Landscaping enhances your yard, creates a positive living environment for your plants, and reduces insect populations. Whether you decide to take on projects yourself, or hire a professional team, you should understand the basics. Here’s what you should know about four common landscaping terms.

Trimming

Trimming the tall pieces of grass where a lawn mower can’t reach not only sharpens the appearance of a yard but also provides functional benefits. Using a device, such as a weed eater, trimmers make horizontal cuts across a lawn to create a smooth plane. When grass gets too tall, its roots dig deeper into the earth, attempting to acquire more nutrients. If all grass is trimmed to the same height, nutrients are more evenly dispersed among plants. When your plants are healthy, they are more resistant to insects.

Edging

Edging establishes a barrier between different landscaped zones and creates crisp borders. A one-inch edged gap between walkways and lawns makes it easier to mow and keeps grass roots from growing under pavements. Using plastic, stone, or wood barriers to separate lawns from shrubs, flowers, and vegetables keeps grass and weeds out of your beds.

Sodding

Sod is a premade lawn that you roll out over soil. Landscapers use it instead of growing new grass from seed. After it’s been well watered in, sod can be cut a week or two after it’s been installed. Sods are weed-free. If maintained properly, sods grow into a dense lawns of lush and green grass.

Mulching

Mulch is a protective covering for soils. It comes in organic, inorganic, and synthetic forms and can consist of plastic, stone, compost, newspaper, wood, grass clippings, or leaves. Organic mulches help to add nutrients to the soil. Plastic mulches are used mainly as a weed deterrent. Some gardeners layer organic mulch on top of plastic to reap the benefits of both. A mulch of stones aids drainage. In low-lying areas where water is prone to collect, gardeners often cover the soil with stones.

If you’ve a few landscaping projects to finish, turn to the professionals at Progressive Enterprise, LLC, in Verona, KY.  They provide a full range of expert landscaping services, including hardscaping, retaining walls, patio paving, grading, and sod and tree installations. Visit them online to learn more, or call (859) 250-7851 to set an appointment today.