Spring Clean Up
Refresh Your Landscape with a Professional Spring Clean Up
After a long Oneonta winter, your landscape needs a fresh start. Lingering leaves, broken twigs, and compacted soil can inhibit new growth and detract from your property’s potential. Our spring clean-up service is a thorough, transformative process designed to address these issues and invigorate your outdoor space. We go beyond a simple raking to deliver a detailed rejuvenation that readies your lawn and gardens for robust health and stunning visual appeal throughout the summer and fall.
Creating Definition: Professional Bed Edging
The first step to creating a truly manicured landscape is establishing clean, sharp lines. Our professional edging of garden and flower beds creates a distinct and dramatic separation between your lawn and planting areas. Using specialized equipment, we cut a deep, clean edge that defines the space with a crispness that is impossible to achieve with a standard string trimmer. This service offers immediate and powerful benefits:
Aesthetic Appeal: A sharp edge provides a professional, high-end look that makes your entire landscape appear more organized and intentional.
Functional Barrier: A properly deep edge acts as a physical barrier, helping to prevent aggressive turfgrass from creeping into your garden beds and competing with your shrubs and perennials for resources.
Mulch Containment: The defined trench created by edging effectively contains your mulch, preventing it from spilling onto the lawn during heavy rains and keeping the entire area neat and tidy.
The Protective Blanket: Premium Mulching
Applying a fresh layer of high-quality mulch is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your plants as we head into the summer heat. It is both a finishing aesthetic touch and a horticultural necessity. Our team will apply a premium, double-shredded bark mulch to all of your garden beds at the optimal depth, ensuring it is thick enough to be effective without smothering your plants’ root systems. The benefits are extensive:
Moisture Retention: Mulch acts as a protective blanket, significantly reducing water evaporation from the soil. This means you'll need to water less often, and your plants will have access to more consistent moisture during dry spells.
Weed Suppression: A proper layer of mulch blocks sunlight from reaching the soil surface, preventing thousands of dormant weed seeds from germinating and dramatically reducing the need for weeding all summer long.
Soil Temperature Regulation: Mulch insulates the soil, keeping it cooler during hot summer days and protecting delicate plant roots from extreme temperature fluctuations.
Improved Soil Health: As the organic mulch naturally decomposes, it adds vital nutrients and organic matter back into the soil, improving its structure and fertility over time.
Proactive Defense: Timely Pre-Emergent Treatment
The key to a weed-free landscape is preventing weeds before they even start. As part of our comprehensive clean-up, we apply a timely pre-emergent treatment to all mulched beds. This professional-grade application creates an invisible barrier in the top layer of soil that stops weed seeds, especially aggressive summer annuals like crabgrass, from successfully germinating. Applying this treatment in the spring is a proactive strategy that saves you from the frustrating, season-long battle of pulling and spraying weeds that have already taken root. It is the smartest way to ensure your pristine, mulched beds stay that way.
