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To prepare your lawn for aeration and overseeding, test and amend the soil; clear, mow, and dethatch the lawn; and identify the most compacted areas, to name a few.

Overseeding means spreading grass seeds over an existing lawn, while reseeding involves tearing up your old lawn before seeding to start from scratch.

The benefits of overseeding include a thicker lawn, natural weed control, better drought tolerance, less soil erosion, and more.

Typically, you’ll need to overseed your lawn annually. How often you should overseed your lawn depends on your lawn condition, grass type, and other factors.

Whenever you plant grass seed over an existing lawn, that’s called overseeding. It’s done to maintain lawn health and aesthetics.

To overseed, you need to dethatch, aerate, amend the soil, and mow your lawn low. Learn more about how to overseed a lawn here.

Best time to aerate and overseed a lawn is fall and spring for cool-season grasses, and summer for warm-season grasses.

Overseeding in spring can improve your lawn’s look. Find out what grasses you can overseed in the spring to create lush, thick lawns.