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Summer Grounds Maintenance

Our standard summer maintenance package includes weekly visits, during which lawns are cut/trimmed to a height of 4-6”.

It is not a good or safe practice to cut your lawn and work on your gardens during or right after a heavy rainfall. If we cannot perform your weekly visit due to inclement weather, we usually come out the next business day to complete the work.

Fertilizer is applied in spring, summer, and fall at appropriate times according to weather and soil conditions. If conditions are not right, such as during drought periods, you will not receive the maximum benefits from the fertilizer.

There are many factors affecting the ideal times to trim or prune plants. Some can only be pruned during the dormant season, while others perform best if trimmed back while actively growing. If certain shrubs are trimmed at the wrong time, they may not produce flowers. Also, trimming shortly before frost or drought periods may seriously injure the plants and can cause them to die. Our team of experienced horticulturalists will monitor all plants weekly and perform trimming and pruning at the best times.

Your garden waste may be left on site, or we can take it away and dispose of it for you. We encourage composting all garden waste.

First of all, any debris that accumulates in these areas should be cleaned regularly to avoid this from happening. Our weekly maintenance includes cutting down any weed growth in these areas regularly so that they do not become large and hardy. We may also apply an environmentally-friendly vegetation control to prevent new weeds from growing.

Spring cleanup includes collection of litter/debris, leaves, dead plants/branches, and raking/dethatching of lawns. We also cultivate and edge the gardens and trim any trees and shrubs as needed.

Although installing a sprinkler system may seem like a costly investment, it actually can save you money in the long run! Besides the fact that irrigated lawns and gardens look great and stay healthy, automatic watering can prevent weeds, diseases, and even death of plants and trees. Other benefits include ……..

Winter Services

Snowplowing usually begins upon accumulation of 5cm or more of snow. Depending on start and end times of storms, we dispatch our plows so that all areas are accessible and passable during the storm, and then we immediately perform full snow clearing when it stops snowing.

We have various types and sizes of equipment dedicated to snow clearing and removal, and will assign the best equipment to your property to ensure efficient and high quality service. For example, a small parking lot with tight access may be plowed with a pickup truck, while a warehouse with large parking lots may be cleared with a large loader or tractor using an 18’ plow.

Snow is to be piled in designated areas. Some properties have parking spots allocated for this purpose. Others prefer to make a large pile in a back corner or on the lawn.

Sometimes there can be no place for storing snow, especially after a huge storm. We offer snow relocation and snow removal services to help with that. Using loaders and dump trucks, we can move that snow to other areas of your property, or truck it away to leave you with even more useable space.

Salt may be applied any time your pavement is or can become icy. We can provide an estimated number of applications per season, based on location, type of business, etc.

De-icing is when salt is applied to your pavement after snow or ice has formed or accumulated, such as after plowing is complete or when a few centimeters of snow accumulates and gets compacted by vehicle traffic.

Anti-icing is when salt is applied to your pavement prior to ice accumulating, such as just before freezing rain is forecast or when the pavement is wet/slushy and temperatures are expected to drop below zero.