PREVENTION: Keepings weeds out of, or from spreading in your yard, garden, or landscape; cover crop; nutrient management.
BIOLOGICAL: Grow a healthy and mature landscape to give established plants a competitive advantage over weeds and keep them from spreading; using living organisms (bacteria, fungi, or insects) to help eliminate target weeds.
CHEMICAL: Being eco-friendly, we discourage broad use of herbicides that are hazardous to the environment, and when necessary suggest application of organic and natural methods as pr-emergent in spring-time.
CULTURAL: Hand pulling, tillage, burning (flame or steam heat), mowing, seasonal weed seed control.
MECHANICAL:
Weeding-Wise
YARD and GARDEN
YARD and GARDEN CLEANUP
"Conscientious weeding in early spring provides the greatest long term benefit for preventing weeds.
Spring Clean-up
We need first unearth what winter has left behind. We can help you with the cutting back of perennials and
grasses; raking of fallen leaves and dead foliage in beds and borders; and neaten up hardscape surfaces: i.e. flagstone, brick, or rock beds. Early spring is a time when conscientious weeding can have the greatest long
term benefit. Also, light loosening of the soil and sometimes mulching can be of advantage for both established gardens and new plantings of seasonal bulbs and flowers. Don't forget to amend your soil and
use organic fertilizer and compost
Fall or Late Summer Clean-up
Best practices for fall yard clean up include removing late season weeds, preferably before they have gone to seed: pruning or cutting back plant growth; sometimes removing any fallen leaves and debris that remain in your garden beds to prevent unwanted insects and diseases; and the use of mulch around plants and trees. Caring for your yard and garden in the fall will make all the difference when you go to plant in the spring again.