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Can I ask as to why you would want to aerate - be it spiking, splitting or hollow tine? Have you taken a plug sample of the lawn and seen what is under the grass? What problem(s) are you trying to correct?
Splitting is very good and probably better than spiking as it tends to go deeper and also helps root development, also depending upon what grass species the lawn have you may want to slice the roots anyway. I would be careful about slitting if the weather improves and we move into our summer season and would be tempted to go for spiking.
I haven't got a specific job in mind but was looking into buying a new scarifier/lawn rake as have just finished a mammoth scarifying job from which I got a wheelie bin stuffed full and 12 black bin liners full of moss from a lawn that wasn't particularly big. My atco rake did the job but it was hard going. The new scarifier I was looking at has 2 'cartridges' - one for raking with tines and a slitting cassette. I do have one garden with a fairly ropey looking lawn that was laid about 2 years ago - don't know who did it but it is very compacted and the grass is very thin and its on poor soil, it doesn't have a weed or moss problem, just very sick looking. Was thinking a regular liquid feed and wondered whether splitting or slitting would ease the compaction and prune the grass roots to encourage thickening up along with regular mowing.
Graeme @ BGS said: