Lawn care, lawn maintenance, lawn mowing, landscape maintenance, landscape service – aren’t these all the same things? Well, no. 

Let’s start with mowing. It seems to be what most people think of when taking care of the lawn. Mowing is an essential job. It allows the lawn to breathe and have new growth. But without expert services, mowing can become a chore, something you try to fit into your busy schedule if and when there’s time. Eventually, this leaves your lawn in poor health.

As performed by EKG Lawn Services, lawn care services, and lawn maintenance can take a lawn from needing serious help to overall health and beauty. When you call them for a consultation, they survey your lawn, check the growth, test the soil, and learn about the watering and feeding of your lawn. Then, they will create a care and maintenance routine that fits the needs of your lawn and works with your overall landscaping.

Creating a healthy lawn

A lawn with brown areas might be signaling an underlying problem. Thatching or soil compaction is a relatively common problem in which root and plant material create an almost impenetrable layer between plants and nutrients. It can be caused by activities on the lawn or heavy snow that leaves snow mold and compressed grass and soil behind.

Snow mold and other diseases will have to be removed from your lawn so it can return to health. But removing the diseased areas can leave bare patches, brown grass, or even holes. 

Aeration and overseeding are the most common fix for thatching and soil compaction problems. Individual lawns need individual solutions, but creating new space for nutrients to reach the roots of your grass and seed placement to encourage new growth will give your lawn a needed boost.

Benefits

Bringing a lawn or landscape to full beauty and health is no small chore. There is work involved that includes mowing, trimming, edging, and blowing. Each task is essential for keeping your lawn and landscape in its perfect manicured condition. 

You enjoy the sight and smell of your fresh-cut grass, and your bare feet can hardly wait to step out of their uncomfortable shoes and wander across the beautiful green carpet on your lawn. So go ahead; your lawn is ready.

Fertilizing is not the most pleasant task, but it is necessary for a healthy lawn. And your grass is not the only place that benefits from fertilization – your flower beds, hedges, trees, and other shrubberies also benefit from the nutrients spread across your landscape.

Seasonal cleanups are a necessary part of care for your landscape and your lawns. Removing windblown trash, debris from trees, bushes, hedges, and other plants, and raking the area to get as much waste out of the lawn as possible is a necessary chore, one that a homeowner might not be able to perform. EKG Lawn Services makes it a regular part of their lawn and landscape maintenance.

Landscaping can add detail and interest to your lawns by creating spaces for flowers, flowering bushes, and ornamental plants. Choosing colors to contrast with each other and with the color of your house can turn your house into a piece of art.

Planning raised beds or adding designed plant areas to your property can create interest and add to the overall health of your landscape. Choosing flowers that will pop with color and mixing them with plants that control pests naturally is a big plus to any landscape.

Adding decorative elements, mulch, and exciting features like fountains and rocks will make your lawns and yards a much more personal space. In addition, creating a space that’s uniquely yours will help your home stand out if you ever choose to sell.

Extending a home’s space by creating and maintaining an outdoor living area will give you more than a yard. This lovely space will give you and your family space to have company and an outdoor cooking area to host the barbecues you love. Expand your hardscaping to an area to relax in the evenings with kids and friends, create gooey yumminess sandwiches in a fire pit area, and bring warmth to the chilliest fall evenings.

Trees and shrubs

Planting and maintaining trees and shrubs is environmentally healthy for your home and the very air we breathe. While planting flowers and adding rocks might seem frivolous, it increases the property’s value, and the trees can make a difference in the need for heating and cooling the house and yards.

If you want to add some privacy to your property, hedges can be a good, natural way to accent your other plants. Your hedge may need a little time to reach fullness, but keeping it trimmed will encourage the growth to thicken faster instead of reaching for the sky. 

You can add some pops of originality by creating and maintaining topiaries. You’ve seen these at botanical gardens and amusement parks, but trimming the correct type of shrub into a simple ball can create more interest.

Pruning and trimming trees that live on your property is essential. A stiff breeze can loosen twigs, small branches, and leaves to land on your grassy areas. A snowstorm can leave branches coated with heavy snow and ice, resulting in branches that break and hang in place or snap off entirely and can do damage to you, your home, or your property. Those branches will need to be removed safely, another service of EKG.

Regular maintenance

Once your lawn is in its best health and your landscape is thriving with exciting features and space for family and friends, it will need to be maintained regularly. You work. Other family members work. Home time should be relaxation time. If maintenance isn’t a regular activity, problems can creep in before you know it. Let EKG Lawn Services maintain your lawns and landscape and keep them fresh and attractive for you and your home.