What are the Advantages of Doing a Spring Yard Cleanup?

March is when a lot of us start our once-a-year deep cleaning of our home. This could mean making a major home declutter or running the vacuum over everything twice.

This year, consider adding “spring yard clean-up” to your spring-cleaning routine. There are many reasons you would want to do this — and not just to get your mower prepped for the warm months.

When To Clean-Up the Yard in the Spring

Now is an ideal time to book a spring yard clean-up. The grass and other plants have not yet kicked into full growth, and the pests are not yet at their peak.

So, you can start taking care of your lawn before there is a problem. Here’s just nine of the countless advantages of having a professional clean-up done.

Say Goodbye to Debris

Winter winds and thick winter ice can cause a flurry of havoc in your yard. Trees and shrubs covered with ice can lose branches. Snow mold can also occur with heavy snow, and you generally won’t see it until spring.

If some limbs or branches fell, or if there are twigs and dead leaves leftover from the fall, then your lawn care technicians will take care of those.

You might be wondering, aren’t dead leaves good mulch? They are — but leaves can get too dense, creating micro-environments for diseases including mold, mildew or fungi, or preventing sunlight from reaching a lawn’s roots. A lot of the pests are also drawn to cool, dark areas.

Your lawn care techs will also provide your lawn with a good thatching. As grass naturally cycles and the blades die off, they fall back into the earth and feed it. But when there is too much of that thatch build-up, sure enough, it smothers your grass. Thatching your lawn provides it with space to breathe — quite literally.

Get All Your Shopping Needs In One Place

Renting or purchasing all the equipment and materials to do a thorough spring yard clean-up can cost a good deal. Getting a professional company in there will be cheaper than doing it yourself, and you won’t even have to do anything! No hauling bags of mulch anymore. No more searching the hardware store aisles for just the right fertilizer. If you want to be able to handle everything your yard needs in one easy phone call, you can turn to a crew of technicians with years of experience as well as professional licensing.

Your Yard Is Set Up for Success

When the heat and pests of summer arrive, your yard will have a better chance of standing up to them if you have treated it well in spring. Nothing in life is a sure bet, but taking good care of your yard now is only adding to its odds of thriving in the future, figures show.

Keep Trees Safe and Healthy

Dead or injured branches on trees are unattractive and are dangerous to both property and people if they fall. When limbs fall, they can cause damage to homes, cars and people. A professional tree and shrub trim or prune is a great line item to add to your spring yard clean-up list. It maintains your trees to be healthy, pretty and headache free.

Mulch Correctly

Note that some people use the dead leaves that their trees naturally produce as a mulch for the garden, as well.

Though beneficial, if you don’t pass the leaves through a mulches, pile them on too think or (gasp) create a “mulch volcano,” you’re not really doing your yard any favors.

Mulch comes in a variety of different styles, even stones, and certain types may be better for your space than others. Do not hesitate to ask your lawn care contractor about which mulch or stones would suit your needs!

Get Rid of Gross Gutters

If you have ever cleaned out a gutter, you know how easily and rapidly you can accumulate dense black sludge. That’s because organic matter evolves into a more broken-down material over time.

And while this stuff is some primo fertilizer for your garden topsoil, it definitely doesn’t belong in your gutters, where it could end up clogging them and keeping water from flowing through.

Cleaning out the gross and spraying down gutters with the garden hose is grueling work, necessitating multiple trips up and down a ladder. Why not leave it to the yard clean-up crew?

Say Good Riddance to Weeds

With a good pre-emergent, the selective herbicide will kill of the weeds for good before they are able to sprout up, without causing harm to your other plants and grass as well.

Selective herbicides means only target only unwanted plants; pre-emergent is because they target weeds before they grow.

There are also post-emergent weeds: for weeds that show up later in the season.

Enjoy A Thicker, Lusher Lawn

This is actually one of our very best spring yard clean-up tips because it’s a twofer.

Aeration and overseeding are a pair of popular lawn applications that pair well together, and for good reason.

Aerating breaks up the soil so water, air, nutrients and sunlight can more easily reach grassroots, while overseeding fills in thin or worn spots in a lawn with minimal effort or mess.

And if overseeding follows aeration, the tiny holes formed from the aeration process make it easier for the turfgrass seeds to establish in your lawn!

Get Advice for the Future

As the lawn-care guys prepare your land for spring, they can make recommendations, spot things that you can do as the summer and fall roll around. They may also let you know of any areas of difficulty. For example, if water collects on your property, it should not stick around as a mosquito paradise.

Schedule Your Spring Yard Clean-Up with ASAP Sands Outdoor Services

Contact us today and there will be an army of licensed professionals at your door to handle the spring clean-up.

ASAP Sands Outdoor Services is happy to provide a spring yard clean-up service that includes all the way from gutter cleaning to aeration and overseeding, to improving the chances of it being a successful year for yours.

Give us a call at 505-293-4014 or reach us here online. Want more lawn care advice and tips? Take a look at our roundup below to check out articles about all sorts of fun stuff.