Drag the handle. That's one season on a house in Bedford — beds cut in, stone walk laid, wall built, and a lawn that finally holds through August.
Which is why it always feels like it happened suddenly. Here's the order it actually happens in.
Bare patches appear where the soil compacted. Still green from a distance. Entirely fixable with aeration and overseeding.
Crabgrass fills what the lawn gave up, beds lose their edge, and shrubs planted twenty years ago start swallowing the windows.
Now it's not maintenance, it's renovation — strip, regrade, re-lay. Three or four times what fixing it in season one would have cost.
Straight answers — and two of the three don't need us yet.
Thin in places, but it's still a lawn.
Planted when the place was built and never really cut back.
And the front of the house lets the rest of it down.
Typical southern New Hampshire numbers for an average front yard. Every row is the same yard, one season later.
Aeration, overseeding, edging and mulch — then the lawn recovers on its own.
Weed control, hard pruning, re-cut beds, patch the worst of the turf. Two visits, and a season to look right.
Strip, regrade, re-lay turf, replace shrubs that are past saving. A full project, and a season of nothing to look at.
We'll walk the property, tell you honestly which of the three you're in, and put a plan and a number in writing. If it's a September afternoon with a rake, we'll tell you that — that's how we've stayed busy for twenty-seven years.
No subcontractors, no surprises on the invoice. The crew that quotes it is the crew that does it.
Beds, walks, walls and plantings, drawn before anything gets dug.
Aeration, overseeding and a programme that suits New Hampshire soil.
Pruning, removals and the storm work nobody wants to do.
Spring clean-ups, autumn leaves, and snow when it comes.
Photographed the day we finished. Addresses on request — plenty of our customers are happy to talk to you.
Hudson · full front renovationMerrimack · the day we quoted itAmherst · stone walk & wall"Told me my lawn needed aeration and seed, not a new lawn. Saved me about four thousand dollars in his first ten minutes here."
"Same three lads every week for six years. They know the dog, they know the gate, nothing ever gets left open."
"We listed in May and the agent used the front-of-house photo as the main shot. That was their work."
Tell us what's going on and we'll come look. Free, no pressure, and we'll tell you honestly if you don't need us yet.