Do you need to maintain your landscape year round? In Atlanta and other areas of the southeast, Year around maintenance is very common and needed to keep a healthy landscape. While the frequency may change from weeekly to a couple of times a month from November to March, there is imperative work that needs to occur to be ready for Spring. Here are a few maintenance activities that occur during these months:
- Leaf Removal
- Cutting back Liropie, perrennials, and oranmental grasses
- Hard pruning of shrubs
- Limbing of Trees
- Pruning of Craepe Mrytles and Butterfly Bush
- Prunning of Roses
- Scalping of Bermuda and Zyosia
There are also several lawn care and pest control treatments to prepare for Spring:
- Application of Simazine in Nov or Dec for Poa Ann control in early sping
- Application of Dormant Oil on Shrubs to reduce insect populations in Spring
- Application of Pre-Emergent in Late Feb/Early March
- Fertilization of Trees and Shrubs
- Application of Winter Fertilization in October for root development
- Fertilization and overseeding of Fescue
- Grub Treatment
Not maintening your landscape in the winter will increase Spring problems and require a Spring clean up. This spring clean up is most like to cost more the continuing the maintenance through the winter. Also it will be defficult to get the landscape to look and perform as it should.
As you go further North, the Fall Season is more rapid and the dormant season last longer, but there are still things to consider before spring arrives.