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Spring Yard Cleaning
Spring yard cleaning is a crucial process to revitalize your property after a long winter. It involves various tasks to prepare your lawn and landscape for the upcoming season.
Fall Yard Cleaning
Fall is the ideal season to prepare your lawn for the chilly months ahead. Put in the time to clean up your yard this fall, and you’ll be greeted by a lush, green lawn come springtime.
Pruning
Pruning is the practice of selectively removing parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, leaves, blooms, or roots. It can be applied to both woody plants, like trees and shrubs, and soft-tissue plants, like herbs. The goal of pruning is to improve the plant’s structure, direct healthy growth, and remove unwanted parts.
Trimming
Trimming grass, also known as lawn edging, is a landscaping practice that creates crisp lines and protects flower beds from weeds. It involves cutting directly into the lawn to create a border around the grass. Edging is important because it establishes a natural barrier that can help with weed control and makes lawn maintenance easier.
Edging
Edging is an essential part of yard cleaning, especially in the spring and fall seasons. It involves cutting clean lawn edges to create a neat and tidy appearance.
Weeding
Weeding gardening is a crucial part of maintaining a healthy and beautiful garden. Weeding therapy, as mentioned in the article, is not only beneficial for the garden but also for the gardener. It allows one to get rid of plant thugs that are stealing nutrients, water, and space from non-weed plants while also providing an opportunity to work through problems and think about new ideas.
Mulching
Mulching is one of the simplest and most beneficial practices you can use in the garden. Mulch is a protective layer of material spread on top of the soil, which can be either organic (such as grass clippings, straw, bark chips) or inorganic (such as stones, brick chips, plastic). Both types of mulches have numerous benefits.
Mulch helps conserve and extend available water, protects the soil from erosion, reduces competition by suppressing weeds, moderates temperature extremes, and acts as a barrier or visible marker of gardening beds to limit damage by landscape maintenance equipment. However, it’s important to understand when, what type, and how much mulch to spread, as spreading too much mulch can be damaging to trees and plants.
Lawn Areation with over seeding
You want the plugs pulled out of the lawn, because that’s where the benefits happen, you’re creating space for the water, roots, and air to get into the soil. By simply poking holes in the ground, you’re creating more soil compaction.
- Reduces your dependency on water. Why spend more money watering your lawn than you have to?
- Aerating encourages your roots to grow deeper. Within two weeks of aerating, you’ll notice that the holes left by the aerator start to fill up with plant roots. These roots are growing thicker and deeper.
- Lawn aerator holes help to absorb water. Rather than water having to start penetrating from the surface, it can start penetrating from one to 2 ½ inches below the surface. Not only will the holes made by the aerator hold the water, but they will also help the water to sink 2 inches deeper into the soil.
- It encourages thicker turf. As your roots grow down, your grass will grow quicker and thicker, creating a thicker turf.
- Using a lawn aerator helps build organic material in the soil. Compacted soil just doesn’t have nearly as much organic material in it.
- Reduces soil compaction. Aerating also reduces compaction on the roots.
- Your lawn stays greener because it doesn’t need as much water to stay green, and because deeper roots have more access to nutrients.
- Aerating adds a layer of top-dressing to your lawn. Aerating your lawn is like giving it top-dressing. This reason alone makes me want to aerate my lawn twice a year.
- Lawn aeration reduces runoff. If you’ve ever watered your lawn, only to see it all run off into the street, you know what I’m talking about. When you aerate your lawn, the water goes into the ground and not just over the top of it.
- Lawn aeration, as the name implies, makes it easier for your lawn to breathe. Your lawn can more readily exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the environment when you aerate it.
Irrigation
- Unexplained dry patches or overly wet areas in your lawn
- Sprinkler heads not popping up or retracting properly
- Uneven watering or inconsistent spray patterns
- Noticeable increase in water bills without apparent cause
- Your system is more than a few years old and hasn’t had a check-up recently
Don’t ignore these signs. Neglect could lead to significant damage and costly repairs. Call D&MLandscaping today for comprehensive irrigation system services.
