Two properties on the same street can need opposite work depending on whether they sit on the rise or in the hollow. We walk and probe before designing rather than assuming the neighbour's solution transfers.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Geneva sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Geneva
Retaining structures here do real structural work, and the drainage behind them is not optional. Drain tile at the base with an outlet to daylight, twelve inches of clean angular stone against the block, geotextile keeping soil out of that stone, and geogrid into compacted fill on anything with height. Walls that lean in this county were backfilled with soil.
Terracing is usually the better answer than one tall wall. Two shorter tiers can avoid the engineering threshold, look better, and turn the ground between them into a genuinely useful planting bed — provided they are spaced far enough apart that the upper wall is not loading the lower one.
What Geneva properties need most
A blank-slate property is an opportunity most people waste by planting before planning. Draw the whole thing first — grade, bed lines, hardscape footprints, plant placement at mature size — then build it in whatever order the budget allows. Phasing without a plan is how a patio ends up in the wrong place.
Phasing does not save money in total — mobilising a crew three times costs more than once — but it spreads the spend across seasons, which for most households is the difference between doing the work properly and doing a compromised version now. The plan does not change, only the calendar does.
Winter in Geneva
Ice is the other half of the job. Repeated freeze-thaw across a long winter produces more liability than any single snowfall, so pre-treatment ahead of forecast events and material selected for actual pavement temperature do more good than a bigger plow.
Pile placement is a design decision made at the fall site walk, not something to improvise in the dark. Snow stacked uphill of a drive melts back across it and refreezes with every thaw, and piles at a sight line become a hazard by February.
What Geneva properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Ashtabula County demand rather than by what is easiest to sell.
- Retaining Walls & TerracingEngineered walls with real drainage behind them — turning slopes you cannot mow into space you can use.
- Drainage Solutions & Yard GradingFrench drains, swales and regrading that move water away from your foundation before it costs you a basement.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
- Paver Patios & HardscapingPatios and walkways set on eight inches of compacted base — the reason ours are still flat after ten Ohio winters.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
- Tree & Shrub TrimmingPruned at the right time of year, to the right cut — so plants stay in scale instead of getting sheared into boxes.
Why Geneva property owners choose us
We know Ashtabula County ground
Ashtabula County sits in the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, where heavy, poorly drained clay across the uplands and sandy terraces near the shore. We plan around that rather than applying a template written for another part of the state.
We fix the water before anything else
Every dollar spent on plants or hardscape sitting on ground that stays wet gets spent twice. On Ashtabula County soil we diagnose drainage first — and often the honest answer is two downspouts rather than a system.
46 Google reviews, licensed and insured
Verbatim reviews from neighbours across the region, full coverage on every crew and machine, and financing available so a full plan can be built in one season.
One contractor for all four seasons
Landscaping April through November and snow and ice through the winter, from the same crews. The people who stake a drive in November are the people who mowed it in July.
Nearby places we also serve
Geneva sits in Ashtabula County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
