There’s no feeling quite like when the days start getting longer and warmer. It’s the perfect motivation to go outside and enjoy your time in nature. However, with all of this fun also comes responsibility when it comes to your property. Enjoying the outdoors from the comfort of your yard means maintaining a healthy and thriving lawn. Sometimes, after a cold winter, this requires a bit of a helping hand. Consider this list your ultimate maintenance guide for spring cleaning your lawn.
Our Lawn Maintenance Program
As a company that has been offering lawn maintenance services for years, we have experience with what services our clients need the most for the springtime. Though many companies offer different packages and services, the list below features services that we are experienced with providing. This way, if you need a hand with any of these services and you’re based in the East Memphis area, you can contact us!
We provide these services through two main lawn maintenance packages. Our annual maintenance package includes all of the services below – and it’s an easy way to know all of your spring lawn needs are cared for. However, if you want a specific service boost, such as a mowing program or sod installation specifically, we can also provide that!
Ideal Lawn Maintenance Services
This is our list of lawn maintenance services that are absolutely essential for your spring. Though we cover all of them in our annual maintenance package, you can mix and match which of these services you want to perform yourself and which services you want taken care of for you.
Spring Seasonal Cleanups
Source: Iowa State University
When people think of “seasonal cleanups”, they usually picture leaf removal in the fall. While this is also important, it ignores the bulk of debris that is left behind after winter when the snow melts. Cold temperatures snap tree branches, dead grass clumps over new growth, and missed fall leaves form a layer of mush beneath the snow and ice.
Removing all of this debris is the first step to having a lawn that’s ready for the spring. Your lawn not only looks better afterward, but it also has more space to grow and access to the returning sunlight. Though there can be a lot to manage here, this is the most essential first step on your spring lawn checklist.
Mowing Routine
Once your grass starts growing again, maintenance needs to start so it doesn’t grow out of control. We recommend a weekly mowing routine in order to always keep up to date with your lawn. It also allows the mower to easily collect debris and perform consistent edging and trimming. Not giving a chance for overgrowth helps your lawn to always look clean-cut in between mowing sessions.
Weed Control and Fertilization
If you’re worried about how your lawn is growing, it might be worth looking into different treatments that you can apply to your lawn. After a long winter, your lawn might not have been receiving the carbon dioxide or nutrients it needed from the soil. There might also be new spring growth – weeds – competing with your lawn. There are a variety of weed control and fertilization solutions that are offered to give your lawn a spring boost. If you’re doing this yourself, make sure to look up the active ingredients in the solutions you use and try to choose solutions that will minimally impact visitors and the environment.
Spring Start Up of Irrigation System
One of nature’s natural nutrients that can also help your lawn is routine watering! After you’ve winterized your sprinklers, we can work to start them for the spring by reconnecting the water line to your piping and resetting your schedule. Our crew will also check for any possible cracks or repairs that need to be made during the winter season. Though winterization will prevent your pipes from bursting, checking for issues when the snow thaws can still keep you from having to pay more to fix problems down the line.
Lawn vs Landscape Maintenance
The following services are sometimes labeled as “landscape maintenance”. There is sometimes a gray area in what is considered a lawn treatment over a landscape treatment, or even lawn care over lawn maintenance. Often, clients looking for services will be lost looking through lawn care company pages to see who provides mowing services.
Our annual lawn maintenance package and the wide variety of services covered include some benefits for your landscape, as well. We prioritize your needs as a client, and know that most customers care less about the semantics and more about having a pristine property. That’s why we’re including the services below when talking about your spring lawn essentials – because they’re also considered essential to us.
Landscape Maintenance That Helps Your Lawn
Below are services that are included in our annual maintenance package that help your lawn and your landscape.
Tree and Shrub Pruning
Your grass isn’t the only plant that starts to thrive in the spring! Trees and shrubs also can use a shear of any winter overgrowth to help them grow stronger and healthier. Our team will trim off any excess branches or leaves and help to shape hedges in a way that’s both healthy for your lawn and aesthetically pleasing for your landscape.
Seasonal Mulching
Source: University of Tennessee
Over the winter season, wind and snow can brush away a lot of the mulch on your landscape. Whether around trees, flower beds, or landscaping or hardscaping features, missing mulch leads to new weed growth and lawn spreading. Reapplying mulch every spring benefits the appearance of your landscape, but also protects the health and appearance of your lawn by deterring weeds and erosion.
Flower Bed Maintenance
If you already have landscaping flowers (or if you’re looking into plants for the upcoming seasons), these also require maintenance to help them grow and flourish. This ranges from not just weed control and the seasonal mulching covered above, but careful edging and review to assess their health. Flowers are the star of many a landscape design, so regularly making sure their beds are well-made allows your lawn and landscape to have a massive appearance boost with simple maintenance routines.
Our Lawn Services Across East Memphis
If you’re based around us and are interested in us helping check off any of these must-dos, contact us for an estimate on our services! We offer premium lawn and landscape maintenance services that can allow you to relax and enjoy a beautiful outdoor space at the same time. Get to work and start living your spring dream today!