More pictures for the portfolio

It’s been a busy year so far with a lot of clean-up work, sod laying and other small stuff. I have done a couple of landscaping jobs in Windsor and so I added some more pictures to the portfolio page, go ahead and check them out.

A big job start to finish

I have just finished up a rather large landscaping job in south Windsor and I managed to remember to take pictures of the before and after states of the property.

The first picture shows what the job looked like at the very beginning before we started doing any work.

The second picture is the digital rendering I did when i gave the home owner the quote for the job.

The third picture is the finished product.

We installed a mulch bed around the perimeter with pea stone and a flagstone patio in the center. The homeowner wanted something done a little differently with the flagstone patio than normal, they wanted some ground cover type plants to grow in the cracks, so we put black earth in the cracks between the stones instead of sand then we placed creeping thyme seeds into the soil this will create the nice green fill they wanted and provide a pleasant scent when people walk on it. The portfolio page has some more pictures of this job and shows the finished landscaping from several angles.

Lawn Mowing Tips

Well the grass cutting season is getting into full swing so I figured I should offer up a couple of professional tips on how to properly care for a lawn.

The first and most important tip has to do with mowing height. The ideal height for mowing most lawns is between 3-4 inches the reason for this is that most residential and commercial lawns in Windsor are typically composed of a mix of Kentucky Bluegrass, Creeping Fescue, and Perennial Rye Grass. These particular types of grasses need to be fairly long before they can produce leaves, so if the lawn is cut to short the stems will be cut before the area where the leaves emerge, this makes it very hard for the lawn to photosynthesize and grow. this is why Precedence Landscaping keeps all of our mowers set to 3 inches.

The other tip is to make sure that the lawn mower being used to cut the grass has sharp blades, if the blades are not sharp they will tear the grass instead of cutting it cleanly. This can be seen a couple of days after the lawn has been cut as a fraying at the ends of the leaf blades. For the best results the blades of a typical homeowners lawn mower should be sharpened three times a year; once before the first mowing, again on Canada Day, and one more time on Labour Day. As for Precedence Landscaping, with our lawn mowers being used as much as they are, we sharpen the blades at least once a month as sometimes more in the spring and fall peak growing seasons in Windsor.

That’s all for now, as the season continues I’ll offer up some more tips.