The weather is getting warmer and summer is on the horizon! But you may be noticing around your property that the landscaping could use a little love and a little refurbishing. If you have not re-mulched or invigorated your plants with fresh organic topsoil for years it is time to start thinking about it. Beyond aesthetics, plants are looking for healthy soil to grow in and that can mean some restoration with new live soil.
Let’s take a look at some of the options.
The Health of Your Plants
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Topsoil and mulch provide an aesthetic benefit to your home landscape design, that much we can all see, but is there more than just the look of your yard that new soil or mulch can improve? To put it simply, yes, new mulch or new topsoil will improve the overall health of your yard, plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, garden, and more. Plants use the nutrients provided by the soil along with water (from a hose or rain) and over longer periods that plant nutrition will get used and need to be replaced. You can do this in two ways, either by adding fertilizers or by using new topsoil.
Because fertilizers can be chemical and potentially dangerous they can help your plants but can hurt your pets, kids, or even yourself. For this reason, we highly recommend changing your soil every so often to ensure you don’t need to use chemical fertilizers and can keep your plants healthy and your property chemical-free.
Benefits of Using Mulch
Many of us think of mulch and we think, “that looks great it brings the yard together and smells fresh”. That is all fine but there is more than just the look of mulch that is appealing to homeowners. Mulch reduces the amount of water that evaporates from your soil, meaning the soil and mulch will retain more water and you will need to water your plants less. This is very important in areas that face drought as the ground will retain more moisture than just using soil alone. This will also make the need for you to water your plants be less which will save you time and likely water expenses.
Mulch also provides nutrients to very sandy or rocky soil that won’t have that much plant nutrition on its own. Areas with poor ground soil or low nutrition ground soil will also benefit greatly from using mulch. Mulch also reduces winter plant injury (very important for our area) and offers some weed control, so it will reduce your lawn care costs over time and keep your plants in better health.
Planning Your Landscaping Updates
Do certain areas of your landscaping need serious work? Are you planning some large projects this spring and summer? What about smaller projects? Mulch and topsoil (although they may be a large project in terms of size) are usually not at the high end in terms of budgeting. So, that means you have some wiggle room when planning out your home landscaping design updates this warm weather season.
If you’re installing a new pool this year, have you thought about the pool-side landscaping and plantings you’ll want? Here is where you should look to match your topsoil and mulch with other areas of your property. You wouldn’t want dark topsoil for some and light mulch for other areas, it would just look weird. So be sure you’re being consistent whichever way you go.
For the best home landscaping design Rockland NY, look no further than right here at Pro Cut Landscaping, proudly serving the area for over 30 years. Call today to discuss your upcoming project: 845-727-8815