Spring Cleanup Services

Being the centerpiece of your yard, the health of this is crucial to having a presentable home and a successful spring cleanup. Here in Pacific Northwest, can be damage that has accumulated during the winter, so your lawn might need a face lift.

If wildlife (or your kids, if that isn’t the same thing) caused heavy traffic over certain areas of your lawn, you can use topsoil, grass seed and fertilizer to spot-heal these areas. You should also remove any debris that has accumulated over the winter that can create bare spots. Lastly, at Wow Mowing Pacific Northwest we would recommend a fertilizer and lime treatment for the whole lawn. Fertilizer is your lawn food to help your grass grow as strong as possible. Lime helps with your lawns pH levels if your lawn is more acidic.

When it is below a certain pH level, the acidity of your lawn prevents it from accessing the nutrients from your fertilizer, and with such heavy rainfalls here in Pacific Northwest, your lawn can become too acidic fairly quickly. Basically, your results will not even be half as good without the lime treatment as your lawn might be too acidic to receive any benefit from the fertilizer. If you do these steps for your spring cleanup, you’ll be on your way to having a lawn your neighbors will drool for.

In Pacific Northwest, perennial hedges are bountiful! Perennials are plants that live more than two years. This means we’re talking about your trees, shrubs, and other large plants in your garden. So what do you need to look for during a spring cleanup of your perennials.

First, you’ll want to remove any dead, dying or diseased branches. This will eliminate visual clutter, as well as enable the tree to get more light and distribute water and nutrients from the soil more easily to the live branches. Second, you’ll want to lift or remove any branches that are obstructing pathways, laneways and roadways. This will not only protect passersby from walking into branches, but it will protect you from getting a complaint from your city.

You’ll mostly be looking to clear back dead debris, or in the case of smaller perennials, you will be cutting them back to reset them for new spring growth.

As with the other categories thus far, your garden will have accumulated dead debris and clutter throughout the winter, especially here in Pacific Northwest. Be sure you don’t start a spring cleanup of your gardens before the ground has thawed, but when you do you’ll want to remove the leaves, branches, or other foliage that remains.

You’ll also want to pull all of the weeds out to clear the soil fully. Flowers won’t grow without enough space so to ensure that your flowers don’t get suffocated this spring, call your local Jim and have them remove all unwanted clutter, pull the unruly weeds, and clear that needed space to give your flowers the best chance to bloom!

Here in Pacific Northwest, there’s enough debris falling down to make pathway clearing a weekly job. Your patios and walkways will probably be where you see your yard from the most, but if these areas are dirty, it might make it tough to appreciate the fine work that has been done to your yard already. In order to avoid this during your spring cleanup, you’ll want to make sure you get your furniture cleaned, look at and remove the mold and mildew that has grown on anything, and perhaps you’ll want to get all of your pathways pressure washed to get that truly clean look. Wow Mowing Pacific Northwest can certainly help you with this too as most franchisees offer pressure washing services.

So keep an eye out for that last frost and have our number ready. Here in Pacific Northwest, our Jim’s family is eager to help you achieve your dream yard so don’t hesitate to reach out for your annual spring cleanup!