The pattern we see over and over here is a landscape installed on top of an unsolved water problem. It looks right for two seasons, then the beds sour, the mulch floats and the turf thins in exactly the same places every spring.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Washington is inside our core service area.
Soil and drainage in Washington
Two things stack up here. The soil is dense lacustrine clay with very low infiltration, and the terrain is flat enough that surface water has nowhere to run. That combination means water sits until it evaporates or finds tile. On this ground a dry well is a hole that fills and stays full — the reliable answer is carrying water to a real outlet with solid pipe from every downspout, positive grade re-established within ten feet of the foundation, and shallow swales pitched to a road ditch. Everything gets shot with a laser level, because a quarter-inch of fall per foot is not something anyone can judge by eye.
Where there is genuinely nowhere to send water, the answer is storage and slow release rather than a pipe to nowhere — a properly sized rain garden with amended soil, an overflow path, and plants that tolerate both saturation and drought. Built correctly it handles roof and drive runoff; built as a shallow scrape it is just a wet spot.
What Washington 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.
We would rather talk a homeowner out of a project than sell one that will not hold. Where drainage has to be solved first, we say so, and where the honest answer is two downspouts and eighty dollars of pipe rather than a full system, we say that too.
Winter in Washington
The winter work that protects a landscape is mostly done in November: leaves off the turf so it does not mat under snow and grow snow mold, evergreens watered deeply before the ground freezes so they have a reserve to draw on, drive and walk edges staked, and drainage outlets cleared so meltwater has somewhere to go in February.
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 Washington Township properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Van Wert 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.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
- Commercial Landscaping & Grounds MaintenanceOne contractor for grounds and snow, with documented service and a contact who answers the phone.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
Why Washington property owners choose us
This is our home ground
Washington 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 Van Wert 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
Washington sits in Van Wert County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
