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      • Curb-Appeal Audits
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      • Premium Ground Cover from Lucerne Farms
      • Rain Barrels
      • Cedar Raised Beds
      • Greenhouses
  • Portfolio
    • Landscaping a New Home
    • 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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Leaf Shredding Service

Pumpkin Brook Organic Gardening UpdatesBy Bernadette GiblinOctober 29, 2020

Reese has serviced our leaf shredder to make this annual chore go faster and to produce a small, evenly sized product. Shredded leaves are perfect for mulching garden beds that are planted closely, especially woodland gardens. Please contact Kimberly for an estimate, <kimberly@pumpkinbrookorganicgardening.com> as we’ll be rolling this service out soon!

PHC News – Ticks, Tea and Tender Plant Protection

Plants, Pumpkin Brook Organic Gardening UpdatesBy Bernadette GiblinOctober 27, 2020

Please be extra careful and check yourself, children and pets after walking or playing outdoors this month! Leaves are dropping early and coating the ground. Ticks prefer to hide in this type of moist, enclosed environment. Our tick and mosquito spray program using essential oils can help, so now is the time to sign up…

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…

Tick and Mosquito Update

Pets, Pumpkin Brook Organic Gardening UpdatesBy Bernadette GiblinOctober 2, 2019

Everyone is on the alert for the deadly EEE virus (Eastern Equine Encephalitis), transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito and reported in some of our service area. Here is information on aerial spraying with pesticides, already performed at night in some of our communities:  Read Mass Gov File Those who have been…

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