As the leaves start to change color and the temperature starts to slowly fall, it’s a sign that autumn has arrived. While many of our Cape Cod and the Islands neighbors associate the season with cozy sweaters, apple cider, or pumpkin lattes, it’s also a vital time for an extremely important activity: fall cleanups for your residential landscape or commercial property. These fall cleanups are a vital aspect of keeping your outdoor space vibrant and healthy. In this blog, we’ll look at why fall cleanups are so essential for your Cape Cod yard and how they can benefit not only your property but the environment as well.
Protecting Your Property From The Coming Winter
The coming winter months can really take a toll on your outdoor space. Branches, leaves, and other types of debris can stifle your lawn, shrubs, and flowers, making it extremely tough for them to survive the winter and emerge healthy in spring. Fall yard cleanups, provided by Gade Masonry & Landscaping, will remove all this debris. This ensures that your landscape will withstand the challenges of winter and (for lack of a better term), “spring” forth again in the warmer months!
Keeping the Pests Away
All that amount of clutter, leaves, etc., on your property, creates ideal camping spots for pests seeking shelter during the winter. If you don’t take advantage of a proper cleanup, you may end up unknowingly inviting unwanted guests into your property like insects or rodents. So by making sure to trust us to tidy up your yard in the fall season, you significantly reduce the chances of these annoying pests calling your yardscape their home.
Increase Health & Fertility of Your Soil
Allowing all that autumn clutter to remain on your property can limit sunlight and airflow which leads to depletion of nutrients and compaction of soil on your yard. A full yard cleanup, which Gade Masonry & Landscaping includes leaf removal and proper disposal or composting, will help to greatly maintain the health of your soil. A very environmentally friendly option is also to mulch the leaves and spread them throughout the garden and planting beds, should the weather allow it. Making sure that you have healthy soil will lend to better water retention, development of roots, and overall plant growth which will make for a lush landscape come spring.
Adds to Curb Appeal
Your outdoor area is an extension of your home, and how it looks will contribute greatly to its curb appeal. If you end up neglecting fall cleanups, this can result in a messy and unkempt-looking yard. This can not only take away from your home’s overall aesthetic but can even reduce its market value. Having a fall cleanup from Gade Masonry & Landscaping will provide a maintained yard, add to your property’s charm, and display pride of ownership.
Ready…Set…SPRING!
Having a fall yard cleanup done on your property will set the stage for a successful spring landscape season. By ensuring that debris is removed, flower beds, cleared, and shrubs trimmed, you will be creating prime conditions for your plants to thrive once warmer temperatures return. Remember, a fall cleanup is an investment in the future of your landscape so that it blooms with vitality and beauty when the days start to grow longer again.
Helping The Environment
Yes, fall cleanups will do wonders for your residential or commercial property, BUT they also help with the environment! Making sure that composting of yard waste occurs and that disposals are handled properly will help reduce contributions to landfills and will also support best practices for sustainability. Many towns in Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and South Shore Massachusetts offer programs for leaf recycling and for other organic materials, which earns you a spot on the “doing your part for the world” seat!
How Do I Get My Fall Cleanup Booked?
To summarize, having a fall cleanup done is of the utmost importance. By making sure you make this a priority, you protect your yardscape from the harshness of winter, keep the pests away, promote good soil health, increase your curb appeal, prep for spring, AND help the environment! The next step is easy: reach out to us today so that you can create a more beautiful, healthier, and long-lasting outdoor space this autumn. Your yard, and your fellow environment, will thank you for it!
Contact us for your fall cleanup, and to get a free estimate on other landscaping projects on your list, by calling us at (508) 292-2160 or visiting our website at www.gademasonrylandscaping.com today!