Flat does not mean easy. With almost no natural fall, a quarter-inch-per-foot pitch is the difference between a swale that works and a trench that holds water, and it is not something anyone can judge by eye. Everything gets shot with a laser level before we price it.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Montgomery is inside our core service area.
Soil and drainage in Montgomery
Planting into this clay by digging a hole and backfilling with good soil creates a bathtub: water flows in from the surrounding clay and cannot drain out, and the plant slowly drowns across two seasons. We amend a broad bed area instead — compost worked into the top ten to twelve inches — and raise the bed grade a few inches so roots sit above the seasonally saturated zone. It reads as a small detail. It is the difference between a bed that establishes and one that is replaced in year three.
Turf on this clay is a compaction problem before it is a nutrition problem. Annual core aeration with overseeding into the open holes and a light compost topdressing changes how a lawn handles a dry July within two seasons, which no bag of fertilizer will do.
What Montgomery Township properties need
A working windbreak is worth more on an exposed township property than any ornamental planting. That means staggered rows of Norway spruce or white pine spaced for mature size, sited on the west and north — not a tight single row of arborvitae, which browns on the windward side and is the first thing deer strip in a hard winter.
Every proposal we send states the specification rather than implying it — excavation depth, base material and thickness for hardscape, pipe size and outlet for drainage, and a plant schedule with species, install size and mature dimensions. If a competing bid states none of those and comes in lower, that difference is usually the reason.
Winter in Montgomery
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.
Documentation is worth more than most people expect on any property the public walks across. Time-stamped records of what was cleared, when, and what material went down at what rate are exactly what an insurer asks for, and they cannot be reconstructed after a claim.
What Montgomery Township properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Wood County demand rather than by what is easiest to sell.
- Drainage Solutions & Yard GradingFrench drains, swales and regrading that move water away from your foundation before it costs you a basement.
- Sod Installation, Seeding & Lawn RenovationNew lawns, thin lawns and construction scars — graded, amended and established properly the first time.
- Lawn Mowing & Property MaintenanceWeekly mowing, trimming and edging on a schedule you can set your watch by — residential and commercial.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
- Mulching & Landscape Bed MaintenanceCrisp cut edges, correct mulch depth, and beds that stay clean instead of needing a rescue every July.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
Why Montgomery property owners choose us
This is our home ground
Montgomery sits inside the counties we work every week from Hicksville. That shows up most in winter, when distance decides whose driveway gets cleared first.
We fix the water before anything else
Every dollar spent on plants or hardscape sitting on ground that stays wet gets spent twice. On Wood 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
Montgomery sits in Wood County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
