Lawn Care Tips for Spring
Spring gives us hope that winter is finally in the review mirror. We emerge from indoors as the weather begins to warm up, snow melts, and plants begin to bloom. Suddenly you find yourself excited to be outside again as you assess your home’s exterior needs after a long winter. We asked our landscape team for their best spring tips created this helpful list:
Lawn Care Tips
Time your crabgrass control with the forsythia blooms, not necessarily by the calendar.
Use sharp blades on your mower, and don’t cut the grass too short this early.
Snow mold in lawns; hand-rake out areas or patches of “dead” and matted grass that has a web of white/pinkish mold.* Determine your soil ph for problematic lawns so adjustments can be made this season.
Dethatch now for a healthy summer lawn! Dethatching removes a thick layer of decaying plant material so air, water, nutrients, and fertilizer can reach the soil better, plus your lawn can drain more effectively.
Garden Care Tips
Cut down your ornamental grasses before they start coming up.
Apply preen now while forsythia is blooming.
Show your soil some love! Mulch your perennials before they come up.
Wait to prune flowering shrubs until after they’re done flowering!
April is an excellent time to straighten and level our private hedges- if you’ve been meaning to get around to managing deciduous hedges, burning bushes, etc. now is the time to cut them back.
It is a great time, in general, to move shrubs and perennials around in the garden. The ground is soft and the weeds are already getting a head start so removing weeds and invasive plants is a great way to get ahead.