Home Maintenance Schedule, Home Repair Handyman
Home Maintenance Schedule:
Year Round Landscaping Care
Landscaping is perhaps one of the easiest chores to insert into your home maintenance schedule because the changing seasons are a great reminder to keep us on track and prompt us to take care of things. When the grass is growing in the summer it’s pretty hard to ignore! Performing regular maintenance on your landscaping is also one of the very best ways to keep up your property value and add to the visual appeal of your home. Not only that but if the landscaping always looks nice your neighbors will appreciate it!
Here is a recommended schedule for home landscaping maintenance. As you perform each task, think about other ways to incorporate your home maintenance chores into the same schedule. For example, as you examine your sprinklers take advantage of the fact that you are outside in the yard to examine your fence as well. Keep a hammer and nails handy and fix any loose boards while you are there. Take the opportunity to walk around the periphery of your home and examine the foundation, the driveway, and other structural components that are visible to the naked eye. This will make the most of you time, and help you spot any needed repair work.
Spring Schedule
As the weather enters the milder spring season is one of the best times to be outdoors.
- Perform spring lawn aeration
- Fertilize for Dandelion and Crabgrass Control
- Plant annuals when danger of frost is past
- Remove any remaining dead leaves from lawns and flower beds
- Fertilize spring and summer bulbs before they bloom
- Turn on the water sprinklers when danger of freezing is past, and tune sprinkler heads for best coverage and efficiency
- Service the lawnmower
- Perform spring pruning (such as many shrubs)
- Plant summer bulbs in early spring
Summer Schedule
- Mow the lawn once a week
- Fertilize with a good quality turf builder every other month during growing season
- Weed the flower beds every other week, and take time to enjoy the summer blooms
- Perform summer pruning (such as some fruit trees and roses)
Fall Schedule
- Apply winterizing fertilizer
- Drain water sprinkler systems when temperatures drop
- Drain and remove hoses from exterior faucets
- Perform fall lawn aeration
- Rake fall leaves
- Plant spring bulbs
Winter Schedule
- Perform winter pruning (some evergreens)
- Sharpen tools such as pruning shears
- Rake any remaining leaves
- Shovel the snow
Adhering to a home maintenance schedule makes it easy to look after your landscaping. It only takes a few minutes to copy the above schedule onto a calendar that you keep in the kitchen and then you can simply check things off as you get them done. It also makes it easier to shop for products, like fertilizer. There are so many types of fertilizer on the market, if you know you are looking for a product in the spring that controls dandelions and crabgrass, your decision of which product to buy, and when to buy it, becomes a lot easier.