Fall Clean Up
Prepare for Autumn with a Professional Fall Clean Up
As the vibrant greens of summer give way to the brilliant colors of autumn, it’s time to prepare your landscape for the coming dormant season. Our comprehensive fall clean-up service is designed to keep your property tidy and protect the health of your lawn and gardens. We provide essential leaf-blowing and plant cut-back services, ensuring your property looks clean and manicured throughout the fall while safeguarding it for a healthy return next spring.
A fall clean-up is one of the most critical services for the long-term health and vitality of your landscape, especially in preparation for a challenging Central New York winter. More than just a cosmetic tidying, this service is a crucial investment in preventing winter damage, controlling pests and diseases, and ensuring a faster, healthier green-up when spring arrives. By properly putting your landscape to bed, we help protect the investments you’ve made in your lawn and gardens all year long.
Protecting Your Lawn: Comprehensive Leaf Removal
As autumn leaves begin to fall, they create a beautiful but potentially damaging blanket over your property. While charming at first, this layer of leaves can cause significant harm to the turfgrass below if not removed before winter. Our service includes the thorough blowing of leaves from all maintained areas—including lawns, garden beds, patios, walkways, and driveways.
The benefits of professional leaf removal are critical for lawn health:
Prevents Lawn Suffocation: A thick, matted layer of wet leaves blocks essential sunlight and air from reaching the turf. This suffocates the grass, weakening it significantly as it heads into winter dormancy.
Reduces Risk of Disease: The dark, damp environment created by leaf cover is the perfect breeding ground for fungal lawn diseases like snow mold. Snow mold develops under the snow on top of wet, unraked leaves, leaving behind unsightly and damaged patches of grass in the spring.
Discourages Pests and Rodents: Pests and rodents often seek shelter from the cold in a thick layer of leaves, potentially causing further damage to your lawn and property over the winter.
Improves Safety and Aesthetics: Removing slippery wet leaves from hardscapes makes your property safer for walking, while a clean, leaf-free lawn maintains a crisp, cared-for appearance deep into the fall season.
Putting Gardens to Bed: Perennial & Annual Cut-Back
As the growing season ends, proper garden care is essential for preventing the spread of disease and ensuring vigorous growth next year. Our clean-up service includes the cut-back of annuals and perennials that have completed their life cycle or are entering dormancy.
This horticultural practice is vital for several reasons:
Disease and Pest Removal: Dead plant foliage and stems can harbor fungal spores (like powdery mildew) and the eggs of harmful insects. By cutting back and removing this material in the fall, we are effectively discarding next year's pest and disease problems before they have a chance to overwinter in your garden.
Promotes a Tidy Appearance: Cutting back spent plants eliminates the messy look of collapsed, decaying foliage, giving your garden beds a clean and orderly appearance throughout the winter months.
Encourages Healthy Spring Growth: For many perennials, cutting back the foliage in the fall allows the plant to direct all of its energy stores into its root system. This helps the plant survive the winter and leads to stronger, more robust growth as soon as the weather warms in the spring.
Our knowledgeable team understands which plants benefit from being cut back and which—like certain ornamental grasses or seed-bearing flowers—can be left to provide visual interest and a food source for birds during the winter, ensuring the right approach for a healthy and beautiful landscape.
