Your Landscape and Arizona Summer Heat

Feeling the summer heat?  So is the greenscape around your commercial property. This season, lawns can be separated as those who have and those who have not.  Many lawns even with irrigation are showing stress where sprinkler heads need adjusting and fine tuning to keep up with the dry conditions.

With the monsoon humidity, lawn’s can be seen with summer patch diseases starting.  The best remedy for such disease is to watch watering closely, allowing the turf to dry out in between irrigation cycles.  We recommend watering every other day for longer duration to promote deep rooting as the first step to help ward off the fungi from thriving.  Often aerating and seeding with resistant cultivars of turf grass is also required in the fall.

If you don’t have irrigation, you must remain diligent with your efforts to hand water when possible.  Sometimes allowing the lawn to slowly go dormant is the best solution rather than water and then let the turf grass crash and burn when you go away for a week vacation.  Turf types such as fescue handle the dormant stage easily and will bounce back into their prime once cool nighttime temperatures and moisture from Mother Nature return.

Here at Greens Keeper Landscape Maintenance, LLC. we have been pruning our landscapes.  Thinning and contour pruning plants that have flowered already is best done once flowering is complete and springs growth has almost fully hardened off.  As we prune we identify the perennial weeds that birds have spread and cull them from the ornamentals.

With the scattered thunderstorms summer annual weeds such as crabgrass, prostrate spurge, and purslane are having a field day.  We have been busy applying vegetation control for these pesky weeds to help keep mulch beds and curbing clean and presentable.  At times, nothing beats the elbow grease required to hand weed flowers, juniper beds, and the center of shrubs.

Now is the best time to plan major landscape changes for your property.  By the time you design and coordinate the use for your yard summer will be at a close.   Fall is the best time for planting!  We can help with all facets of your project no matter what size and scale.   As the seasons change, so should your landscape!  There are always a few plants that should be moved, divided, or just downright removed. 

At Greens Keeper Landscape we want you to know how to take care of your property.  If you don’t want the headache of landscape maintenance we take care of your landscape for you.  To find out how we can help just give us a call at 623-848-8277.

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Greens Keeper Landscape Maintenance, LLC
623-848-8277
http://www.commerciallandscapecare.com
greenskeeperllc@cox.net