What's up guys, Aiden here, Aizel on Landscaping. Welcome back to another video. In today's video, we're going to be talking about the how and why of aeration. We're also going to be talking about the difference between mechanical and liquid aeration. Without further ado, let's get into the video. So as many of you may know, I did the liquid section on my backyard, which three weeks ago, about two or three weeks ago, I applied the bio-stimulate pack to that section. So that was my non-mechanical aeration test. I also did the same to the front yard. Now as you can see here, I did a complete mechanical section, which I'm sure if you already haven't seen here, you're about to see, I did a whole mechanical section, which I did a triple pass, aeration on that section, which opened up the soil even further than a single pass, because I was able to get holes closer and more frequent than if you just did a single pass. So that's what I did in the lawn, and I split it up by approximately 1,000 square foot sections. So now we're just going to talk about aeration, whether it's mechanical or liquid, we're just going to talk about it in general. So what it does for your lawn, so it opens up the soil to provide better nutrient uptake, which means the nutrients can reach the base of the soil where they need to be, not sitting on the leaves of the plant to help the turf grow better. It also helps nutrients dive deeper, which kind of piggybacks on what we just said. So it also helps the nutrients get down and penetrate to be able to reach the base of the soil to help the turf plant grow. So if you're overseeding, like I did this fall, it also helps the seed reach the seed to soil contact. So by opening up your soil, it helps the seed dive down into the turf to help reach the soil and help germinate better. Next week's video, stay tuned for that. We'll be more in depth on what you need to know about that. And that brings me into my next point. You have two ways to perform an aeration. You can either do a liquid aeration or a mechanical aeration. So as you know, we have a product from Green County fertilizer called Air 8. And that is the product we are using for our liquid aeration. Then you have an aerator. You can rent that at home depot. It takes gas. It's usually by the brand Ryan Turf or a clawson. And it's an aerator and you drop the tines down and it rides across the lawn pulling a 1 to 3 inch course out of the lawn. Now a product that didn't use today but is also an option. It's simple lawn solutions. They make a liquid soil loosener. It's a liquid aeration. So that is an option. You can also use it. It is a little bit cheaper. It's a smaller jug. And I'm not really sure anything about it because I have yet to use it. So we'll probably be testing this out in this spring. But from there, let's talk about pricing. Because that's going to be our second or third point. You can rent an aerator usually for 24 hours for about a hundred bucks plus gas. You know, you're looking at tax probably about $110 for that. You can get two two and a half gallon jugs of airy for $105. Now that seems pricey. But let's break down the math and find out why that's so cheap and how that actually breaks down per application. As many of you are probably familiar with the product airy, it is made by Green County fertilizer and is 0.05. So that means it has 5% potassium in your jug. The job of that product is to loosen up the soil and break up the soil for better nutrient penetration to help the nutrients reach the base of the soil and encourage deeper brooding. It also helps drive neck oxygen down to the top soil profile to help penetrate, again, more deeper roots. Usually this product is applied with the bio-stimula pack which also consists of 0, 0, 2 microgreen, humic 12. And the last one is RGS which is pretty familiar product to most of you. This product can also be used as a potassium supplement in the summer because some of you live in Florida, which means you have blackout periods where you can't apply nitrogen. So you can use this as a potassium supplement or if you want it just low in potassium, it is something you can go ahead and use. Now if you've purchased this product as part of the bio-stimula pack, I'm going to quickly go over all the other products that are in the bio-stimula pack. But if you are interested in learning more about the bio-stimula pack that I may not go over in this video, I will leave a link in the top right hand corner to one of the videos I have done and a link in the top right hand corner to a buddy of mine, Jake the lawn kid is done on the same thing. I can also leave links to those videos in the description down below. First of all, we're going to talk about RGS and that stands for root growth stimulant. So as you can tell by a title, it helps stimulate the roots to open up the soil to help root penetration to get your nutrients down to the base of the soil. Humic 12 helps correct soil issues and also helps with your soil. These products are very important because you want to apply them not only giving out your lawn a dose of the microbes which are all those you want to give it a dose of the macros which brings us into our next product, 002 microgreen that comes in that pack. That product can also be used in Florida black out periods as it does not have any nitrogen as well. So with that, that wraps up your entire bio-stimula pack. If you want to learn more information, those videos are linked in the top right hand corner as well as the description down below. Without further ado, let's get into why you are here and that's probably pricing. If you want to pick up some airate, I will leave a link in the description down below to where you can get some airate. But if you wanted to buy all airate, you can get two and a half gallon jugs of airate for $105. So if you divide that in half, also put the math up on the screen so you can see it. That would be $52.50 for a $2.5 gallon jug which breaks down to $21 for a $1 gallon jug. If your application rate for the fall over seating is going to be high so it's 9 ounces per thousand, that would be a 45 ounce application. That's total. That's a whole application for your entire yard if you have a 5,000 square foot lawn. That breaks down to a whopping $7.39 an app. If you do that two times a year, that's roughly $15.00. You add on a dial and spray and you're looking at $25 for airation. This product can keep going deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. It just keeps pushing deeper. Whereas mechanical airation stops as deep as your core's pull. This product is unlimited to how deep it can go. And I'm not kidding. I've seen some crazy stuff of people putting sticks down in their lawn and how far they go down. I'm telling you guys, it may seem like more money up front but it's really, if you do the math, spend a little time doing the math and break it down. It's really cheap and it might save your butt from not having to do the airation work. Now for some of you, you just might like what a good old mechanical airation has to offer you. So here I will roll a few minutes, maybe not even a few minutes, maybe 30 seconds of some footage I did on that. Let's get to it. Well, then some of you may ask, why did I aerate my lawn? Basically, I wanted to do a test plot for you guys, a 101 comparison next to each other of the products liquid versus mechanical right next to each other. I did that only for you guys. Otherwise I'd go all liquid on my entire lawn. So we will keep up with those results over the next few weeks and I will show you updates. If you have any questions about these products, please feel free to leave them down in the description or mean the comments down below. I can answer them. I can have lawn buddies answer them. Anybody with more knowledge than make and take care of questions that I can't answer. I'm going to show you guys some beer all here of me doing my own lawn with the liquid airation as well as the mechanical airation. With that, I'm Aiden from Aeslon landscaping. Thank you for watching and I hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you on the next one.