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Nov 8, 2022

BestYard have done our fall leaf clean up for a few years now and we really appreciate this service!! We have a dozen trees in our small backyard so over the years we have more and more leaves as we get older. BestYard are good at communication and getting the job done!

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Wonderful job, team. The fall yard cleanup was perfect and the house looks great again!

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Fireproof your landscape

Credit: Colorado State University Extension – Fire-Resistant Landscaping – 6.303

 

Homeowners need to know how landscaping can help protect their homes.

Planting and maintaining a “defensible space” of a landscape is more difficult to ignite and can offer significant fire protection.

Steps to become more fire-wise with your landscapes:

  • Avoid placing plants too close together.

Spacing plants apart from one another keeps the fire from traveling between them or “climbing” up smaller bushes into the more flammable branches of nearby trees.

  • Remove flammable debris. 

Dead trees, shrubs, and small plants growing close to or underneath larger trees will fuel a fire and should be removed.

Keep gutters clean, and make sure plants are well-watered.

Mow natural grasses and weeds to six inches or less within 30 feet of structures to prevent flames from traveling across a yard.

  • Replace flammable landscaping with fire-resistant plants and mulch. 

Incorporating perennials instead of low-moisture shrubs and using gravel instead of bark mulch can provide better fire barriers to a home.

Fire-resistant plants are high in moisture, have fewer leaves or needles, stay close to the ground, and do not require significant pruning and re-seeding following a fire. Pavers, concrete, and brick are best for patios.

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Give your sprinkler system a tune-up

Much like any appliance in your home, sprinkler systems need a tune-up.

Efficient tune ups may include:

  • Running each sprinkler zone and looking for broken heads or dirty nozzles where the spray does not look consistent.
  • Making sure that nozzles are not mis-aligned and spraying rocks or concrete instead of the lawn. Straighten any sprinkler heads that are leaning to the side.
  • Make sure there is even drip irrigation while it is operating to be sure that emitters are not missing and to make sure all plants are getting water evenly.
  • Look for leaks and puddles in the landscape. If you see this or a zone is not working properly, you may have a leak.
  • Check to your sprinkler controller/time/clock are set up efficiently. Being able to modify the program is key to saving water.
  • Replace the controller battery.

Don’t forget to do seasonal adjustments as well.

During the cooler Spring and Fall days, less water is needed than during the hottest summer days.

Whether you make these adjustments yourself or us a Smart Controller, these tune ups can result in substantial savings of both money and water.

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Use a drip system to water the plants in your landscape

Why use drip irrigation?

Drip irrigation systems save water by controlling a slow drip to the roots of the plants.

Pipes can be either above the surface or buried below the soil to target the root zone and minimize evaporation.

When partnered with smart irrigation technologies, drip irrigation helps maximize water resources more efficiently.

Keep in mind that roots follow water, if you are watering only the top 3 – 4 inches, your trees and shrubs are going to grow shallow roots which could lead to problems during periods of prolonged drought and high winds.

Why use a drip system to water the plants in your landscape:

1. It helps to save water by reducing water loss due to surface evaporation and run-off.

2. Saves water by directly applying water to the plant’s root zone and not to the surrounding area.

3. Drip irrigation allows you to provide the correct amount of water based on the current climatic conditions.

4. Drip emitters allow moisture levels to be kept at an optimal range allowing plant productivity and quality to improve.

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

It is planting season – plant “smart” trees

The ground is warm, we shouldn’t have any more freezes (fingers crossed),

sprinkler systems are turned on and nurseries are getting truck deliveries of new plants daily.

Now is a great time to visit your local nursery or garden center and check out some of spring’s best “smart” plants.

Local nurseries and garden centers do a great job of bringing in plants that are “smart” for this area, which have been shown to work in Colorado.

In this dry climate, we need to plant trees and plants that will thrive.

Plant native and drought-resistant plants and trees.

These can handle the heat, the clay, and the lack of moisture and still thrive.

5 Examples of “smart” trees and plants:

  1. Western or Northern Catalpa
  2. Gambel Oak
  3. Silver Fountain Butterfly Bush
  4. Arnold Red Honeysuckle
  5. Yellow flowering or Golden Current

With warmer weather here, get your drought-tolerant, xeric, and native plants in the ground as soon as you can!

