Category: Allentuck Landscaping Co.

5 Ways To Improve The Care Of Your Landscape

Caring For Your Landscape Just Got Easier If you are like most people, you work hard all week, shuffle the kids to all of their activities, cook, clean …. The weekend comes and all you really want to do is kick up your feet and enjoy some down time. The last thing you probably want to do is mow the lawn, pull the weeds, prune the shrubs…The alternative? Hire a

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Will Salt Damage My Landscape?

Will Salt Damage My Landscape? Let’s put it this way. In ancient times, salt was used by armies as a biological weapon to destroy enemy’s fields and crops. So the short answer is yes, salt will damage landscape plants. Salt is made from sodium chloride. It is very useful for melting snow and ice, and good as a seasoning on the dinner table. It can and does damage landscape plants

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Baby It’s Cold Out There

How Will The Cold Temperatures Affect My Landscape? With record breaking low temperatures (9 degrees this morning!), one would wonder if these conditions are bad for our landscape? Will these temperature harm or kill our plants? Plants Can Fend For Themselves Plants are well suited to deal with cold temperatures. Trees and shrubs go dormant. Perennials die back to the ground. However, there is some damage that can occur to

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Resolutions For our Garden

Resolutions For Our Garden As 2014 melts into 2015, I am overwhelmed by just how fortunate we are at Allentuck Landscaping Co. It has been a crazy year with so many good things (and a few bumps along the way).  I thought I would share a few garden (and life) resolutions with you. First a disclaimer: Although these are garden resolutions for our company, they are also somewhat my personal

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Seeing The Landscape In Winter

Winter may seem like the perfect time to take a vacation from your garden but, if used wisely, it can be an important time to lay down the ground work for making vast improvements. Just as plants are dormant and preparing to burst forth in the spring, so can us gardeners. A Time To Think About The Landscape During the warmer seasons we are busy with the day to day

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June Stuff To Do

June Stuff to Do Summer is here and the livin’ is easy. But that does not mean there are not chores to get done. Here is a list of Stuff To Do in June. Pinch out the flower buds of fall bloomers like asters and mums to keep the plants full and bushy, and to prevent early flowering. There will be periods of drought so keep those plants watered. Click

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Spring – Fourth Time’s A Charm

Spring – Fourth Time’s A Charm Maybe this time spring is for real? With the spring, snow, spring, snow pattern we have had this year, it has been hard for anyone to even contemplate their landscape or getting any outdoor project moving. We are confident that we have seen the last of snow (famous last words) and are now 100% in spring landscape mode! Which brings me to reminding you

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Composting 101

Want to be more green? Here is Compost 101. A simple guide to what can and cannot go into your compost pile.  

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Stuff To Do In March – Heads Are Gonna Roll Mother Nature

  March Stuff To Do As you are receiving this email , the Washington DC area is cleaning up from yet another snow storm. Heads are gonna roll Mother Nature. We are tired of this and we have gardening tasks to get done! Here are some things to put on your To Do List for March:     Early season weeds will start to grow (chickweed, henbit, knotweed). Pull them while they are

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The Greatest Gift

Turf Magazine – February, 2014 NORTH FEATURES The Greatest Gift Allentuck Landscaping nurtures a sense of community in Washington, D.C.By Mike Ingles Click image to enlarge. Allentuck Landscaping Company offers a complete palette of services. Photos courtesy of Bruce Allentuck. Bruce Allentuck, president of Allentuck Landscaping Company, Clarksburg, Md., says his company has a symbiotic relationship with Washington, D.C. “We are grateful to the community for the success of our business

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