Glaciated till gives you workable soil and moderate relief — genuinely good ground to build a landscape on, provided the construction compaction is relieved before anything is planted into it.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Lockbourne sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Lockbourne
The most common turf problem on till ground is construction compaction rather than soil type. New neighbourhoods routinely end up with two inches of topsoil spread over subsoil that heavy equipment drove on for a year. Grass germinates in that two inches, roots hit the compacted layer, and the lawn needs constant water and never thickens. The fix is mechanical — decompaction, organic matter incorporated, and overseeding with a deeper-rooting turf-type tall fescue blend.
Where a property was recently farmland, the plough pan is worth knowing about — a compacted layer left at old tillage depth that roots struggle to cross. Breaking it before establishing turf saves years of a lawn that never quite thickens.
What Lockbourne properties need most
On a village lot the four things that change how a property reads from the road are a defined spade-cut bed edge, mulch at two to three inches rather than the five or six that accumulates when it is added annually and never removed, shrubs hand-pruned to a scale that suits the house instead of sheared into shells, and clean edging along the walks and drive. Together they cost less than a single mature tree.
We are happy to bid against an incumbent. Send the existing specification and we will price it line for line so the comparison is genuinely like for like — and if something in it is unnecessary, or missing, we will say so rather than quietly matching it.
Winter in Lockbourne
A typical winter here produces more ice events than deep snow, which changes what matters in an agreement: material selection by pavement temperature, calibrated application rates, and pre-treatment ahead of forecast freezes rather than reaction afterward.
The most valuable winter preparation happens in November — leaves off the turf so it does not mat under snow and grow snow mold, evergreens watered deeply before the ground freezes, drive and walk edges staked, and drainage outlets cleared so meltwater has somewhere to go.
What Lockbourne properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Franklin County demand rather than by what is easiest to sell.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
- Sod Installation, Seeding & Lawn RenovationNew lawns, thin lawns and construction scars — graded, amended and established properly the first time.
- Tree & Shrub TrimmingPruned at the right time of year, to the right cut — so plants stay in scale instead of getting sheared into boxes.
- Mulching & Landscape Bed MaintenanceCrisp cut edges, correct mulch depth, and beds that stay clean instead of needing a rescue every July.
- Lawn Fertilization & Weed ControlA season-long program built on what your soil actually tests at — not a generic five-step calendar.
- Spring & Fall CleanupsThe two visits a year that decide how the rest of the season goes — debris out, beds reset, leaves gone.
Why Lockbourne property owners choose us
We know Franklin County ground
Franklin County sits in the Central Lowland till plains, where clay loam over till, heavily compacted across the suburban ring where construction stripped the topsoil. 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 Franklin 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
Lockbourne sits in Franklin County (and extends into Pickaway County). We cover these neighbouring communities too:
