Seasonal
The single highest-value fall service
Marin’s clay-loam soil compacts over a rainless summer, and a handful of properties — especially near Corte Madera’s Ring Mountain, known for its distinctive serpentine grassland — sit on serpentine-influenced soil that compacts even harder and drains poorly. Core aeration pulls real plugs out of the lawn rather than just poking holes, which actually relieves that compaction instead of adding to it.
Fall is the right window here — the lawn is still growing enough to recover quickly, and the open holes let the first rain of the season reach the root zone directly instead of running off a compacted surface.
If your lawn feels hard as concrete by September, that’s compaction, not a watering problem.
Fall ServicePairs With Overseeding
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What's Included
Full-yard core pulls — Plugs pulled and left on the lawn to break down naturally, not hauled off.
Best paired with overseeding — The open holes are the best window all year to get new seed to root.
Timed before winter rain — Scheduled while the lawn is still actively growing but summer heat stress has passed.
