Winter Season Mulching Guide: How To Protect Your Plants During Winter

Mulching is crucial; during spring, you mulch your plants to suppress weed growth, retain moisture, keep the soil warm, and feed the plants. However, in winter, you mulch your garden to protect your soil and plant roots from the extreme temperatures and winter freezes.  So, winter mulching is the best way to protect plants while they are […]

Landscaping Tips To Help Your Plants Survive The Winter

Landscaping is the key to making sure your plants stay alive in the winter. It’s in your best interest to take a proactive approach now rather than later, as the weather is actively getting colder. By following these landscaping tips, you’ll be sure to have plants that are alive and healthy by the time spring […]

Why is Spring Asphalt Maintenance so Significant?

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This past week in central Maryland, we enjoyed some gorgeous weather, approaching 70 degrees! This is a clear sign that Spring 2021 is indeed on its way after a lonely winter during a pandemic. This good weather means it’s the time of year to do some asphalt maintenance. This is because winter weather can do […]

3 Tips to Help Protect Your Asphalt from Winter Weather

When temperatures drop in the winter months it can be more difficult to keep your asphalt maintained properly. Throughout the winter, the changes in temperature and moisture levels mean that your asphalt is freezing and thawing constantly. Water expands as it freezes and if it happens to find its way into small cracks or potholes […]

Quick Tips to Avoid Pothole Damage

Our first winter blast – Blizzard Jonas – blanketed Maryland and many other states nationwide with upwards of two feet of snow! Now, many of you may be left are re-evaluating your snow removal plan, searching for a new shovel and feeling overwhelmed by the big, not-so-beautiful white and brown piles of snow that have […]

Maintaining Hardscaping In the Winter

When you think of your patio and hardscaping wear and tear, what time of the year do you think of? Spring showers, summer storms, or all the leaves of autumn might come to mind. It might surprise you to learn then that the majority of the damage done to your hardscaping happens in the winter. […]