Foley's Stump Removal

03/03/2025

Spring is the perfect time to tackle tree stump removal! 🌳✨ Here’s why you should consider having your tree stumps ground out by a professional this season:

1. **Healthier Landscape**: Grinding out stumps prevents pests and diseases from spreading to healthy plants in your yard. A clean landscape promotes growth!

2. **Aesthetics**: Unsightly stumps can detract from your yard's beauty. Professional grinding restores the natural look of your outdoor space.

3. **Safety First**: Tree stumps can be a tripping hazard, especially for kids and pets. Removing them ensures a safer environment for everyone.

4. **Easier Maintenance**: With stumps gone, mowing and landscaping become much easier. Say goodbye to those awkward spots where you can’t mow!

5. **Prevent Regrowth**: Professional stump grinding removes the root system, preventing any unwanted regrowth that can occur with simple cutting.

Don’t let stumps ruin your spring gardening plans! Contact a professional today and enjoy a cleaner, safer yard this season! 🌼🌿

03/12/2024

01/16/2023

Sometimes this is all it takes to help our pollinators.

12/10/2022

Interesting information

Did you know that if holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow? So on taller holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly. Cool info and photo from u/dirtybird971 on Reddit.

11/02/2022

25 Gardening Tips Every Gardener Should Know ( #11 especially right now!)
1. Know your USDA Hardiness Zone
2. Not sure when to prune?
3. Apply only composted, rotted manure that has cured for at least six months to your soil.
4. Perennials generally need three years to achieve their mature size after you plant them.
5. Learn how long your growing season is (the time between your last frost in spring and first frost in fall), so you can start some plants inside or avoid growing them.
6. Deadheading is a good practice for perennials and annuals.
7. Pay close attention to how much light different plants need.
8. The best approaches to controlling weeds in the garden are hand-weeding and hoeing.
9. Hostas don't need to be divided unless you want to rejuvenate an old plant or increase the numbers you have or simply prefer the look of single plants.
10. Not all hydrangeas grow in the shade.
11. Don't clean up everything in your garden in the fall.
12. Vegetable gardening tip: The optimal temperature for ripening tomatoes is between 68-77°F.
13. Plant spring-blooming bulbs, such as tulips, fritillarias, ornamental alliums, and crocuses, in the fall before the ground freezes.
14. Deadhead spent flowers on spring-blooming bulbs such as daffodils and hyacinths, so the plants send energy to the bulbs instead of making seeds.
15. Fertilizer is not the answer to growing the best plants; soil quality is.
16. Late summer or early autumn is the best time to divide and transplant spring-blooming perennials.
17. If your rhubarb sends up flower stalks, remove them so the plant will focus on foliage production, not seed production.
18. When transplanting container-grown perennials, dig a hole that's twice as wide as the soil ball of the plant to aid with root establishment.
19. Mound your potato plants deep under the soil and store harvested potatoes in complete darkness.
20. Most in-ground garden plants grow best with 1 to 2 inches of water per week.

Are you wanting to start digging and growing, but don't know where to begin? Then, check out this list of helpful hints for making sure all your plants thrive.

10/20/2022

Four legged tree in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
One hundred years ago (1915), John Henning planted 4 linden tree saplings—2 on either side of the walk—leading up to his front door. Mr. Henning, a farmer who had immigrated from Germany as a young man, had moved into town when he retired. With lots of expereince grafting apple trees, he aimed to imitate the archways of lindens he recalled from Berlin. First, the two on the same side of the walk were lashed together and grafted. Then when each pair was tall enough to arch over the walk, he grafted the pairs. Over time, a towering trunk grew from the original four.

The four-legged tree of Cedar Falls has weathered two major setbacks in its long life. Not too many years after Mr. Henning started his project, the front right tree died and a replacement was grafted in. Thus the lesser girth of that trunk.

Source: Marcia Milner-Brage/Urban Sketchers

10/06/2022

10 Ways to Prepare Your Garden for Winter

1. Clean up diseased plants. Leave the rest in place.
2. Remove invasive weeds that may have taken hold over the growing season.
3. Amend your soil for spring.
4. Plant cover crops.
5. Prune perennials with care.
6. Divide and plant bulbs.
7. Harvest and regenerate your compost.
8. Replenish mulch.
9. Review the plants in your garden and assess your growing season.
10. Clean and sharpen tools.

Thinking ahead - Wherever you live, there are always steps you can take to prepare for next year’s gardening season. Taken now, these steps will not only help your spring and summer run more smoothly, but they can also improve your yields over the long term.

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