Because the ground has some fall to it, the mistakes are subtler than they are on the lake plain — water does leave, just slowly and often toward the house rather than away from it. Grade at the foundation is the first thing we check.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Union sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Union
Because the ground here has fall, most drainage problems are concentration rather than volume — a downspout, a driveway or a neighbouring roof delivering flow into one path it has carved for itself. Spreading that flow out with a shaped swale usually solves more than a pipe does.
Beds here amend well because the base material is workable to begin with. Compost worked into the top ten to twelve inches across the whole bed, a defined spade edge and two to three inches of hardwood mulch gets most properties most of the way there.
What Union Township properties need
Rural parcels have room, and room means machine access — which makes drainage runs, bed renovations and patios meaningfully cheaper here than the same work behind a fence in town. The trade-off is exposure. Open ground means new trees need real staking their first season or they rock in place and never root out, and evergreens on the west and north sides lose moisture through winter that frozen soil cannot replace.
The order that gets the most from a budget is almost always the same: drainage and grading first because everything else sits on top of them, then hardscape with sleeves and conduit run for anything you might add later, then structural planting, then beds and mulch, then lighting.
Winter in Union
Winter here is genuinely heavier than the state average, with elevation adding to totals. A snow agreement should state the trigger depth, what surfaces are included, and the response window. Walks, entries, stairs and ramps deserve their own line item rather than being assumed — most winter liability attaches to pedestrian surfaces, not to the parking lot.
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 Union Township properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Logan 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.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
- Drainage Solutions & Yard GradingFrench drains, swales and regrading that move water away from your foundation before it costs you a basement.
- Mulching & Landscape Bed MaintenanceCrisp cut edges, correct mulch depth, and beds that stay clean instead of needing a rescue every July.
- Spring & Fall CleanupsThe two visits a year that decide how the rest of the season goes — debris out, beds reset, leaves gone.
Why Union property owners choose us
We know Logan County ground
Logan County sits in the Central Lowland till plains, where gravelly till that drains far better than the lake plain, though the slopes erode when left bare. 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 Logan 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
Union sits in Logan County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
