With springtime just around the corner, now’s the time to start preparing your yard for the change of seasons. From fertilizing your lawn to hiring an arborist to prune your trees, there are many steps you can take to ensure your landscape is lush, healthy, and looking its best when the warm weather comes. Below are a few suggestions.

How to Get Your Landscaping Ready for the Spring

1. Clear Away Debris

Before doing anything else, remove what’s accumulated on your lawn during the winter months. This means raking up leaves, removing fallen branches, and breaking up areas of matted grass.

This will prevent debris from getting stuck in lawn mowers, and ensure any fertilizers applied are adequately absorbed by the soil. 

2. Examine Your Trees

Inspect the trees on your property and call an arborist to examine any that look bare and decayed. This will give you plenty of time to have them treated for disease if they can be saved, or to schedule tree removal before the spring arrives.

Common signs of diseased trees include brittle, peeling bark, holes in the base of the trunk, odorous fluids seeping from the bark, and the presence of fungus.

3. Have Trees & Shrubs Pruned 

Hire an arborist to prune your trees and shrubs, which will boost your home’s aesthetic appeal.

A professional will safely and effectively remove dead and damaged branches so that your trees are ready to flourish when the warm weather arrives. Pruning decayed sections allows sunlight and nutrients to reach healthy parts of the tree.

4. Fertilize the Lawn & Ward Off Weeds

If you did not fertilize your lawn in the fall, the early spring is the best time to nourish the grass. It’s also an ideal time to use a pre-emergent herbicide, which stops weeds in their tracks by preventing the seeds from germinating.

Four to six weeks later, apply another round of fertilizer and herbicide, along with a weed killer.

If you need help getting your landscape primed for the spring, contact Liscombe Tree Service in Saint Charles, MO. This company’s highly trained arborists offer a wide variety of services to get your yard in shape, including tree trimming and dead growth removal. Visit their website to learn about their work, and call (314) 650-9055 to get an estimate today.