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Fall Cleanup: Prepare Your Yard for a Healthy Spring
Fall is more than just beautiful leaves—it’s the perfect time to prepare your lawn and landscape for the cold months ahead. A proper fall cleanup can improve curb appeal, protect your lawn, and make spring maintenance much easier.
Here are the key cleanup services we recommend from 606 Land & Snow.
1. 🍁 Leaf Removal & Lawn Cleanup
A thick layer of leaves can block sunlight and trap moisture against the grass, potentially leading to bare or unhealthy areas. Regular removal—or properly mulching leaves into the lawn—helps keep turf healthier going into winter.
Our recommendation: Schedule cleanups throughout peak leaf season rather than waiting until the entire yard is covered.
2. 🌱 Final Mowing & Lawn Preparation
Your lawn may continue growing into the cooler months. Keeping up with the final cuts and avoiding excessively tall grass helps prepare the turf for winter.
Our recommendation: Continue mowing as needed until growth slows, while adjusting mowing height appropriately for your grass type.
3. 🌿 Garden Bed & Plant Cleanup
Remove weeds, diseased plant material, and excessive debris from garden beds. However, not everything needs to be cut back—some healthy perennials and grasses can provide winter habitat and food for wildlife.
Our recommendation: Take a selective approach rather than clearing every plant completely.
4. 🍂 Mulching & Protecting Garden Beds
A properly applied layer of mulch can help protect plant roots, conserve moisture, and provide insulation as temperatures drop.
Our recommendation: Refresh mulch where needed, but avoid piling it directly against tree trunks or plant stems.
5. 🌳 Tree, Shrub & Branch Cleanup
Fall is a good opportunity to identify and remove dead, damaged, or problematic branches before winter weather arrives.
Our recommendation: Focus on branches that are dead, damaged, or creating a safety concern rather than heavily pruning everything.
6. 🧹 Final Property Cleanup
A professional fall cleanup should finish with the small details—clearing leaves and debris from lawns, walkways, patios, landscape beds, and other visible areas.
Our recommendation: Do a final cleanup after most leaves have fallen, then remove remaining debris before winter sets in.
Why Choose 606 Land & Snow?
At 606 Land & Snow, we make fall cleanup simple and hassle-free. Our team can handle the heavy lifting while helping keep your lawn and landscape ready for winter and positioned for a better spring.
Whether you need leaf removal, lawn mowing, garden bed cleanup, mulching, shrub maintenance, or a complete fall cleanup, we're ready to help.
Final Thoughts
A little preparation in the fall can save you time and headaches when spring arrives. The goal isn't simply to make your yard look clean—it's to protect your lawn, manage debris, and prepare your landscape for the next growing season.
Don't let the leaves take over!
🍂 Let 606 Land & Snow handle your fall cleanup.
Choosing
606 Land & Snow means choosing a team that treats your property like their own—carefully, professionally, and with long-term results in mind.
Get your estimate today at 606 Land & Snow
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Where are the robot mowers? They're coming.
Roomba’s have been around for 30 years. Where are the robot lawnmowers? The truth is they have been far more popular for 15+ years across the pond in Europe and are quickly gaining popularity in the states.
Here in the U.S. robot mowers have been targeted to be set up for large properties in middle america but they are moving to the city quickly (especially Chicago). This is largely due to the fact that the technology has advanced to the point that it is simple to install now and it is easy for a homeowner to run these apps themselves.
That said, these devices are not the silver bullet for yard maintenance. They take care of the mowing, but there is still a need for weekly maintenance like trimming, weed pulling, edging, etc. Ironically, while this seems like a no-brainer for landscapers and home-owners alike it is a paradigm shift because the
lawn will be cut daily rather than weekly. Most robot lawn mowers on the market are intended to mow the lawn everyday which results in a healthier fresh-cut look– everyday. Because of the frequency of mowing the clippings are far less so they are not trotted into your house and the ultra-fine clippings are a great natural fertilizer.
Let’s talk about working with the grass rather than against it. For one, robot mowers are electric which is better for the environment in general and you don’t have to worry about the brown spot on your grass from spilled gasoline. Another overlooked part of daily mowing is that you are encouraging internal lawn growth. It’s the same concept as cutting plant suckers in your vegetable garden. You want to encourage slower growing grass and cutback fast growing grass for a more uniform and green lawn.
These devices are a new fresh take on the way we maintain our lawns and it’s an exciting time for the industry.
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