Winterize Landscaping Tacoma

Proper landscaping maintenances require a gardener to complete all different tasks in every different season. Plantings are often done in springs seasons, all weeding and all watering in the summers, and harvestings in the falls. Call us today and get a free quote!

Autumns are also the times to prepare your landscaping for winter. Some locations in Washington will rarely see the cold, harsh winter, but there should be tasks the landscaping maintenance expert will certainly recommend for the time of year.

Winter Lawn Preparations

The landscaping maintenance professional will recommend fertilizer in fall. Winter fertilizations with the Northwest grass variety is certainly a most important fertilizer of the year. The root will store and absorb the fertilizer nutrients so they can be available in spring for that good healthy push. From October to mid-November is that best window before freezing weather. When the ground has frozen, you may consider fertilizing until spring. Do make sure to use a fertilizer with lower nitrogen contents and high potassium contents than those utilized in summer months.

You may want your lawns mowed to approximately 1.5 inches during fall and winter. (In Washington, the landscaping maintenance will often involve waiting for lawns to dry out in order for you to actually cut it.) Lower heights of the lawns will allow moistures to escape plus avoid the many common lawn disease associated with excessive moistures.

Rake leaves as well as other debris from lawns in order to prevent molds from settling during wet Portland winters and causing damages to your lawns.

Caring for Plants that don't go Dormant

Hollies, Azaleas, and popular North-west plants will stay green throughout winters; plants keep photosynthesizing the sunlight into energies throughout years. For the type of plants, continue the basic landscaping maintenances like trimming the back branches that will grow across one another and ensure that every specimen will get enough water (although this is not one of the common problems when landscaping in Washington). If you will see insect infestation on the plants that grow all year-round, try spraying the plants with the horticultural oil instead of using the toxic pesticides. If you are completely unsure of cause of disease or the infestation, do contact your local garden centers or landscape contractors to assist by identifying the appropriate products to use.

Testing and Amending Soil

Fall is one good time to determine whether your soils need amendment. You may take your soils sample to nearby universities or nurseries to test. Washingtonian soil is often riddled with clays, which limit drainages and may drown some of the species. When soil test results are in hand, you will have a better understand on how to add composts or the other natural solution to improve soil qualities.

The Old Deadhead Blooms

The maintenance for hydrangeas and the other flowering plants will involve deadheading the flowers once done blooming. Please avoid over-pruning the flowering plants and the shrubs; in a lot of cases, all you will need is to do remove remnants of the flowers. There are a lot of online resources that are available that will assist you when caring of your plants.

The Gentle Pruning

The Washingtonian landscaping maintenance pros will wince at victims of over-pruning. Homeowners and the landscaping workers will simply shear plants with the electrical clippers, with little thought to the extreme pruning and how it will affect flow of nutrient and energies to the plants. Please avoid hacking away carelessly. Do wait until the herbaceous perennial turns brown. Then, do prune gently in order to remove the crossed branches as well as open up spaces at heart of the plants. Some plant have the special pruning rules, so it will make sense to consult Portland landscaping maintenance experts when you are not quite sure how you will prune certain species. The excessive shearing of the plants in fall can remove flower buds waiting to bloom in spring.

The Mulch

You've cleaned the beds, the deadheaded and pruned, now it is time to mulch. Basically, the mulch is one layer of the organic material that will protect bare soil between the plants. Think of the mulch as one layer of the insulation for soil – it will even out the soil temperature during winters. It will also minimizes the weed growth and will make it pulling weeds easier when they appear. Finally, the mulch will add a layer of the nutrients-rich humus, making top layers of soils airy and very light. When you landscape Washingtonian yards, it is smart for the homeowners to always save the dry leaves, the grass clippings and the other natural detritus in order to serve as mulch. If not, you may purchase the mulch from the local landscaping maintenance companies.

The Winterized Irrigation System

In addition to preparing the flora for winters, you will also need irrigation system preparations for colder temperature. When the temperatures drop below usual freezing, the water left in sprinklers or irrigation systems will certainly expand. This may cause major damages and must be avoided at all cost. Indeed, the costs of repairing harms to irrigation system will often be very high! It's more affordable to call a Portland landscaping maintenances crew so they can “blow out” the irrigation systems to removing the lingering waters.

The winterization technique shall prepare your yards for the explosion of new growths and many a beautiful blossom once spring season rolls around. Get your landscaping job done today. Give us a call and get a free quote.

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