Landscaping Services In Belmont, Ma - Commercial & Residential Landscape Company

Spring Clean-Up

After winter in Belmont, yards look pretty rough. You've got dead leaves matted down everywhere from fall that never got cleaned up properly. Branches that came down during those ice storms we always get. All that salt damage along the driveway edges. Everything just looks brown and nasty.

Spring cleanup means we rake out all that dead stuff, cut back the perennials that died back, edge your beds so they actually have some definition again, and haul away all the debris. We also check for any damage to plants from the snow load – sometimes those shrubs near the house get pretty beat up.

The timing matters with this stuff. You cant really start to early because the ground needs to dry out first. But wait to long and your fighting with new growth while trying to clean up old mess. We usually hit properties in late March or early April depending on how fast things thaw out.

People near Payson Park and that whole area tend to need more work cause the big trees drop so much stuff. But honestly every property needs this service unless you stayed on top of it yourself all winter, which nobody does.

Fall Clean-Up

This is probably the biggest service we do. Fall in Belmont means leaves. So many leaves. If you got maples or oaks anywhere near your property, you know what I'm talking about.

Most properties need at least 2-3 cleanups during fall because the leaves don't all drop at once. We come through, blow everything out of the beds, rake or mulch the lawn, and haul it all away. Some people try to just mow over them but that only works if you stay on top of it every few days.

The problem with skipping fall cleanup is your yard looks terrible all winter, and then in spring all those matted leaves kill the grass underneath. You end up with dead patches everywhere that you gotta reseed. Way easier to just deal with it in the fall.

We usually start seeing properties that need cleanup around mid-October. By Thanksgiving most of the leaves are down. The properties around Belmont Hill with all those big old trees – those need the most attention. Some of those yards can fill up 20-30 bags easy just from one cleanup.

Also nobody talks about this but gutters fill up with leaves too and then you get ice dams in winter. We don't do gutters but its worth getting someone to clean those while the fall cleanup is happening.

Bi-Weekly Weeding

Weeds grow faster than grass. That's just how it is. You can have a decent looking landscape in June and by mid-July its overrun with crabgrass and clover and all sorts of other stuff you don't want.

Bi-weekly weeding means we come every two weeks during growing season and pull or treat the weeds in your beds and along edges. This keeps things looking clean and also stops the weeds from going to seed and making next year worse.

The key is consistency. You cant let weeds get established. Once there root systems are in deep, there way harder to deal with. But if you stay on top of it, the job gets easier over time because your pulling less and less.

We do most of our weeding properties from May through September. That's when everything is actively growing. Some properties near Pleasant Street and that area get more weeds cause the soil is different there. More sun exposure too which weeds love.

Hand pulling is better than chemicals for most situations. You get the whole root system out. But sometimes for stuff like bindweed or poison ivy we have to use treatments cause there's no other way to control it.

Most commercial properties look at bi-weekly weeding as a necessity not a luxury. If your trying to maintain a professional appearance, you cant have weeds everywhere. It just looks like nobody cares about the property.