Getting Ready for Landscaping this Spring! For folks who plant flower and vegetable gardens their already waiting for their favorite seed catalogs to arrive in the mail.
While we may be under threat of more snow to fall yet in some parts of the country if you're thinking about doing landscaping start your planning now.
If you want to hire a landscape contractor to install plants or maybe some hardscaping (pavers, rocks, stones, etc) for a new walkway or patio you want to start planning now.
When spring starts established landscape companies are flooded with calls from clients they have already have, because they have already been providing services to these existing clients.
They have been ask to provide a service in the past and they are called again, the reasons vary, 1.
They can be counted on to respond in a timely fashion.
2.
Of course when you hire someone and you get what is agreed on why risk going with someone that you haven't had a previous relationship.
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Value is a top reason.
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Trust is right along side value.
Now there are of course a lot more reasons for a continuing relationship with a landscaping professional this are just a few.
So these existing clients want the landscaping companies they trust to put them on their routine service schedule.
As soon as the ground thaws they start with a spring cleanup consisting of gathering debris that have been accumulating over the winter.
The leaves, twigs and general yard waste in the corners and under the trees and shrubs.
Maybe the landscape client has left the ornamental grass up to provide some contrast to their landscaping over winter, now is the time to cut the spent grass down.
This is the time also to spray horticultural or dormant oil on shrubs for insect pest.
They will cultivate the mulch so there is not the matted effect.
Of course you want to take some preventative weed control steps in the landscaping beds and the lawn with pre-emergent's.
And of course we need to put down some fertilizer now also.
This is all before the weather warms up enough for you to start planting your new flowers.
Then when it gets warm the existing clients also have new work for their favorite landscape contractor.
Talk to a few people about trying to get reputable landscape contractors at this time of year, you might hear that it takes days if not weeks for companies to send someone out.
More than likely you might only get a voice message when you call some companies.
A very few landscaping contractors will have someone answering their phones so you can speak to a live person.
Of course they will still have someone call you back to make an appointment.
Then there are the very, very few companies where you will get someone when you call, that person will be able to set a appointment time and answer any questions you might have concerning your upcoming landscaping project.
Then it could take up to six weeks to have scheduled work started after you have made an appointment for an estimate, waited for them to get back to you with a proposal and you make a decision.
So make your plan now, avoid the stress of being late on the spring rush.
Take time to find someone you generally feel comfortable with being at your home.
Put your wants of items and what you desire for a finished feeling of your landscaping project down on paper and start looking now.