◆ Featured Project
Patio Transformation: From Bare Gravel to a Finished Backyard
This one started as a graded gravel base with string lines pulled tight and ended as a paver patio with a charcoal border, new plantings, fresh mulch beds, and a stepping stone path down from the deck. Every paver was set by hand on a compacted base. That base is the part nobody sees, and it is the reason the surface stays flat through a New Hampshire winter instead of heaving in spring.
Seasonal Tips
Fall Is for Planting
Ask anyone when to plant a tree and they will say spring. Ask someone who plants them for a living and they will say fall. In September the soil is still warm from summer but the air has cooled off, so roots grow hard while the plant is no longer fighting heat up top. A shrub planted now builds roots all fall and is established by the time next summer arrives. Trees, shrubs, evergreens, perennials, and spring bulbs all go in beautifully in September and October.
Pro Tip
Roots need about six weeks in the ground before it freezes. On the Seacoast that means plants go in by mid to late October, so the projects that make the deadline are the ones planned now.
Lawn Corner: Something Digging Up Your Lawn at Night?
Skunks and raccoons flipping over patches of turf are the symptom. Grubs eating the roots underneath are the problem. Late August through September is the one window where treating them actually works, and it is the same window as fall overseeding. Treat, rake out the dead material, aerate, and seed, and the lawn goes into winter repaired instead of wrecked.
Company News
Eight New Articles on the Blog This Month
August was the busiest month the blog has had. Eight new articles went up covering hydrangeas that will not bloom, the five warning signs of a failing retaining wall, the right way to mulch, grub damage, fall planting, fall cleanup, bringing back a lawn that summer beat up, and why fall is the best season to build. All of it is written for Seacoast yards specifically.
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New: Dedicated Hardscaping Pages
If you have been searching for hardscape work near you, we built pages just for that: a full hardscaping overview plus local pages for Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, Hampton, and Stratham.
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Did You Know?
A patio or fire pit built in October has all winter for the base to settle and prove itself. When the first warm weekend hits in May, you are hosting on it instead of waiting on a contractor with everyone else in town.
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