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Does anyone know where I might be able to get over-shoes with spikes on the bottom for aerating the lawn? Or even what they're called? (I suspect that the average Homebase / B&Q phone answerer won't have a clue what I'm talking about....)

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Try moles - I was cursing them over winter when my lawn was ruined by them but now we've started the regular mowing they've done a runner and I think I can see the benefits of all the aerating they've done :wink:

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Wow - this is just what we need, and I had NO idea that aerating shoes existed!

 

We've got a terribly soggy lawn due to it being compacted underneath (I think it's got clay underneath) and by the time I get half way round with the gardening fork my arms have gone limp and I have to give up!

 

Will be ordering some of these!

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I have an aerator on a roller, so you just push it by hand. I can't think how to explain it, like pushing a carpet sweeper! :? I think I got it in Argos, but really can't remember.

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Thanks Deb Dav, but I think Shires must have stopped doing them, as this link doesn't work any more!

 

I did try the google list (thanks chicken on a mission) but I'm really put off by the fact that if you go mail order, the postage costs virtually the same as the product!

 

Our neighbour said he had a pair he could lend me, but then he couldn't find them!

 

I phoned round our local garden centres, but they said they don't do them, and also seemed to think they didn't work anyway!

 

I did check out argos (there was a tempting argos link from google - very cheap) - but it seems they no longer do them! I tried to phone Argos and ask, but the multiple layered telephone push-a-number system never offered me any relevant options (ie speak to a real live person), and finally I gave up.

 

Is it worth persisting? Do they work??

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get a couple of short planks - bang some big nails through - tie to your shoe with string - Bob's your uncle...

 

(for extra security glue a piece of hardboard over the nail-tops to stop them pushing back through...)

 

cost - pennies!!

 

Phil 8)

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