What’s the Difference between Lawn Care and Landscape Maintenance

A lawn care company will mow, fertilize, replace sod, apply pesticides and seed. Landscaping, however, can be defined as anything done to an outdoor space whether planting, building or rearranging.

What do they mean and why are they important?

Landscape Maintenance Services

Just like a work of art, your landscape designers and creators are artists who put the beauty on your landscape canvas. If you take pride in your yard and want it to look great, landscaping services may be for you.

It doesn’t actually fix what might be fundamentally wrong with your yard. Should you want to do some of the landscaping work yourself, many landscaping companies offer piecemeal services rather than a comprehensive program.

Design – Think of this service as interior decorating outside. The design adds curb appeal and transforms your yard into a place for growing, relaxing and entertaining. The landscaper is aware of which plants are suitable for your area, and what plants work best together.

Planting – You could view this as the dating app of modern gardening philosophy: playing matchmaker in the landscape, planting things where they will be happy on their own (at least with very little help from humans). That is how their knowledge of the plants can benefit your property. The result is a landscape that’s easy to care for.

Pruning – It’s a good time to get rid of that debris from last season. Clearing up and cutting back trees shrubs and bushes will provide a whole new clean look to you landscaping. It enhances curb appeal and demonstrates the high standards of homeowners and business owners.

Mulch – Plus it also acts as a good insulator to the soil temperature and helps to keep moisture in the ground which is beneficial for plants. Your flower beds also will look nicer and get rid of weeds with the insertion of a layer of mulch. In addition, as organic mulch decomposes it adds nutrients to those same plants.

Lawn Care Services

Lawn maintenance services focus on the overall health of your lawn. The services include mowing, aeration and seeding, along with weed control and tree and shrub care.

Mowing – The landscaper has the appropriate tools for perfect mowing in speed. Along the edges they will weed whack and clean up the trimmings. A lot of households and companies like getting this task off their list. Lawn should be mowed weekly or even more frequently at the height of growing season.

Fertilization – The lawn requires nutrients to thrive and remain healthy, so a good fertilising regime from spring through to mid-autumn is the best thing you can do for your green lawn.

Weed Control – Weeds have thousands of different varieties of shapes and sizes, and are our biggest complaint. No one likes weeds. Preventive weed control and treatments are provided by lawn care companies.

Fungicide – Just as with preventative fungicide treatments, proactive applications can also keep your lawn healthy and free from disease. Fungicide applications kill and prevent the dozens of lawn diseases such as leaf spot, brown patches, summer patch to name a few.

Pests – There are lots of pests that can get into a lawn and disrupt the turf. Some pests like grubs, ticks as well as mosquitoes can be treated to eliminate the pests by the lawn care service which will check and prevent them from emerging.

Lime Applications – For much of the country (certainly here in NH), lime applied to your lawn is a necessary practice, like cutting it. Also, lawn grass cannot always access the nutrients it needs from your soil if you don’t apply lime. Your soil standard is neutral PH, which means about 7.0 for your soil PH, when you have deviations Lawn care companies fix them.

Tree and Shrub Health – Whether it’s spotting blotches on your leaves, damage to the trunk, or some other sign that your tree is not healthy, we can provide the right solution for beautiful, vigorous trees.

Typically lawn care operators provide fertilization using a soil injected liquid at commercial strengths for larger trees and shrubs and granular long-release for small rooted shrubbery or ground covers.

R & S Landscaping can cover whatever is outside your house. It’s right there in our name!

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