LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE CALENDER

To assist you with maintaining your landscaping, we've prepared a simple calendar to guide you on what you should be doing each month to assure a beautiful yard. Check back often, as we may make changes to this calendar.

JANUARY AND FEBRUARY

1. Conduct winter watering bi-weekly

MARCH

1. Spray deciduous and evergreen trees for borers such as pine tip moth.
2. Prune out damaged branches on Junipers likely damaged from voles.
3. Apply pre-emergent to bed areas
4. Continue winter watering
5. Prune roses

APRIL

1. Lawn mowing begins
2. Apply crabgrass preventative and herbicides for dandelions
3. Aerate & Fertilize lawn in this order
4. Apply Rose Feed
5. Remove tree wrap
6. Turn-on, inspect, and adjust sprinkler system
7. Add mulch to beds where needed
8. Conduct spring cleanup and remove leaves, needles and debris from all landscape areas.

MAY

1. Plant annuals-We recommend sometime after Mother’s Day
2. Apply fertilizer to trees, shrubs and perennials
3. Apply preventative fire blight spray to Pears, Crabs, Ash, Apple and Pyracantha.

JUNE

1. Apply lawn Fertilizer
2. Apply Rose Fertilizer
3. Inspect trees and shrubs for pests (mountain pine beetle)
4. Inspect and adjust sprinkler system as needed

JULY

1. Check lawn for fungus
2. Prune shrubs when flowering is completed
3. Inspect and adjust sprinkler system as needed
4. Inspect all trees and shrubs for insect pests
5. Prune Maples, Birch, Lilacs, Viburnum, Forsythias, etc.
6. Dead head annuals & perennials as needed

AUGUST

1. Dead head annuals & perennials as needed
2. Inspect and adjust sprinkler system as needed
3. Apply Rose Fertilizer

SEPTEMBER

1. Dead head annuals & perennials as needed
2. Inspect and adjust sprinkler system as needed
3. Aerate & Fertilize lawn in this order

OCTOBER

1. Prune and cut back perennials
2. Winterize sprinkler system
3. Turf mowing generally ends.
4. Plant bulbs like daffodils and tulips for spring bloom

NOVEMBER

1. Apply tree wrap
2. Remove annuals and plant Pansies
3. Conduct a fall cleanup and remove leaves and debris from all landscape areas
4. Mulch perennials and roses
5. Winterize sprinkler system (if not completed in October)
6. Schedule Holiday lighting install with Outback

DECEMBER

1. Winter watering bi-weekly