Commonwealth Sports Turf has been improving and maintaining sports turf since 2003 and has 31 years combined sports turf experience. Keith Kitchen is president, with success in both residential and commercial landscape, for sports turf companies in and around Richmond, Virginia.

1. Enhance The Beauty Of Your Sports Turf
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Keith Kitchen
Commonwealth Sports Turf has been improving and maintaining sports turf since 2003 and has 31
years combined sports turf experience. Keith Kitchen is president, with success in both residential and
commercial landscape, for sports turf companies in and around Richmond, Virginia.
Keith began Luxury Lawns, a residential turf company, which was then contracted by high profile
sports turf complexes in and around the Richmond area. His vision is to approach playing sports turf
surfaces with unique and innovative services by facilitating basic turf science to produce unique and
pristine sports turf.
Each sports turf has its own scientific chemistry and will be evaluated using science to come up with
the best strategy possible to enhance and maintain your turf.
What Type of Aeration Services Are Needed?
Your soil is checked for proper nutrients and evaluated for what type of aerator services are needed to
allow nutrients into the root of the soil.
If you have played on a golf course that has high traffic areas or you start to see spots that are brown
while the area around it is still green, your turf is beginning to compact.This is only the obvious signs of
compaction. Your sports turf could already be in the beginning stages of compacting before visibility
occurs.Compaction takes time and aeration is a process that will allow oxygen into the roots of your turf
making it stronger, thicker and greener.
The type of aerator services depends on your golf course, football field or park. Each turf has individual
needs for playing or wearing ability which can contribute to the amount of compaction. For removing
thatch or deep tinning greens, the most natural aeration that leaves you’re playing field in tact is core
aeration also referred to as coring, spiking, slicing or soil cultivating.
Core Aerator Services Maintenance
Core aeration is usually recommended once a year, depending on your needs two or more might be
needed. The type of grass is important to when maintenance proceeds.
Cool season grass: Kentucky Bluegrass and perennial rye grass. Core aeration time is during spring
and fall.
Warm season grass: Bermuda and zoysia grass. Core aeration time is the middle of spring to summer.
Do not aerate when grass is dormant
Recommendation
Commonwealth Sports Turf Services recommends
one extra service following your core aeration.
Using a turf sweeper to collect cores will be
distributed along areas to repair. Cores can grow
almost immediately and is a better option making
your sports turf green and healthy.

2. Deep Tine Aeration
In some cases, where the ground is getting hard from compaction, for the health of your sports turf it
may be recommended to have deep tine aeration services. If that is the case the same process of using
the turf sweeper may also be needed. The same rules apply to maintenance of aerating times for the
type of grass you have on your sports turf.
If you live in Virginia and need services for your sports turf Commonwealth Sports Turf Services we will
be glad to maintain your sports turf and help you save money in the long run.
If you would like to know more about Commonwealth Sports Turf Services we invite you to see our
demonstration. Have a happy healthy sports turf that is durable, beautiful and green.
Keith Kitchen
Owner at Commonwealth Sports Turf Services
Growing up on a working farm that feeds your family gave Keith an appreciation for the
importance of planning for growth. It was corn and peanuts then, now it sports turf.
After graduating from Virginia Tech with a Bachelors of Science in Agricultural
Economics and spending 5 years with Southern States, Keith partnered into a new business venture
overseeing natural turf maintenance for Luxury Lawns, a startup maintenance company. Continued
growth over 20 years has placed Luxury Lawns, a company Keith now owns, in the top small
businesses in the Midlothian area specializing in residential turf management, landscape design and
installation, and hardscape applications. After success in the residential turf market, Keith launched
Commonwealth Sports Turf and now manages the day to day operations of the business.
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