Expert Lawn Maintenance Programs

Maintain a lush, healthy lawn year-round with our professional lawn maintenance services. At Apple Lawn Service, we offer personalized weekly and monthly programs, including mowing, trimming, and debris removal, to keep your property in top condition. Our vacation services ensure your lawn stays perfect, even when you’re away, enhancing security and peace of mind.

Weekly Lawn Maintenance Program

Apple Lawn Service can perform a weekly lawn maintenance program, or as needed during hot and dry periods, that includes the cutting of the lawn area, and trimming of all walkways, bed areas, and perimeters before our staff performs a post-work cleanup consisting of the blowing of all grass clippings from all walkways, sidewalks, driveways and patios so that no unsightly clippings remain.

Monthly Lawn Maintenance Program

Apple Lawn Service can perform a monthly lawn maintenance program that is specifically tailored to each client’s needs. These monthly services can include the weekly cutting of the lawn area, which includes the trimming of all walkways, bed areas, and perimeters, before our staff performs a post-work cleanup consisting of the blowing of all grass clippings from all walkways, sidewalks, driveways and patios so that no unsightly clippings remain, fertilizing, mulching of the bed areas, watering of the lawn during extended periods of high temperatures, weeding of bed areas, trimming of the shrubs and bushes, and numerous other projects that the customer specifically desires.

Aeration Service

Aeration is the removal of small cores of soil from the lawn which reduces soil compaction and promotes root growth for a healthier lawn.

Dethatching

A thin layer of thatch, the layer of dead and decaying plant tissue located between the soil surface and the green vegetation, is beneficial because it reduces soil compaction and increase wear tolerance. However a thatch layer that exceeds 1/2 inch prevents air, light, nutrients, and water from reaching the grass’s root zone. Excessive thatch also provides an ideal breading ground for harmful insects and disease organisms. Dethatching is the process of removing the excess layer of thatch so that the grass can once again receive the needed air, water and nutrients that are required to produce a healthy, thus drought resistant, lawn. Both Spring and Fall are idea times for this procedure.

Fall (Leaf Removal) Cleanups

Apple Lawn Service has developed a comprehensive program that enables us to remove the Fall leaves that accumulate on the lawn and bed areas during the Fall season. Apple Lawn Service will proceed to service your account from the time the leaves initially drop until the last leaf is down for the season which normally is about the first week of December. Our annual charge is based on the amount of time it takes to complete this project. Factors that add to the annual charges are if we have to remove and dispose of the leaves off-site, bagging for removal by the local municipalities or any of the other tasks that are required to remove the leaves in accordance with local rules and ordinances.

Fertilizing

When selecting a fertilizer please consider the major considerations whether you are using a Scotts®, Lesco®, or any store-bought variety. The first consideration is the percentage, by weight, of the three major nutrients – Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium. These three ingredients are printed on the front of every consumer application grade of fertilizer. However these percentages of ingredients only informs the consumer about the chemical makeup and not the performance that one receives from the proper application of the product. Therefore consumers should be alert to the following percentages, symbols and what each one specifically does in order to make an informed choice.

N – Indicates percentage of Nitrogen which makes the grass grow and become green.
P – Indicates percentage of Phosphorous which stimulates roots and seedling growth.
K – Indicates percentage of Potassium which promotes disease and drought resistance.

The next consideration is the Nitrogen release rate. The rate that the nitrogen is released into the turf area not only determines how fast the grass will green up but also how quickly it will grow which effects the amount of clippings produced during the next mowing, the rate that the fertilizer is wasted by natural leaching and runoff, and last but most important to the residential consumer how long does this application last. Residential lawns require a slow release fertilizer that provides a steady feeding in order to achieve the much desired thick green lawn that becomes the envy of the neighborhood.

The third factor to consider is the granule content, or make up, of the fertilizer. Since most fertilizers contain the three basic ingredients (namely Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium) in separate granules which are of different shape and sizes these granules can separate during storage, shipping and handling causing the contents to separate within the package resulting in an uneven distribution of the product on the lawn area resulting in a less than desirable result.

Installation of Bed Areas

Since 1992, Apple Lawn Service has been installing various types, styles and sizes of landscaping installations for our clients. Be it a small backyard garden to a larger landscaping project that requires a vast amount of material and labor we have accommodated all of our clients needs both on time and within their budget. Contact an Apple Lawn service representative to help plan your installation utilizing either one of our design techniques.

Mulching of Beds

Mulch, in essence shredded or chipped tree bark, helps protects the shrubs, flowers, bulbs and trees that it surrounds by providing warm during the cooler temperatures while helping to store water and deflect heat and sunlight during the hotter and drier months. Apple Lawn Service has been providing our commercial and residential customers with various mulching schedules in order to meet their particular needs and wishes.

Mulch comes in various forms – chipped, shredded or ground. Colors also vary being either black, red, or the multitude shades of brown not to mention the newer designer shades that seem to pop up yearly.

Another added benefit of having your bed and tree rings areas mulched is that mulching, when combined with a good landscape or weed-block fabric, helps prevent weeds from constantly sprouting in the bed areas. However it must be noted that no weed block or landscape fabric can provide the magic bullet when ridding an area from weeds. Application of a pre-emergent also helps to curtail the amount of weeds that grow in the mulch beds but once again their is nothing on the market, short of asphalt and concrete, that will permanently rid your mulch beds of weeds. Most weeds that do sprout up in the mulch bed, even with a good landscape fabric that has been installed, normally are not growing from the soil beneath the mulch and fabric but instead the weeds are growing between the mulch and fabric itself. You can determine if this is the case simply by pulling the first weed you see. If the weed pulls through the fabric than it is growing in the soil beneath the fabric. However if the weed can be extracted rather easily, thus disturbing on the surrounding mulch, than the weed is growing between the mulch and fabric itself signaling that the fabric that is installed is of a good quality and performing as it should be.

At Apple Lawn Service we normally mulch our customers once in the early Spring finishing before the end of May while returning to mulch, if needed, around the middle of September or until the end of Fall depending on prevailing weather conditions.

Shrub Trimming

Apple Lawn Service normally prunes or trims all shrubs initially in the Spring at the proper time then again in late Summer, or as needed during the growing season, in order to maintain a neat and tidy appearance as indicated by good nursery practice. All shrubs are pruned in such a manner as to promote the growth of a well balanced, neat yet sturdy shrub, which will gradually allow the shrub to reach a mature size.