Seasonal
Spring and Fall Yard Clean-up
Leaves, thatch, fallen sticks and winter damage cleared out of the beds and off the turf at both ends of the Kansas season.
Chapter 01
Spring: getting the winter off it
By March a lawn has spent months under matted leaves, broken sticks and whatever the wind delivered. Underneath that the turf has been sitting wet and flat, and the beds have collapsed growth in them that is now holding moisture against crowns.
The spring visit clears all of it. Leaves and debris off the turf, winter damage out of the beds, snapped limbs picked up, and the dead material that has matted down over the crowns pulled off so light and air get to the plant.
River rock foundation bed with a row of young arborvitae and ornamental grasses against maintained turf
Autumn: why leaving the leaves costs you the spring
A layer of wet leaves left on a lawn over a Kansas winter does real damage. It blocks light from grass that is still photosynthesising in the mild spells, holds moisture against the crowns, and creates the conditions for snow mould to show up as matted grey patches when the snow goes.
Beds have the same problem in a different form. Fallen leaves packed in among perennials rot rather than break down cleanly, and the crowns underneath them rot with them.
Chapter 03
Beds and turf get cleaned differently
Turf wants everything off it. Beds do not. Some perennials are better left standing through the winter, because the top growth protects the crown and the seed heads feed birds. Others collapse into a wet mass and need cutting back before they do.
Knowing which is which is most of the skill in an autumn clean up, and it is the difference between a bed that sleeps and a bed that rots.
It is what makes the next service worth buying
A clean up is not an end in itself. It is the step that makes everything after it work. Overseeding into a matted lawn is wasted seed. A pre emergent application over a layer of leaf litter never reaches the soil it is supposed to be sealing.
So the clean ups are scheduled around the rest of the programme rather than as an unrelated tidy up.
Beds and turf cleared at both ends of the season, so the next service is worth paying for.
Seasonal
Clean ups get scheduled around the rest of the programme
Seeding into a matted lawn, or sealing a surface that is still under leaf litter, wastes the application. The clean up is what makes the next visit worth paying for.
Call the Auburn office on (785) 256-7300, or request a consultation and someone will come and walk the property with you.