Landscape maintenance and grass cutting services – How to properly transplant plants

You envision a garden with vibrant colors, but before you head to the nearest nursery, talk to a landscape maintenance services and grass cutting services professional to get guidance on buying the right plants and installing them in your yard.

There are so many options to choose from that one can almost go dizzy, but when it comes to selecting plants for your garden, there are a few things to keep in mind like –

• Where you’re planning on installing them
• What their soil, water, and sun needs are
• How much after care do they require

Planning for the longer term with your grass cutting services team

If your plan is place plants in different places around your garden, it’s important to talk with your grass cutting services team to ensure that the plants and grass can peacefully coexist without encroaching on one another or being in danger of accidentally getting run over by the mower or trimmer. Your grass cutting services team or landscape maintenance services team could guide you on where to place your plant and also advise you if a flower or plant bed would be the best way to go. They can even help you with plant placement before the installation to ensure that you have an actual visual of what the end result will look like before you dig.

Transplanting the plants

If your plants don’t come with transplanting instructions, be sure to ask someone at the nursery or even your grass cutting services team for advice. If you have many different plants that you’re installing, it’s probably best to engage a landscape maintenance services team for the job.

There are a couple of aspects to think of when transplanting plants. If the area where you’re installing them needs to be cleared, it’s best to get the area prepared beforehand and ensure that the soil can be easily dug up to make a home for your new plant. Each hole should be large enough to accommodate the root ball of the plant with a little extra space all around.

When purchasing the plants, ask if the plants need to be hardened. The hardening process involves leaving the plants outside for a few hours in a shady area, then bringing them in. Increase the duration each day. In about a week’s time, they should be outside all day.

When installing plants that are in a small container, it may be easy enough to carefully turn the pot over, tap the container, and slide the plant out. Before turning over the pot though, carefully support the plant between your fingers to ensure that the stem doesn’t snap or the plant doesn’t fall out. Take the plant and existing soil, and carefully place it in it’s new home. If there’s some space between the plant and the hole, add some soil around it, but avoid packing it down to give the roots some room to breathe. Water your plants after installing them.

If your plants are in a bigger container, use a shovel to circle around the inner circumference of the pot to loosen the dirt. Carefully lift the plant out of the pot and place it in it’s new home.

Transplanting plants can be a big daunting if you’ve heard of or experienced transplant shock. Plants that aren’t installed correctly can result in damaged roots, stems, or even completely failed transplants.

Here are a couple of tips to help you along your way –

• Be careful while digging to ensure that there are no pipes or underground cables that could get damaged.
• Keep the pots or seedling containers that your plants came in. These are great for starting your own plants at home.

Author Bio:

Tender Care Lawn Service is one of the leading landscaping companies that provides grass cutting and landscape maintenance services across the country.  Also get fertilization, weed control, shrub Trimming, and other lawn care services.  Get a free estimate today!

Choosing the right company for your landscape maintenance services and grass cutting services

Look through the phonebook or search online and you’ll find a slew of landscaping companies that offer landscape maintenance services and grass cutting services.  But how do you know which one you should choose?
We’ve heard stories about how customers have to go through one or more not so pleasant experiences before finding a landscape maintenance services team that they love.  Even if you’re simply looking for grass cutting services, there’s no reason to feel the pain of a poorly done job or a hole in the pocket.

So how do you choose the right landscape maintenance services or grass cutting services team?

It’s actually not that difficult at all.  As a company that’s been in business for a long time, we can provide some pointers on how to get through the selection process.
Here are some things you can ask –
1.Do you have a horticulture license?
This confirms that you’re dealing with a landscape maintenance services team that is licensed to be doing the job and also strives to continually learn about their craft and can assure that they are skilled enough for grass cutting services and other landscape maintenance services.
2.How much experience do you have with lighting and water usage?
When creating a gardenscape, it’s important to know how best to use natural and artificial lighting to enhance the look of your garden and give your plants the nutrients they need.  It’s also crucial to determine how to set up the irrigation for your garden to avoid over and under watering as well as water pooling.
3.Which low maintenance plants would you recommend?
Your landscape maintenance services team should be familiar with the plants that you want and have in your garden.  They should provide guidance on the maintenance needs of the plants as well as their individual needs for optimal growth.  The maintenance requirements of each plant should be discussed before integrating it into your garden.
4.What weed prevention techniques should we use?
Grass cutting services don’t end at cutting, trimming, and mulching.  They also require analysis of the yard to ensure that weeds are properly prevented and managed to ensure that they don’t spread while cutting and mulching takes place.
5.What is your process?
Whether you’re simply using their grass cutting services or have bigger landscaping needs, the landscape maintenance services team should explain how their process works.  Feel free to ask questions and determine how thoroughly and patiently these are answered.  It’s imperative that they take the time to educate you on how they work since you’re looking for a team for the long haul.
6.Tell me about the skills and experience of the person(s) that will work on my job.
It’s a good idea to find out who will be working on your project and what skillsets and experience they have with similar jobs.  If yours is an ongoing job, will there be a new individual that comes out each time or will there be a consistent person that takes the time to find out your individual likes and dislikes and takes care of your personalized needs?
7.Can you give us some references?
Find out who the team works for and what type of work they do.  Feel free to drive over and have a look at the yard and get a feel for their work.  Sometimes, the reverse can also be helpful, so if you see a well-manicured, healthy, and beautiful garden, stop in and ask the folks who takes care of their yard.
At Tender Care Lawn Services, we take the time to build a relationship of trust with our customers.  Call our landscape maintenance services team on 337-313-3002 for any of your lawn or landscape needs including grass cutting services, irrigation and drainage needs, staining and protection of your wooden structures and fences, and more.

Author Bio:
Tender Care Lawn is a dedicated lawn care company started by Donald Lapoint and family in 2004 in southwest Louisiana. Our goal is to provide affordable, dependable, quality Landscape Maintenance Services. We believe in complete customer satisfaction. Our services include grass cutting, fertilization, weed control, shrub and hedge trimming in the Sulphur, Lake Charles, Moss Bluff, Westlake, Carlyss and surrounding areas.