Spring cleaning your lawn with a Bobcat Mower is best.

Even if you live on a smaller piece of property, cleaning it up for spring can be a big job. Your local landscape pros are ready to help you get your spring cleanup done. Spring cleaning your lawn needs to be done so you can enjoy a beautiful, season-ready property without all the time, effort, and hassle.

We know life can get busy and get in the way of your yard cleanup and maintenance. But if you’re not consistent and neglect cleaning up your yard for too long, your lawn and landscaping can become unhealthy. An unkempt yard can also decrease your home’s curb appeal or make a business look uninviting. Professional yard cleanup services can keep your lawn looking healthy so that it can grow and thrive year-round.

Spring cleanup service involves numerous aspects such as:

• Clearing away leaves, branches, and clutter
• Hauling away and composting debris
• Mowing the grass
• Re-edging and cleaning garden and flower beds
• Redefining the borders of the lawn
• Reseed damaged areas of the lawn
• Pruning and trimming trees and shrubs
• Aeration

In this first category of spring yard cleanup tasks, you will be picking up after Old Man Winter and any messy neighbors. Roll up your sleeves and start removing litter, dog feces, dead grass, leaves, pinecones, and debris on lawns. Next head to your gardens and remove dead leaves and stalks on perennials. Wear some heavy work gloves for this task, especially litter that may contain broken glass. Tackle the unpleasant task of dog waste disposal. Don’t compost dog or cat feces; they contain pathogens. Consider taking action to help keep other people’s dogs from defecating on your property by researching dog repellents.

Spring cleanup in the perennial bed begins with removing any dead leaves and stalks from perennials and ornamental grasses that you didn’t remove in fall. First is lawn care. If you raked leaves thoroughly in the fall, you’ve probably avoided the fungal disease known as snow mold. Inevitably, there will still be some stray leaves to rake and raking helps control thatch build-up on lawns. While you’re raking the lawn, you’ll also want to remove pinecones or limbs. Pinecones don’t break down easily in a compost bin unless they are first shredded.

In the Northern United States, you can start new lawns in spring or overseed an established lawn However, if you will be applying a reemerging herbicide in spring to control crabgrass in an existing lawn, it is better to overseed in the fall.

Wait until temperatures have been consistently reaching at least 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Trying to cut grass that hasn’t fully thawed from its winter nap can damage the tender blades. Make sure your grass is dry. Determine that your grass has reached the proper height. The optimum height of the cool-season grasses we have in New Jersey is generally about 2”-2.5”. But remember, that’s post-cutting height. When you mow you should take off no more than one-third of the height of the grass, so your pre-cutting measurement should be about 3”-3.75” for most cool-season grasses.

No one wants to take a tape measure out every time they go to mow the lawn. Here’s a tip for setting your lawnmower height: Set the height of your blade and leave it there. Mark the wheel of your lawnmower with a line for your minimum pre-cutting. Then draw an arrow to it so you can tell which way is “up” when the wheels rotate. When the grass grows tall enough to meet the line, it’s time to cut.

The WB700 zero-turn mower is a maneuverable, mid-size walk-behind machine with a powerful hydraulic drive that fights operator fatigue and minimizes ground disturbance.

Features may include:

• Compact size provides precision
• Maneuverability for mowing around obstacles and highly landscaped environments
• Rugged TufDeck™ cutting system

Stability. Agility. Profitability. With a compact size, extra ground clearance and large drive tires, the ZS4000 gets over and around obstacles and on to the next job.

Features may include:

• Vibration-dampening platform technology
• Hydrostatic transmission delivers powerful torque, smooth power output
• Easy access maintenance
• Fuel capacity up to 6.5 gallons
• Mower Deck: DuraDeck™ Cutting System
• Fore-Aft Adjust: Flip Up and Latch
• Seat Type Operator Pad tethered, removable
• Discharge type chute flexible molded polymer

Let our power equipment team advise you on the right mowers and pricing to meet your needs.