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Container Gardens for All Ages and Abilities

Many people live where they don’t have space for a garden. A container garden is the perfect solution for all ages and all abilities. Almost anything can be grown in a container, except a large tree.

One of the most manageable containers is a hanging basket. There are so many available, you can purchase one already done, or you can customize it and put it together yourself. You can even grow vegetables like cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, or strawberries in a hanging basket.

Someone with limited space can have beauty and function with a mixed container of veggies and flowers. Containers can have vertical elements like tomatoes, pole beans, and vines like Clematis or morning glory. The center can also be something bushy like a pepper plant.

You can have carrots or lettuce around the vertical element and a cucumber, tiny pumpkin,
or trailing flowers like verbena, or calibrachoa, or make it all edible with edible flowers like nasturtium.

How to create a quick combo planter perfect for right outside the door.

  1.     Choose the container and make sure it has proper drainage.
  2.     Fill the container with good potting soil
  3.     Choose plants that have compatible growing needs – Sun vs. shade, more water or less, etc.
  4.     Put plants in – thriller, spiller, chiller – can be centered or tall in back, short in front.
  5.     Water well
  6.     Mulch
  7.     Fertilize a couple of weeks later.

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Invite beneficial bugs to your yard

There are those of us who don’t relish contact with insects and worms while working in the yard, but many of them are actually quite beneficial.
For instance:

  • Ladybugs and lacewings prey upon damaging aphids and whiteflies.
  • Ground beetles eat caterpillars and Colorado potato beetles, so they may serve an essential function in your garden.

You’ve created an ecosystem by establishing your landscape, and many of those insects serve a purpose.

If pests are damaging your plants, you can consult a landscape professional or a garden center to bring in more of those beneficial insects.

If you find exotic plant species like bindweed, knapweed, or Canada thistle wreaking havoc on your landscape,

you can even call the Department of Agriculture for insect assistance.

Their Request-a-Bug service operates an insectary that provides biological pest controls—aka, bugs that prey upon those invasive plants.

Colorado residents may request the biocontrols for a fee, and if supplies are sufficient,  the Department of Ag will ship them to you, along with instructions for releasing them in your landscape.
Fees currently run around $30 depending on the request, and they’re due upon delivery.

Supplies are limited and vary from year to year. Consequently, the Insectary may be unable to provide mites for every request per season.

The advantages of biological controls include lessening or eliminating the use of pesticides and establishing useful populations of predatory insects.

As with other treatments, more than one control might be required.

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Arbor Day: Plant native trees and shrubs

  • Why plant native trees?

1.     They are inherently adapted to this area. (Soils, temperature fluctuations, climate)
2.     Once established, can it do without supplemental fertilization, watering, pruning?
3.     Planting these types of trees and shrubs helps maintain BIODIVERSITY. These trees help birds, butterflies, and other wildlife that can be crowded out by urban development.

  • Which native trees are recommended?

Bigtooth Maple, Seedless Boxelder such as ‘Sensation’ Maple, Bur Oak, Gambel Oak, Rocky Mountain Birch, Native-collected Quaking Aspen, American Elm, Pinion Pine, Hackberry, Rocky Mountain Juniper, Bristlecone Pine.

  • What is the key to successful planting?

Put the right planting in the right place! Research the tree or shrub you are thinking about planting.

  • Consider: Does the tree prefer full sun? Shade? Ultimate size? Height and width? Messy fruit produced?
  • Fall color? Showy or inconspicuous flowers? Insect and disease proclivities?
  • Fast growing? Slow growing? Soft wooded? Year-round beauty or interest?

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Is your yard ready to party?

