Landscaping Harwich MA, Landscape Maintenance, Landscapers

What does a typical landscape season look like on Cape Cod?

We start the season with Spring cleanups, which focus on cleaning and weeding your planting beds as needed, and then re-edging the beds to prepare for mulch (by request). It is also important that pruning or thinning of herbaceous plantings, as well as deadwood removal be taken care of at this time. In the Spring, plants are coming out of dormancy and will respond very well to this treatment. We finish your cleanup by dethatching all the lawn areas and blowing off any debris.

Mulching follows shortly after the cleanup and is applied to all planting beds at a depth of no more than 2”, with extra care taken to avoid “mulch mounding” around the base of plantings; this can cause rotting to occur. Regular mulching of planting beds aids in moisture retention and keeps root systems cool and insulated during hot summer months.

Throughout the Summer season (a.k.a. the “growing” season), a couple of visits are usually recommended to perform regular pruning and trimming of plants, weeding, cleaning of beds, and checking on overall landscape health.

Fall cleanups signify the season’s end with removal of leaves and debris from all lawn and planting bed areas, cleaning of first floor gutters as needed, and removal of deadwood from perennials. The start of this service varies year-to-year depending on temperature and when the leaves begin to drop. On average, we begin at the end of November. A good fall cleanup not only gets your property in shape and ready for winter, but also eliminates damage caused by leaves left decaying upon lawn areas.