Creating A Lush and Welcoming Landscape

Spring is on the way and after a winter of bad weather your yard will need quite a bit of work and preparation to clean up the dead growth and debris. Here are some tips to help you clean up your yard and get it ready for warm weather and spring flowers.

Maintain Your Trees

During winter you may have had some trees lose limbs or have a section of or the entire tree die from the cold or disease. Check your trees for spring growth in the form of leaf buds that will begin to emerge when the daytime temperatures warm up. Any branches of your trees that are not growing vegetation should be trimmed from your tree.

When you leave dead material on the tree, it can make your entire tree susceptible to disease and insect infestations. Call a professional tree company to trim up the tree to boost its health. They can trim dead and diseased branches and chip them into wood mulch. Then, any other branches that have fallen from the tree can be chipped as well. The wood chips makes a great ground cover and mulch for your yard that slowly decay to add beneficial nutrients back to the soil.

If you have an entire tree removed from your yard, you don't need to deal with the remaining stump: you can hire the tree removal professional to grind the stump from the soil. This conditions the soil by mixing the wood from the roots and stump base into the soil.

Maintain the Vegetation

When the snow or ice begins to melt from your yard, you will likely see a build-up of trash that has blown into your yard during winter and dead vines and grasses left over from last season. One of the first things you can do in spring is rake up any remaining leaves in your yard.

You can add the leaves directly to your yard's compost pile and mix it around for good organic brown material that has already begun to decompose. You don't need to dump the leaves into the trash and waste their benefits. The nutrients the decaying materials provide will give your soil the plant food they need to continue growing healthy vegetation in your vegetable garden and flower beds.

Use these tips to help you get your yard on its way to being ready for spring and to make room for spring growth. For more information, contact local professionals like those found at Arborcare Tree Service.