In order to keep things healthy we should mulch your Manhattan landscape or penthouse garden planters this season.

Mulch helps your garden or landscape's trees, shrubs and perennials by keeping plantings moist at the root ball and evergreens pliable during the winter. Evergreens require moisture all year, not only in warm months and can dry out then die in Spring. Rooftop and terrace gardens or trees, shrubs and perennials in planters require heavily applied mulch in most instances to help ensure survival through Winter while the winterized irrigation systems are shut down.

A Fall service includes more time and materials than a regular monthly service as well as the irrigation shutdown/Winterize. Many property owners have separate irrigation company and landscaper or garden company. New York Plantings Irrigation and Landscape Lighting is working alongside NY Plantings Garden Designers until growth allows for independent operations.

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A proper Fall service is critical to your rooftop garden or NYC terrace garden.

All landscapes require proper maintenance. Blowers and mowers don't cut it. By blowing out all leaves and natural occurring mulch, then leaving nothing but bare soil under your trees and shrubs you are doing more harm than good. Think of the natural environment that trees live in when undisturbed by human activity.

In the forest for example, years of leaves and debris, dead animals, insects and other natural, organic elements layer to block out weeds, retain high level of moisture, decay and decompose to create natural nutrients that cannot be duplicated by chemical companies, the soil remains soft and water readily seeps in.

You don't see the need for an irrigation system. That is in large part due to the natural mulch created by the trees themselves.

OK, so you want your front yard to look neat so then a team of amigos run through weekly with blowers to remove anything and everything from your lawn and garden beds.

So, many of us have mulch to make the landscape look neater, but many of us still do not. There is of course proper use of mulch and application as well. Even the type of mulch we use can affect your landscape or garden's health.

In short: Mulching helps to recreate that natural environment created by the trees themselves when woodlands go unmolested. For many of us, that alone is enough reason to be mulching their landscape plantings and gardens.

Nearly 80% of NYC so called "gardeners" and "NYC Landscapers" do not use mulch when planting, even when installing roof gardens or terrace plantings. Unbelievable really.

New York Plantings Irrigation and Landscape Lighting

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