Landscaping Lake Charles

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Pro Tips for Spring Preparation from Lawn and
Landscaping Companies

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• When February peeps in, you know it is time to
  start getting ready for spring. You too have to
  prepare your lawn for spring. This is the time
  that many lawn owners call
• With the passage of winter, your plants will be
  left hungry and weak. Thus, if you want to have a
  bloom in spring and summer, now is the time to
  start getting ready. Lucky for you, we do not
  only offer grass cutting services at TCLS, but we
  also walk with our clients every step of the way,
  every season. It is quite possible to have a lawn
  that looks as if it popped out of a home
  improvement magazine, all seasons of the year.
  lawn service and landscaping companies for advice.

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Tips that lawn service and landscaping companies
use for spring preparation

• Clean the lawn and rake the grass to wakefulness
• Spring is a happy time. Thus, you do not want it
  to find your lawn dirty and unprepared for the
  warm months. By cleaning, we mean just take an
  air blower and blow away the debris that
  collected over winter. Blow away the leaves.
  Well, you could rake the leaves away, but an air
  blower is faster, less tiring, and more
  effective. When you do not remove the debris, it
  will block the fertilizer from getting into the
  soil. You do not want the nutrients meant for
  your plants to go to waste.
• However, while you are using the air blower for
  the debris, remember that you will still need to
  use a rake on the grass. A rake will do the job
  of waking up the grass, in readiness for the warm
  season. Many lawn care services advise you to
  rake the grass out of its slumber. A rake will
  also aerate the soil some so that the fertilizers
  can soak better.

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Weeding the lawn

• Any lawn care company will tell you that the
  approach of spring is the best time to do your
  weeding. If you skimp on that, you will give the
  weed a lot of leeway, and it may overwhelm your
  grass in the near future as it will usurp all the
  nutrients.
• Now, there are weeds that you can control when
  they have already germinated. However, some, such
  as crabgrass are nasty customers. You want to get
  rid of them before they can germinate. Usually,
  crabgrass starts to germinate when the
  temperature of the soil reaches 55 degrees or
  thereabouts.
• In southwest Louisiana, crabgrass is one of the
  most serious weed infestations. It can also be
  hard to control. At TCLS, we tell our clients to
  ensure that crabgrass does not get to germinate.
  This means using corn gluten meal, which is a
  pre-emergent organic controller.

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• Although this can take time to be effective, once
  it starts being effective, you may never have to
  deal with crabgrass again. There are more instant
  solutions to crabgrass that lawn service and
  landscaping companies can advise you on too.
• Please also note that you should not use a
  pre-emergent weed controller if you plan to plant
  grass. It may prevent the grass from germinating.
  It is best to consult with a grass cutting and
  lawn care services provider because there is a
  lot of room for error in the use of weed control
  solutions.

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It is time to trim your trees and shrubs

• The trees and the shrubs do a good job of giving
  your lawn character, especially when they are
  nicely trimmed. Get them ready for summer by
  trimming them. This prepares the trees for
  another burst of growth. It could be hard to trim
  the trees and the shrubs just right, so get the
  assistance of landscape maintenance services.
• If you do not have skill and experience, you may
  just trim off the new growth in your shrubs and
  trees. In some cases, you may want to wait until
  the shrubs start flowering so that you do not
  trim the seed bearing branches. That is why it is
  advisable to hire professionals for the job to
  eliminate all the guesswork.

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Find out whether there is need to apply
fertilizer

• Lawn service and landscaping companies advise
  lawn owners to test their soil to determine
  whether the pH balance has been maintained. Most
  of the times, the melting snow might have changed
  the soils chemical balance. Even if you applied
  fertilizerto your lawn in fall, do carry out
  another test still to make sure that the soil is
  ready for new and accelerated growth in summer.
• You may have to mulch the leaves
• Although we advise to get rid of the leaves with
  an air blower, if the leaf cover is not too
  thick, you should mulch it back to the lawn with
  a lawn mower. Just ensure that you do not leave
  too much leaf cover that may hamper the growth or
  the greening of the grass.

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Time to spread the mulch

• When preparing your yard for spring, it is the
  right time for you to spread some mulch. You can
  spread some mulch, an inch or so thick around the
  trees and on the plant beds. The reason for
  adding mulch is to keep the plant roots cool in
  summer and to help the soil retain water. Make
  sure the mulch cover is not thicker than 3
  inches.
• You can see that there is quite a lot to do to
  your lawn to prepare for spring. We are among the
  top lawn service and landscaping companies in
  southwest Louisiana and we advise our clients to
  never take chances. By following the steps weve
  outlined above, youll be ready for new growth in
  spring and summer.

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Contact us

• Address  Lawn care servicesAddress 1497 W
  Houston River Rd,Sulphur, LA 70663Telephone 337-
  313-3002