Ok, so your yard has been cleaned up, the grass is finally growing, and now you are looking at some stale old mulch in the landscaped beds around your property. What should you do? Add more mulch, clean out the old stuff? How can you keep up a maintained look without spending all Spring and Summer pulling weeds? Hopefully with some planning and a little bit of work now, you’ll be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
A good approach to maintaining your landscaped beds includes cleaning them up, fertilizing the plants, and managing weeds. Soundview can help with all of this. We suggest starting with an edging spade to clean up your beds.
Then, make sure all of the old mulch isn’t piled up too high on the plants. Mulch will do more damage than good if you cover too much of any plant or tree. We have a variety of bagged mulch products for your projects. Of course, we always advise against making the mulch volcano.
After you’ve edged the beds and scraped out any old mulch, make sure to compost the waste or bring it to us for recycling. Now that the soil is cleaned up, evaluate your plant material. Clean out any winter damage, make sure the soil isn’t compacted and lightly fertilize everything. We recommend using a slow release organic fertilizer, like Dry Roots, Holly Tone, or a new line of products we are carrying called Sanctuary.
These products don’t burn, are easy to apply and often can be used on a variety of different types of plants with good results.
