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. Green sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Green
Soil here can change completely across one property. A kame rise carries gravelly, sharply drained till; the kettle beside it holds saturated organic muck that stays wet into June. We probe before designing, because a single drainage approach applied across both will fail on one of them. Where the hollow cannot be drained, we design for it — raised beds, species that tolerate periodic saturation, and hardscape sited on the better-drained ground.
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 Green Township properties need
Mowing acreage weekly is a genuine commitment, and it is the service most rural clients start with before adding cleanups and snow. We price by the turf area actually being cut and the trim time around outbuildings, trees and fence lines rather than by total parcel size — a wooded five acres can mow smaller than an open one.
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 Green
Snow relocation becomes a real line item by midwinter here. Piles that were fine in December start consuming parking spaces and blocking sight lines in February, and the agreement should say what happens then and how it is billed.
Material choice shifts with the thermometer. Standard rock salt loses effectiveness around 15°F, and below that treated salt or a calcium or magnesium chloride blend is what actually melts anything. Applying more rock salt in those conditions wastes product and damages concrete.
What Green Township properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Wayne 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.
- Lawn Mowing & Property MaintenanceWeekly mowing, trimming and edging on a schedule you can set your watch by — residential and commercial.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
- Mulching & Landscape Bed MaintenanceCrisp cut edges, correct mulch depth, and beds that stay clean instead of needing a rescue every July.
- Landscape LightingLow-voltage LED lighting that makes the yard usable after 5pm — which in Ohio is half the year.
Why Green property owners choose us
We know Wayne County ground
Wayne County sits in the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, where productive silt loam on the flats and gravelly till on the ridges, generally the best-draining soil in the region. 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 Wayne 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
Green sits in Wayne County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
