Spring cleanups made easy in Waukesha County

April’s weather can warm up quickly in the Lake Country/Waukesha County Area. Cleaning up the garden after a long winter can be a difficult task. Here are a few spring cleanup tips that will save you time and make cleaning up easier.

Spring Cleanups Made Easy in Waukesha County

Make a plan and set up priorities.
Work the sunny parts of the garden first, as these will start growing the earliest and will need your need your attention very soon. now.
Cut back perennials and native grasses using a hedge trimmer rather than by hand.
Start a compost pile to dispose of the yard waste, rather than making several trips to your municipal compost center.
Remove the small weeds that have begun to sprout,. Small weeds take less effort and time to remove than big weeds.
Spray weed killer on lawn grass that has invaded plant beds. (Caution is needed so as to not kill your perennials at the same time.)
Spread mulch or compost on planting beds before the perennials start growing. This can be done quicker without plant foliage in the way.
Edge planting beds with a sharpened spade when soil is wet. Compost the sod-soil mix for later use in lawn repair projects.
Divide perennials and native grasses. Have a spring garden party and invite your friends, sending them home with a new plant.
Prune shrubs with a rejuvenation technique that cuts to the ground 1/3 of the largest stems. This helps reduce the overall size of a shrub so that summer pruning is minimized.
Rotate rejuvenation pruning on shrubs over several years, so you don’t have to do them all at once.

Using a priority system, pruning, dividing, edging, and mulching your perennial beds each spring will help in saving you time and energy later in the season. Spring cleanups can become a challenge with our unpredictable spring weather, but if a little more time is spent each spring, you will find the cleanups getting easier so that your job in the garden does not become a month of weekends.

For more time-saving techniques on making spring cleanup easy, watch the video below.

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Spring cleanups made easy in Waukesha County

Spring Cleanups Made Easy in Waukesha County

Make a plan and set up priorities.

Work the sunny parts of the garden first, as these will start growing the earliest and will need your need your attention very soon. now.

Cut back perennials and native grasses using a hedge trimmer rather than by hand.

Start a compost pile to dispose of the yard waste, rather than making several trips to your municipal compost center.

Remove the small weeds that have begun to sprout,. Small weeds take less effort and time to remove than big weeds.

Spray weed killer on lawn grass that has invaded plant beds. (Caution is needed so as to not kill your perennials at the same time.)

Spread mulch or compost on planting beds before the perennials start growing. This can be done quicker without plant foliage in the way.

Edge planting beds with a sharpened spade when soil is wet. Compost the sod-soil mix for later use in lawn repair projects.

Divide perennials and native grasses. Have a spring garden party and invite your friends, sending them home with a new plant.

Prune shrubs with a rejuvenation technique that cuts to the ground 1/3 of the largest stems. This helps reduce the overall size of a shrub so that summer pruning is minimized.

Rotate rejuvenation pruning on shrubs over several years, so you don’t have to do them all at once.