  • #1 – Wake up your lawn with a soak—not a splash—of water.
    • Since the past winter has been very dry, we need to apply water as Mother Nature does during an ideal springtime.
    • Spring rains, that soak in and rain again in seven-day to ten-day cycles, are great for the lawn.
    • Soak the lawn well and allow the top ½ inch of the soil to dry out. Then soak it again.
  • #2 – Aerate.
    • After an early soaking, aerate the turf with an aeration machine.
    • The moisture makes the ground soft for the aerator to pull out good-sized plugs from the turf and roots.
    • The holes left behind let water, air, and nutrients into the root zone where they do the most good.
    • Water again soon after aerating as the holes will make the ground dry out faster than before.
      Leave the plugs on top of the grass. The lawnmower will have them all broken up before the party.
    • They’ll add nutrients in the meantime as they dissolve.
  • #3 – Fertilize.
    • After aerating is the best time to fertilize because the aeration holes have made way for nutrients to head straight down to the roots.
    • Spring is when grass builds the roots that will support the lawn all season long.
    • Think about those roots gobbling up fertilizer, and know they’re doing their job to get ready for the party.
  • #4 – Unwelcome the weeds. 
    • Nothing detracts more from an otherwise beautiful lawn than yellow dandelion flowers or other weeds.
    • Get after these party-crashers early, and you will have fewer weeds to deal with as the season goes on.

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Need spring color now? Plant some pansies

If you’re really feeling the itch to get out and garden, consider planting some cool-hardy pansies.

When you go pick out your pansies:

  • Check with the garden center staff that the flowers you are purchasing are ready to plant.
    • Pansies should be hardened off before putting them in the ground.
    • They are probably hardened off and ready to plant if they have been kept outdoors at the garden center.
  • Be aware that pansies that haven’t yet been hardened off need some protected outside time to get used to the outdoors.
    • They need to adjust to night-time temps more than they need sunshine.
    • Keep them outside on the patio in a protected area for about five nights before planting. If there is a frost or hard freeze, bring them indoors.
  • Keep an eye on the temperatures at night. Once planted, pansies are frost-hardy but will be seriously damaged by a hard freeze.
    • If temps fall below 28 degrees, protect the plants from freeze damage like you would annuals in the early fall.
    • Cover them with sheets, blankets, or towels (but not plastic).

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

Spring snow

Springtime in the Rockies is usually a roller-coaster ride of nice days with warmer temps and colder days that bring heavy snows.

And March, as we all know, tends to be the snowiest month. For many plants, this transition time into spring can be the most challenging time of year. Snowfalls from this point forward tend to pack more moisture, and that added weight is more stressful on plants.

Here are some coping strategies to help your plants:

  • Deciduous trees:

Damp snow will cling to every branch and twig, and the cumulative effect can lead to cracked and broken limbs. If it’s possible to reach high in the tree with a long pole – such as a broom handle that has an extension, it’s a good practice to gently shake snow from the tree. Be sure to work from the bottom of the tree upward, so that when snow falls from the higher branches it does not add more weight to already snow-laden lower ones.

Even later storms that drop snow on trees that have started to leaf out will hold more snow as it clings to the leaves. Gently shaking limbs in these storms is even more critical. If there’s a hard freeze after trees break bud – either leaf bud or flower – it will normally kill those buds. Leaves will come back from a secondary bud, but flowers will not bud again and this will also mean fruit loss. The good news is the freeze will also kill seed buds on trees like ash and elm that drop seeds that require clean-up later.

  • Shrub care:

Many herbaceous shrubs have weak wood and long, pliable branches that make them susceptible to wind and snow damage. Examples include Russian sage, golden elder, sumac, pussy willow, blue mist spirea and dark night spirea.

Any branch that has been broken by the weather (and this includes trees) should be pruned back. Those rips and breaks are an open invitation to pests and disease of all kinds.

  • Protect these plants with timely pruning:

A little maintenance now can save more work and treatment costs later.

  • Ornamental grasses:

Most people prefer to leave dried ornamental grasses standing in the garden for the winter because of the beauty provided by their shape and swaying plumes. Under heavy snows, however, many of these grasses can be crushed, so they should be protected or pruned beforehand.

  • Broken and bent grasses:

These grasses won’t bounce back to their upright shape, so they should be cut back. Cutting these plants back after a March snowfall is actually good timing since it’s best to have old growth well out of the way before new shoots emerge.

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Source: customer-service@bestyard.com in collaboration with Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado

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