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      • Invasives Removal
      • Dividing and Transplanting
      • Weeding
      • Deadheading and Staking
      • Edging and Mulching
      • Leaf Shredding
      • Brush Chipping
      • Compost Bin Building & Tending
      • Preserving Mature Landscape Plantings
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      • Landscape Planting
      • Hardscape Installation
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      • Garden Coaching
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      • Curb-Appeal Audits
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      • Premium Ground Cover from Lucerne Farms
      • Rain Barrels
      • Cedar Raised Beds
      • Greenhouses
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    • Improving a Retaining Wall
    • Creating Green Screens
    • Building a Fire Pit
  • About Us
    • We’re Hiring
    • Priscilla Hutt Williams, President and Founder
    • Reese Crotteau, Plant Health Care Manager
    • Kimberly Kuliesis, Operations Manager
    • Deanna Jayne, Designer
    • Rick Burnett, Field Manager
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Tick Reminder

Pets, Pumpkin Brook Organic Gardening UpdatesBy Bernadette GiblinMarch 23, 2020

As always, after any time outdoors, check yourself, your children and your pets for ticks! These pests are active in the landscape whenever temperatures are above 32 degrees, especially at edges of woods and cultivated areas where leaves, sticks and debris tends to collect. We recommend a personal essential oil spray of cedar for a…

Use of Safe Ice Melt Products Encouraged

PetsBy Bernadette GiblinDecember 28, 2016

Going along with our organic land care philosophy, we recommend use of an ice melt that does not contain Sodium chloride. This material can cause mortar used in walkways to degrade over time and provides toxic levels of salt to the plants in adjacent garden beds. Furthermore, those of us with dogs and cats need…

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