Spring & Fall Clean Up

March is the perfect time to schedule a spring yard clean-up service. The grass and other plants haven’t started growing in earnest, and the pests are not out in full swing. Therefore, you can tackle protecting and nourishing your yard before problems ever arise. Here are just nine of the many benefits that come with having a professional clean-up performed.

 Say Goodbye To Debris

Winter winds and heavy winter ice can wreak havoc on your yard in many forms. When ice clings to trees and shrubs, they can lose branches. Heavy snows can foster snow mold, and you likely won’t notice it until spring arrives. Your lawn care technicians will remove fallen branches, twigs, and dead leaves leftover from fall. You may be wondering: aren’t dead leaves good mulch? Indeed they are, but too often, the leaves are too thick, and this creates micro-environments where diseases like mold, mildew, and fungi thrive. Many pests are also attracted to dank, dark places. Your lawn care techs will also give your lawn good thatching. As grass goes through its natural cycle and the blades die off, they fall back into the soil and provide nutrients. When there’s too much of this thatch build-up, however, it smothers your grass. Thatching your lawn gives it room to breathe – literally.

 Enjoy A One-Stop-Shop Experience

Renting or buying all the equipment and materials needed for a proper spring yard clean-up can be pricey. Hiring a professional company is more cost-effective, and you won’t have to lift a finger. No more lugging bags of mulch. No more combing the aisles of the hardware store for the ideal fertilizer. With a simple phone call, you can have all of your yard’s needs taken care of by a team of technicians who have years of experience and professional licensing.

 Your Yard Is Ready For Longterm Success

When the heat and pests of summer arrive, your yard will stand a better chance against them if you’ve taken proper care of it in spring. While nothing in life is a guarantee, taking good care of your yard now only increases the likelihood of it thriving later.

Your Yard Is Ready For Longterm Success

When trees have dead or dying branches, they look unsightly and pose a safety risk. When branches fall, they can damage homes, vehicles, and people. Having a professional trim and prune your trees and shrubs is an excellent item to add to your spring yard clean-up checklist. It keeps your trees healthy, shapely and eliminates future headaches.

Mulch Correctly

As mentioned above, some people rely on the dead leaves naturally produced by their trees as mulch for their garden. While this can be beneficial, if you don’t run the leaves through a mulcher, apply too thick of a layer, or create a “mulch volcano,” you aren’t really doing your yard any favors. There are many different forms of mulch, including stones, and some may be better suited than others, depending on your unique situation. Don’t be afraid to ask your lawn care professional about which type of mulch or stones are best for you!

 Get Rid Of Gross Gutters

If you’ve ever cleaned a gutter, you know how easy and quickly dark black sludge can build up. This is caused by organic material breaking down over time. While this stuff is a great fertilizer for your garden topsoil, it certainly doesn’t belong in your gutters, where it can clog them and prevent proper water flow. Digging out the yuck and flushing gutters with the garden hose is exhausting work that requires many trips up and down a ladder.  Why not let your yard clean-up crew handle it?

 Say Good Riddance To Weeds

Applying a solid pre-emergent, the selective herbicide will safely and effectively eliminate weeds before they have a chance to sprout while at the same time leaving your other plants and grass unharmed. Selective herbicides mean they only target the undesired plants, and pre-emergent, as you might have surmised, means weeds are targeted before growing. There are also post-emergent weeds for weeds that crop up later in the season.

Enjoy A Thicker, Lusher Lawn

This dual application is truly one of the best spring yard clean-up tips we can offer. Aeration and overseeding are two common lawn applications that go hand-in-hand and for a good reason. Aeration opens up the soil so that water, air, nutrients, and sunlight can find their way to grassroots more easily, and overseeding quickly and efficiently fills in thinning or bare patches of grass. And when overseeding is done after aeration, the tiny holes created by aeration allow the turfgrass seeds to more easily take root in your lawn.

Get Advice For The Future

As your lawn care crew preps your yard for spring, they can make

 recommendations and point out things you can do as summer and fall come. They can also alert you to any problem areas. For instance, if you’ve got water pooling on your property, this could be a mosquito haven later on.

 Allows your lawn to breathe and stay healthy.

Leaves covering your grass will deprive it of the air and sun that it needs to stay healthy. If you want your grass to thrive and still grow in the cooler months, you can’t deprive it of the sunlight it needs. Your grass stores that energy in its roots. Your grass will thank you over the fall and into spring if those leaves aren’t on your lawn. Removing leaves and twigs from your lawn is one of the best things you can do for it.

Keeps your lawn healthy during winter.

Removing leaves from your lawn is important in keeping your lawn healthy in the fall, but also preparing it for the winter. If it snows in the winter, and you have leaves on your lawn, the water/snow will not be able to drain. Your lawn needs that air circulation to survive the cold months. If you leave wet leaves on your lawn, this can create a breeding ground for mold or fungus. Keep your lawn clean during the winter and it will help growth when the weather warms up in the spring!

Stops the spread of fungi and other diseases.

Leaf clutter can cause potential damage to your lawn such as diseases, mold, and fungus. If the leaves on your lawn keep in moisture from rain, dew, or even snow, there is the possibility of mold and fungus growing. Not only would this be harmful to your lawn but could be harmful to you too. If you walk through moldy leaves, you could be kicking up spores into the air around you. But don’t worry, removing those leaves will prevent that from happening!

Limits rodents and insects.

In the cooler months, insects and rodents look for homes to stay warm in. You know what is perfect for them? Those leaves and twigs that are building up on your lawn. If you get rid of all that clutter, then they won’t be able to live on your property. No one wants to be walking through leaves and suddenly get bitten by some sort of rodent. Plus, if they make a home of your yard, what is stopping them from coming into your door? So, get rid of those leaves!

Your yard will look good.

Similar to having that lush, manicured lawn during the warmer months, cleaning the leaves off your lawn will give you that same feeling in the cooler months. You still want your property to be the best looking on the block. Cleaning all that clutter and debris will keep your yard looking beautiful. The first thing a person will notice in the fall is how much leaves you have on your lawn.