My wife loves to see things clean, neat, and orderly. I have to say I agree with her. It shows how much you care about what is around you and what others think about you. This brings about a question. Can you do your spring cleanup to early? I would have to say as a life long resident of the extreme northeast that the answer to that question is a definite yes. The weather here is known for rapid changes. One day it can be 65 degrees and the very next day it can be 20 degrees and snowing. We also have some pretty fierce winds in the spring of the year. With all that being said I am hoping you can see where this is leading to.
Let’s say you go out and clean up all the damage from the winter snow, ice and wind storms on that wonderful early 65 degree day. The ground is probably still frozen making it easy to get out on the lawn and do some work. The very next day the temperature drops and the winds pick up and it begins to snow. Within a day or two you look out and it is like you never did any work in the yard at all. It is covered with broken tree branches and debris carelessly thrown from passing cars. You would probably wonder at that point if it was worth the time you spent cleaning up the previous day or so.
So you decide to wait a few weeks until you are sure the weather has finally taken a turn for the better and the strong spring winds have subsided. Now all that remains is for things to dry up so you can get out on the lawn and do the work of cleaning up. At this point the ground has thawed and the lawn is fairly soft. If you can get on the lawn without sinking in, it will be a good time to do some picking up. Clean up the old broken limbs and trash and remove and dead plants from the previous year. Any work like this is perfectly fine to do in the early part of the year. Don’t however be tempted to get out the rake and start raking your lawn of old leaves and dead grass right now. With the lawn being so soft and damp you endanger hurting the grass by putting a rake to it to early. You can actually pull the grass out by its roots and do much damage to your lawn.
Just take some time to survey the situation and try to decide whether you will do more harm than good by attacking your cleanup chores to soon. You have been the one maintaining your property for many years so nobody knows the property better than you do.
John Rowe The Yankee Gardener
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