Residential Maintenance

Even the best design will fail without proper maintenance!

Also known as residential groundskeeping, Landcare's Residential Maintenance services provide our clients with proactive, worry-free grounds maintenance.

Landcare provides three residential maintenance programs and
a staff of top groundskeepers to meet all your needs.

Landcare Garden Maintenance Program:
for properties where gardens are a priority and special care is required. Gardens will be kept weeded and edged, perennials are deadheaded and staked when needed, annuals are pinched, and bushes and hedges are trimmed. Estimates can be provided but the service is billed on time, materials & disposal costs. It can be combined with Grass Cutting Maintenance to ensure all the property needs are met.

Landcare Grass Cutting Maintenance:
for those who prefer to do their own gardening but still require lawn care. Includes: grass cutting, keeping the property free of debris, blowing off the hard surfaces. To ensure your property looks its best, Grass Cutting Maintenance is provided on a weekly basis.

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Other Residential Maintenance Services:

Annual Planting and Urn Arrangements
Seasonal planting arrangements using annuals or urns (containers) can provide much-needed curb appeal (staging your home/selling your home), add some colour after a long winter, or completely change your outdoor space. A LANDCARE representative will discuss your preferences with you.
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100% Organic Fertilizer Programs
Once you have that great lawn, perfect ornamental garden (trees, shrubs and perennials), or fantastic vegetable garden, you have to maintain and sustain them.
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Lawn Fertility program typically includes the following. Please read the specifics for your property.

Slit seeding
Aeration
Soil Conditioning – top dressing and/or soil amendments
Power Dethatching

Additional Services:

Ecoclear:  An organic weed spray for driveway and walkways: done 4 times per year to prevent weed growth.  
Garden Fertilizer: Organic garden fertilizer applications to help the strength, vigor and flowering capacity of perennials.  
Ornamental Tree & Shrub Fertilizer: Recommended only for weak, ailing or newly planted trees and shrubs, based on size, type and quantity. Fertilizer is applied in the spring and fall.  
Soil Testing:  LANDCARE has the ability to assess a lawn’s health with the same technology used at golf courses. LANDCARE offers a customized Organic Property Management Program based on soil testing. The results of your soil test tell us your soil type, nutrient and pH level requirements. LANDCARE will then tailor your Organic Property Management Program to your property's needs using a combination of fertilizing, soil conditioning and natural lawn care techniques.   

Pruning
Pruning may sound simple, however there are significant differences when pruning different plants, such as rose bushes, shrubs, hedges, fruit or ornamental trees. Pruning helps your trees, shrubs and other plant life thrive by removing diseased, non-productive, or otherwise unwanted portions of a plant. Although forest trees grow quite well with only nature's pruning, landscape trees require a higher level of care to maintain their safety and aesthetics.

LANDCARE will prune all ornamental trees and shrubs under 12' in height. Each species has a seasonally appropriate time to be pruned to encourage flowering and plant health. LANDCARE prunes according to the natural aesthetic beauty of the tree or shrub. Trees and shrubs can be loosely grouped into four seasonal best pruning times: 1) Late winter pruning - late February to early March - temperatures are not getting too far below freezing at night. This is typically renovation pruning and pruning of late summer flowering plants. 2) Spring pruning - early June – prune spring flowering trees and shrubs after flowering 3) Early summer pruning - before it gets too hot – evergreens 4) Late summer, early fall pruning - early summer flowering plants.
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Lawn Restoration (Top Dressing, Aerating, Overseeding, Sodding)
Top dressing is a prerequisite for a high lawn quality. Top dressing adds needed nutrients and fiber to keep lawns lush, by ensuring a better germination rate on re-seeding and stimulating the growth and vitality of existing grass.

Not only do you need to make sure your lawn is mowed, weeded, fertilized and irrigated, you also need to aerate. As sod ages, the soil underneath can become so compacted, there is little or no pore space (small pockets of air held in the soil), making it difficult for grass roots to absorb water and nutrients. Before long,
the lawn will deteriorate, becoming more susceptible to weeds and attack by insects and diseases.

Aeration involves the removal of small cores-or plugs of soil-which are then deposited on the surface (they'll work their way into the grass within a month). The small holes that remain help to break up compacted areas and allow water and air to penetrate to the root zone.
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Garden Upgrades and Mulching
Adding new soil or compost to your garden every few years will help with the vitality of your existing plants. New soil will increase the nutrient fiber level (loam) in your garden.

Mulching the bare soil in your gardens deters weed growth and moderates the soil temperature, reducing your watering requirements.

Looking to add a vegetable garden this year? We can help identify the best location for vegetables in your yard and get the site prepared for planting.
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Residential Snow Removal
For residential snow removal services in the winter, make sure you
sign up early to make sure you get on our list!