Landscape and Gardening Tips for May

Landscape & Gardening Tips – May

Hawks Landscape Designers and Installation Crews:

Our designers and installers are working together creating outdoor spaces for residential and commercial clients from tree and shrub plantings to elaborate outdoor spaces.
Our installers are re-mulching existing landscape beds, if needed. A one-inch top dressing of shredded bark mulch freshens the look of the bed and helps reduce weeds.

Hawks Landscape Maintenance staff:

Later this month, our lawn care crews will begin the second application of our 5-Step Lawn Fertilization Program which includes a granular slow release fertilizer (with iron) and a liquid broad leaf weed killer.
Due to the late snow in April, crews will be core aerating lawns later this month to reduce compaction, increase oxygenation and promote healthy microorganisms which in turn create greener, thicker lawns and less thatch. Once the grass starts growing, crews will be mowing lawns weekly to a height of 3-inches.
Our Horticulturists are checking trees and shrubs for diseases and insect problems.
Arborists are checking and spraying for Pine Sawfly larva. Plus injecting and spraying for Apple Scab.
Our plant bed maintenance crews are pruning out winter damage on shrubs.
They are also busy deadheading daffodils and tulips. They won’t cut off the greens now however, as they are vital in regenerating the bulb for next spring.

You should:

Install annuals and vegetables as the weather permits.
Harden off seedlings for your garden that have been started indoors. Move them outside each morning to a shaded, sheltered spot. Slowly increase time and light intensity.