Maintenance Services:
- Retrieve patio furniture from storage and set up
- Spring cleanups continue
Landscape Design & Install:
- Construction projects begin
Lawn Applications:
- Lawn Crabgrass control with fertilizer
- Lawn aeration (April or May)
- Lawn lime application
- Lawn renovation
- Lawn seeding
- Lawn weed control for follow-up of previous month’s initial crabgrass with fertilizer application
- Lawn weed and feed (weed only/feed only options available) May or June application
- Weed control with Roundup®
Lawn Install, Mowing & Maintenance:
- Activation of irrigation systems
- Mowing begins
Pest Control:
- Fungicide/insecticide spray for roses and perennials subject to fungus
- Organic Deer Defeat and rabbit repellent
Plant Bed Maintenance:
- Edging
- Turn over compost pile
- Apply compost top dressing around trees, shrubs and perennials before mulching
- Mulching
- Dead-head spring bulbs as flowers fade
- Fertilize roses
- Garden maintenance begins
- Install supports for tall/heavy perennials (peonies, etc.)
- Soil acidifier with organic fertilizer (April or May; blueberries, azaleas, dwarf/ornamental evergreens).
Pond Maintenance:
- Mosquito larvicide application for ponds
- Pond dye to reduce algae growth
Pruning, Shearing, Tree Removal:
- Stump grinding
- Tree removal
Tick & Biting Insect Control:
- Organic Tick FreeTM control; recommended applications: light infestation, every 60 days, moderate to heavy infestation every 30 days
- Damminix® Tick Tubes for perimeter of property: each tube covers a radius of 30’, and should be placed where mice and other rodents inhabit or travel (i.e.; property boundaries, in brush or woods, planting beds around buildings, landscaped planting beds, stone walls, under decks and porches). Tube lifetime is 90 days.
- Mosquito larvicide application for ponds
Tree & Shrub Applications:
- Apple tree spray continues (refer to April for details of spray schedule)
- Application of horticultural oil* with fungicide to ornamental trees and shrubs through mid-May (*oil smothers bugs and eggs).
- Insecticide and fungicide spray for ornamental trees and shrubs
- Merit drench treatment for Bronze birch borer for birch trees
- Deep feeding of tree root systems for trees and shrubs
- Root push deep feeding for trees and shrubs
- Needle cast spray application, 2-3 weeks apart, 3 applications total, May into June (start date varies with season)
- Soil acidifier with organic fertilizer (April or May; blueberries, azaleas, dwarf/ornamental evergreens).