Chris J Dixon wrote:
Gardening magazines seem to like the idea of lawn aeration. My
small domestic lawn has never had such treatment in the 30 years
I have lived here, and I am wondering if it is worth doing.

Has anybody successfully used a hollow tine aerator without it
continually clogging? If so, what was it? I couldn't get a bulb
planter to work at all, so tiny tines seem a non-starter.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-30565-Lawn-Aerator/dp/B00HNUQ0MW/ref=sr_1_4?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1490615967&sr=1-4&keywords=lawn+aerator

Are the spiked drum type any good?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-83983-Rolling-Aerator-Spiked-x/dp/B01BYA8WRC/ref=sr_1_6?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1490615967&sr=1-6&keywords=lawn+aerator

I have a little moss, no waterlogging, and soil which tends to
clay.

Chris


I spent years doing it (with a fork, pushing it back and to), always
wondering if it made a difference. One year, I decided to do one half
of the lawn and leave the other half. If there was a difference, it was
too subtle for me to notice. So now, I just let the worms live instead
:-) I had one of the hollow ones, and threw it away after about a year.
Maybe I was just doing it wrong all the time?