Plateau soils hold water and sit over shale, so cut slopes need holding and hardscape needs drainage detailed for saturated conditions rather than average ones.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Sharon sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Sharon
Slopes are the defining feature and the opportunity. Ground steeper than roughly three-to-one is dangerous with a walk-behind and impossible with a rider, and terracing converts it into level, plantable, usable space. Every wall we build gets drain tile at the base with a positive outlet, a minimum twelve-inch zone of clean angular stone behind the block wrapped in geotextile, and geogrid into compacted fill on anything with real height. Walls that lean forward in this county were backfilled with soil rather than stone.
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 Sharon Township properties need
Deer pressure on properties backing to woods decides the plant list before anything else does. Arborvitae and yew are the two most commonly planted shrubs in Ohio and the two deer strip first. Spruce, juniper, boxwood, ornamental grasses, catmint and Russian sage hold up.
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 Sharon
Lake-effect events are heavy, wet and repetitive, which is hard on both pavement and plantings. Over-application of salt damages concrete, kills the turf edge along drives and runs into storm drains, so calibrated rates and pre-treatment ahead of forecast events do more good than volume. Pre-treating prevents ice bonding, which makes clearing faster and uses substantially less material overall.
Most of what protects a landscape through a hard winter is done in November — leaves cleared so turf does not mat, evergreens watered deeply before the ground freezes, and drainage outlets cleared so February meltwater has somewhere to go.
What Sharon Township properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Medina 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.
- 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.
- Sod Installation, Seeding & Lawn RenovationNew lawns, thin lawns and construction scars — graded, amended and established properly the first time.
Why Sharon property owners choose us
We know Medina County ground
Medina County sits in the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, where clay loam over till that drains adequately on slopes and poorly in the flats. 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 Medina 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
Sharon sits in Medina County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
