ***blue***.

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  ***[City of Austin](http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/2019-01-28_Landscape-Survival-Tools-Rebate-App.pdf)***
- **
  
  ***[City of San Marcos](https://tx-sanmarcoscity.civicplus.com/)***
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  *[**LCRA Customers**](https://www.lcra.org/water/watersmart/Pages/rebates.aspx)*

#### [****LCRA Customers List](https://emeraldlawns.com/blog/best-time-aerate-lawn?hs_amp=true#faf32a5c5654b25cd)

Aqua Texas (Barton Creek Lakeside Utilities)  
Aqua Texas (Rivercrest Water System)  
Buena Vista Water System  
City of Burnet  
City of Cedar Park  
City of Cottonwood Shores  
City of Granite Shoals  
City of Horseshoe Bay  
City of Lago Vista  
City of Leander  
City of Marble Falls  
City of Pflugerville  
Corix Utilities  
Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation  
Hays County WCID #1  
Hays County WCID #2  
Reunion Ranch WCID  
Hidden Valley Subdivision Cooperative  
Hidden Valley Subdivision Cooperative  
Hurst Creek MUD  
Hurst Creek MUD  
Hurst Creek MUD  
Inverness Point Water System  
Jonestown Water Supply Corporation  
Kingsland Water Supply Corporation  
Lakeway MUD #1  
Lazy Nine MUD 1-A  
Llano County MUD #1  
Loop 360 Water Supply Corporation  
Pecan Utilities Company  
Peninsula Bluffs  
PK-RE Development Company  
Sail Haven Water System  
Senna Hills MUD  
Travis County MUD #10  
Travis County MUD #12  
Travis County MUD #18  
Travis County MUD #4  
Travis County WCID #17  
Travis County WCID #18  
Travis County WCID #18  
Travis County WCID #20  
Travis County WCID Point Venture  
Village of Briarcliff  
West Travis County PUA  
Windermere Oaks Water Supply Corporation

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