Checklist for Spring Yard Cleanup: The Best Spring Cleaning Activities
Freshly planted flowerbeds and landscaping adds to the beauty of your home. Spring cleaning includes not just the inside, but the outside. A cluttered yard overrun with weeds and debris diminishes the exterior of the home. Cleaning up the yard for spring prevents more work later and enhances the look of your lawn.
To help you get started cleaning up the yard for spring, here is a spring clean up check list.
In this blog we will discuss:
A Smart Spring Cleanup Creates a Healthy, Beautiful Yard
Early yard work prevents the collection of debris on your lawn. Amassing a large amount of weeds, debris, and dead leaves means more effort will be needed to clean up. The key is removing debris, pruning, and assessing any damage to your yard. Taking time to clean up your yard not only leaves your yard looking beautiful and boosts your curb appeal, it gives you a canvass for fun landscaping ideas that you can make on your own!
Spring Cleanup Essentials: What Every Yard Needs
The best way to track all the essentials needed is to create a spring yard cleanup checklist. What does spring cleanup include:
- Raking: Raking removes the dead leaves, debris, and grass from your yard. You will need a rake that is appropriate for your height and strength. Gloves to prevent blisters and a tarp or trash bag to collect the leaves.
- Weeding: Weeding is removing unwanted plants. Some simple tools to use are hoes and trowels.
Tip: How to prevent weeds? If you do not want the weeds to return, spread a quality mulch or weed killer. It is imperative that you use the appropriate safety equipment with weed killer. These include safety goggles and masks.
- Pruning: Pruning involves cutting off limbs, branches or buds to improve the health of the tree or plan. The essential tools are hand pruners or shears, loppers, and safety gloves.
- Lawn edging: Lawn edging is creating a barrier that prevents grass roots from growing into areas that it does belong. A small yard only requires a manual edger but more physical effort. Larger yards may require power edgers that are gas or electrically powered. For safety, wear gloves and eye protection goggles.
- Fertilizing: Fertilizing is adding fertilizer to the soil to increase its nutrients. A fertilizer spreader. It is recommended that you use safety gloves and goggles.
Maximize Your Time With A Weekend Game-Plan!
Create a spring yard cleanup checklist to track what tasks you are doing and the best time to do it. For example here is a breakdown of a weekend:
Saturday AM: Debris removal, weeding/raking. Sat PM: Mow/trim grass and bushes and refresh mulch in flower beds.
Sunday AM: Fertilize, overseed bare spots. Sunday PM: Powerwash walkways/patios/outdoor furniture.
Bonus Tip: Powerwash wood such as patios/decks/fence and do watersealing at the very end so it can dry overnight to protect for the season.
Advice: If you want to finish quickly, more people to help means less work. When practical, hire a family member or local teen.
Exterior Spring Cleaning Beyond the Lawn
There is more to spring cleaning than just the lawn. Exterior spring cleaning includes the outside fixtures of the home. Focus on cleaning the gutters, power-washing the patios, clearing walkways, and checking irrigation systems.
- Cleaning Gutters: Clogged gutters can cause water to fill up. This water can cause your roof and shingles to deteriorate. Cleaning the gutters prevents this from occuring.
- Power-washing the patio: Power-washing the patio destroys any mold or mildew, prevents damage, and improves air quality.
- Cleaning walkways: Sweeping the walkway ensures a safe path to walk on.
- Checking Irrigation Systems: Inspect the irrigation system to make sure it is running properly. The irrigation system is used to reduce water waste, save money, and maintain a healthy landscape.
These tasks may seem irrelevant; however; expanding the reach of your lawn care increases the appeal of your home.
How Do I Prepare My Yard for Spring the Right Way?
How do I prepare my yard for spring cleaning?
The best practice is to create a checklist which guarantees that you have all the necessary equipment and safety equipment.When working on spring yard cleanup it is important to work at your own pace. Rushing to mow your lawn or watering your lawn too early can cause accidents or damage your lawn. Review your checklist and make sure it coincides with the weather conditions.
Start Fresh This Spring with Galvan’s Lawn & Landscape
Get started on your lawn prep today! Do not forget to ask for help if needed. Spring yard cleanup is beneficial. If done early enough by spring a beautiful landscape will result. The plants and trees will grow and the value of your home will increase.
Seeking expert help?
Contact Galvan’s Lawn and Landscape.
