Summer Lawn and Garden Checklist

Now that we are in July and the hot weather is definitely here to stay, here are some tips for your lawn and gardening during this month.  With the hot temperatures and little rainfall predicated, your lawn and garden are likely to slow down and conserve energy.  Here is how you can help keep your lawn and garden happy!

Trees and shrubs:

• Stop fertilizing to allow them to reduce growth during the heat of the summer.  
• Water trees infrequently but deeply.  
• Apply extra mulch at the base of the tree to help retain moisture.  
• Prune dead or damaged limbs.

Annuals and Containers:

• Water container plants daily 
• Deadhead faded blooms to increase blooming.
• Pinch back leggy stems to encourage branching.

Lawns:

• Continue to mow as needed but set your mower to the highest setting
• Keep lawn mower blades sharp
• Mulch grass clippings to help shade and feed your lawn

Time to mow the lawn...

I heard quite a few lawn mowers this past weekend.  With the recent rain and the wet weather, the grass is making a comeback along with a lot of weeds. 

Tired of spending your weekend mowing the lawn and picking the weeds?  Do you wish you could skip the upcoming spring cleanup of adding mulch and annuals to your landscape beds?  Let us do the work for you!

Preferred Landscape and Lighting has a maintenance department that can set up regular service calls to do as much or as little as you want them to.  Just want a quarterly spruce up?  Done.  Want somebody out there every week tending the beds and spraying for weeds?  Done.  We can customize a maintenance plans to meet your needs.  So you can get back to enjoying your outdoor space on the weekends instead of working on it!