Creating A Lush and Welcoming Landscape

Keeping your yard and landscaping in tip-top shape is a great way some homeowners spend their spare time, but not everyone has the time to dedicate to this weekly task. When you are too busy with work and other activities to keep your yard well-maintained, you can still have a great-looking lawn. Here are some professional services you can benefit from when you hire a landscaping company to take care of your yard care.

Add Bedding Mulch

Your yard can benefit from a covering of mulch in a variety of ways. First, mulch that is added to your soil helps retain moisture in the soil to keep your plants healthier. Mulch also helps reduce weed growth in your bedding areas and prevents soil erosion. If you select a mulch made of wood or bark, it will slowly decompose and add nutrients back to the soil. Additionally mulch prevents erosion, stops the soil from compacting during heavy rains, and actually keeps the soil warmer as it holds in heat absorbed from the sun's rays.

Fortunately, many landscaping companies specialize in providing the type of mulch you want in your yard. You can choose from organic and inorganic materials to cover and protect your bedding soil. For example, you can install traditional wood chips or bark to the soil, or use straw or grass clippings. You can also choose colorful or decorative stones or river rock, or cover the soil with cocoa hulls. You can also help the environment by adding mulch made from recycled tires or plastic.

Top Dress Your Lawn

In addition to aeration and thatching your lawn, another great service your lawn will benefit from is a top dressing. During the process of top dressing your lawn, your landscaping professional applies a thin layer of soil, sand, or a mixture of soil onto your lawn.

This process helps fill in any unevenness to your lawn and helps to reduce your thatch build-up. A thick thatch build-up is bad because it will prevent moisture and nutrients from seeping into the soil and to the lawn's roots. But covering your thatch with a thin layer of soil helps to break down the thatch by promoting decomposition.

Top dressing is a great way to protect an application of new lawn seeds to your lawn's bare spots. The top dressing protects the seeds from blowing or washing away. If you follow-up your lawn's aeration with top dressing with sandy soil, it will fill in the aeration holes to help fight soil compaction.