Creating A Lush and Welcoming Landscape

With homeownership comes a great deal of responsibilities — both with the financial responsibility of home ownership and with the responsibility about keeping up your home's upkeep. You often won't have the proper tools, equipment, or skills to make some of the updates your yard needs. Here are three tasks that you might need a professional landscaper to work for you on your home's yard to help your yard look professional and to help keep its investment intact.

Lawn Care

Your lawn can make up a large part of your front and back yards, but you will want it to look as healthy and well-kept as possible to help boost the appearance and value of your home. A season without weed maintenance can put your lawn at risk of getting choked out by crabgrass and other noxious weeds.

Hire a professional lawn maintenance service to take care of all your lawn's needs, including applying fertilizers to it throughout the season to give it the best chance for healthy growth all season. Your lawn professional can also aerate the lawn in the spring, when needed, and remove your lawn thatch if it has become too thick for adequate moisture and fertilizer penetration. Additionally, your weekly mowing will be taken care of by your lawn care company so its edges are clean and trimmed to give your home a clean-cut look.

Soil Grading

A common error many homeowners make to their home's landscaping is to level the soil around the outside perimeter of their home. Because this area of soil and its slope or lack of slope can allow moisture to either flow toward or away from your home, you need to make sure it is appropriately sloped to prevent basement moisture problems.

Whether your home has a bare soil bedding area full of bushes and plants or one that is covered in mulch, the ground needs to slope away from your home to best manage water runoff. Talk to your landscaper about supplementing this site with additional soil so it has a proper slope for water runoff.

Bedding Maintenance

Once you add the needed soil to create slope to the perimeter bedding areas, your professional landscaper can add a mulch or decorative rock to cover the soil which will add extra water protection to your home's foundation. Using this type of mulch material adds a rich color to a previously dry soil to boost the color scheme of your front yard. Mulch also protects your bedding plants by adding an extra barrier to the soil to keep the moisture in the soil instead of evaporating as easily.