Spring and Fall Clean Up

We offer Spring and Fall cleanup service to help beautify your home. Fall leaves and twigs can make a huge mess and be very difficult to clean properly. Our crews thoroughly and efficiently move through your yard and planter beds removing any unwanted items that have found there way into all the nooks and crannies. Along with annuals and perennials that must be trimmed for proper growth in the spring, we take care of everything that is involved in a proper Fall cleanup.

Our Spring cleanup service provides you with a great looking landscape to start off the year. We meticulously work through your yard giving it the best possible look.. Add our trimming service to take care of any woody buildup in your landscape and you will be set for the year ahead.

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Fall Fertilization Fall is a great time to fertilize your plants and lawn! Help your flowers, shrubs and trees prepare for winter and spring by fertilizing now. For your flower beds sprinkle some time release or slow release fertilizer. It save a busy gardener time by only having to apply it twice a year. It breaks down slowly, 4-6 months, releasing nutrients in a slow and dependable way. Our favorite here at the nursery is our Tree and Shrub Fertilizer which as the name states is great for your trees and shrubs also. It helps sustains during winter and kicks starts in spring. An easy way to remember when to fertilize with Tree and Shrub Fertilizer is to do it around Daylight Savings time, twice a year. To prepare your lawns we have a specially designed lawn fertilizer for the Magic Valley, called Winterizer. It does not promote growth, but helps green it up and prepare the roots for winter, for a quick recovery in the spring. If you have weeds and/or dandelions in your lawn we suggest you use Weed Free Zone in combination with Winterizer. It works with the cooler weather to stop the weeds from hibernating in the lawn during winter. This works as a preventer in the spring also. A little work now goes a long way for a weed free lawn next summer.. Fall Clean-Up for your Fruit Trees Prepare your Fruit Trees for a Healthier Spring. Some plant pathogens (bacteria, fungi, etc.) can lie dormant during the winter months. They “rest” in fallen leaves at the base of your fruit trees or in dried fruit still hanging on the branches. Left alone these pathogens re-infect the fruit year after year. That’s why it’s recommended that you do a fall clean up. Clear away the leaf litter underneath your fruit trees and remove any remaining fruit. Finally spray with a sulfur based fungicide (except on apricots) coating the branches until the material starts to drip. You don’t need to oversaturate with this spray. Prune lightly a few days later if needed. Never prune immediately after you spray a chemical control. That can be hazardous because the chemicals are the more reactive when wet. Follow this tip and you’ll be on your way to a great harvest. Painting your Tree Trunks With the colder weather coming and snow soon to fly, it is a great time to paint your younger trees trunks with a coat of white latex paint from the ground up to the first set of limbs. White paint helps to reflex snow and prevents sun burns from appearing on the tree trunks next spring. The trees that need painting include Quaking Aspens, White Birch, Maples, Lindens, Locusts, Flowering Crabs and Flower Plums. It’s also a great idea to put in a tablespoon of insecticide in the paint. This seals up any insect holes that might have burrowed their way into the tree trunks during the previous year. This will shut off their air circulation and the insects will die without doing further damage next spring. Ask your local paint store for some mistinted white latex paint. They will sell it pretty cheap to get rid of it and it will help your trees be insect free in the springtime. Tree Wounds During the fall it seems like everything is slowly shutting down and preparing to rest for the winter. Everything of course except pesky ants, ear wigs, beetles and boars, which are trying to find a nice protected area to make nests for the winter. Besides scampering under our doors and cracks in our windows, these insects are also getting into any open wounds in our trees and shrubs. Wounds caused by deep pruning, late pruning and the occasional wind storm that knocks branches to the ground. These open wounds make your trees and shrubs easy targets for insects to burrow in and make homes which cause long term damage when spring and summer come along. Tree and shrub wounds need to be taken care of now. As your trees and shrubs are going dormant, they are going to stop growing and producing sap.  Here is an idea to keep the bugs away: 1.)   Now would be the time to apply a pruning putty or a spray-on sealing paint. 2.)   Dilute Elmer’s Glue and paint it on cut rose ends this fall. Don’t prune roses in winter. Spring Pruning

Most gardeners are often too busy in the spring to start thinking about next year. But keep in mind that spring flowering shrubs should be pruned after the shrub has finished blooming. There are several reasons to prune shrubs. You prune to enhance overall shape and appearance, to promote healthy new growth and to encourage abundant flower buds to bloom the following season. For successful pruning, it’s important to understand what to remove, and that every plant requires a slightly different method. Typically, there is a six-week window during which you can prune spring-blooming shrubs, so don’t procrastinate; these shrubs begin forming the buds for next years blooms in midsummer. If you wait too long to prune, you’ll run the risk of removing next year blossoms. Here’s a list of spring blooming shrubs that should be pruned just after flowering in the spring: barberry, currant, flowering cherry, flowering dogwood, flowering quince, forsythia, honeysuckle, lilac, magnolia, mountain laurel, redbud, rhododendron, azalea, smoke tree, spirea, viburnum, weigela, wisteria.

Welcome to Spring

Spring brings with it such a wide array of flowers in a variety of colors. The pastel pinks, yellows and reds are now popping out of their buds to say “Welcome to Spring”. Now is the time to begin planting grapevines, gooseberry, elderberry plants, asparagus roots, seed potatoes and onion sets. These are tough, cold hardy plants, roots and tubers that can be planted right now while supplies last. They will be great additions to your yard or garden plus a natural home grown food source. It’s also time to plant now so the plants and trees can become partially rooted before the hot summer comes this year. Tulips, daffodils and crocus that were planted last fall are beginning to bloom thanks to the turning of spring season. They are also a welcoming sign to spring. With their variety of brilliant colors, the bulbs help get spring off to a wonderful start with blooming trees and plants later to come. Don’t let spring pass you by this year.

Soil Preparation for your Vegetable Garden

If you are dreaming of fresh vegetables growing in your backyard, now is a great time to prepare your soil. Especially if you are using organic matter or fertilizers they should be mixed into the soil two or three weeks prior to planting. Organic fertilizers and soil conditioners are slow working in general and take time to get started. Our Fox Farm and Happy Frog Organic line has several soil amendments to choose from. Our favorite for this time of year is the Jump Start. It contains a gentle formula that is high in phosphorus which encourages vigorous root development. It also contains calcium which buffers acidic soils and boosts the plants ability to fight off diseases by strengthening cell walls. For the garden of your dreams this provides the prefect jump start.