Our Spring Cleanup service provides your garden with the maintenance and preventative care required to thrive in the season ahead. Caring for your garden in the spring also reduces maintenance needed throughout the season, so is a wise investment because it boosts performance while reducing future maintenance needed. Spring Cleanups begin when the ground has dried and temperatures are consistently in the 50s.

Clean

Your spring garden is full of life! Bees and other beneficial insects overwinter in stems and decomposing leaves left from the last season. These critical garden inhabitants are valuable workers who need protection until spring has reliably arrived. After there have been five nights above 50°F and the ground has dried from snowmelt, we can begin cleaning-up leaves and plant debris.

We clean out your garden and weed. We also cut new garden lines as needed, to prevent turf and other ground covers from creeping into the garden bed.

Prune

When cutting back perennials in the spring, we leave varying stem lengths of 8”-24” for stem-nesting bees to lay their eggs. This also provides natural staking for the new growth and gives bees time to safely emerge from their nests.

We also hedge bushes and prune shrubs as needed.

Amend

We can also help improve the health of your garden soil by spreading compost and/or mulch. Compost provides nutrients and mulch helps seal in moisture, provides a barrier to weeds, and also adds nutrients as it breaks down. We can replace plants or sod as necessary.