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Materials, if needed, are charged separately and can be sourced by the client or picked up by our team.
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This fall
Leaves fall in waves from October into November. One cleanup leaves the lawn buried again. Weekly visits keep it from sitting under a wet mat. Light drops get mulched back in. Heavy ones get hauled. The last mow is left taller so the grass goes into winter with cover.
Beds get closed before a hard freeze. Diseased plants come out. Bulbs and divisions go in while the soil can still be worked. Tender bulbs are lifted after frost. Hoses and irrigation are drained so they do not freeze.
Chicago clay packs down by the end of the year. Vegetable beds get loosened, composted, and covered with winter rye. Garlic goes in now. The lawn gets core aeration, a fall feed, and seed in the thin spots so spring is not a recovery job.
Leaf and mow — $125 a visit, or $400 for 4 visits
- Weekly visits
- Mulch light drops, haul heavy ones
- Final mow at 2.5–3 inches
Garden shutdown — $350
- Pull annuals and diseased plants
- Leave sturdy stems for habitat, if desired
- Edge and compost beds
- Plant spring bulbs
- Divide hostas, daylilies, iris
- Light shrub pruning
- Lift dahlias, cannas, glads after frost
- Drain hoses, store containers, blow out irrigation
Next-year reset — $650
- Vegetable beds: loosen clay, compost, winter rye
- Garlic planting
- Core aeration
- Fall feed
- Spot seeding
- Planting (per sq ft): $2
- Mowing (per sq ft): $0.05
- Sheet mulching (per sq ft): $1
Labor: $40 an hour
- Weeding
- Edging
- Raking
- Mulching
- Cutting beds back
- Shrub trimming
- Watering
- Compost setup
- Compost education
- Compost maintenance
- Junk cleanup
- Garbage can cleaning
Winter essentials
- Snow shoveling
- Salting
- Holiday lights
- Holiday decorations
- Window cleaning
- Gutter cleaning
- Winterizing the porch