There is a simple truth to successful landscaping that every landscaper should be aware of. That truth has nothing to do with how you position features within the design. Nor does it even relate to how much or how little you spend on the project.

We will not keep you in suspense any longer and reveal to you that the success of any landscaping project is highly reliant upon the health of the soil underneath. Hopefully, you have not rolled your eyes, nor sighed, nor, we hope, are you planning to click away thinking that soil has nothing to do with any landscaping design you are planning because the fact is it does.

If the soil in which you are going to be planting bushes, shrubs, trees or even a new lawn is not up to standard then you are heading for some difficulties and disappointments. That soil may have insufficient nutrients to sustain anything you plant in it, its consistency might be unsuitable for landscaping, it could have poor drainage, and in the worst-case scenario, it may even contain toxins, which are dangerous to plants, animals, and most worryingly, humans. The easiest solution for helping grass grow is to have the area go through the vertimowing process.

Rather than dwell on the worst of what could happen if your soil is unhealthy, we prefer to highlight some ways in which you can ensure that the health of your soil is sufficient for you to plan, implement and enjoy your landscaping design. With that being the case, here are 5 tips concerning soil health that every landscaper should be able to follow without too much difficulty.

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For any landscape design or garden, the health of the grass, flowers, bushes, and shrubs within them rely on many things, but perhaps more than anything, it is the soil they are planted in. Regardless of how large or small any landscaping project you are undertaking is, one thing they have in common in order to exist is to be located on soil that is healthy and can provide plants living in it with nutrients.

Property maintenance and landscaping experts told us having healthy soil is something that some landscape designers and gardeners overlook as they become preoccupied with deciding what features to include and what the layout is going to be. Whilst each of them, and the many other elements of a landscaping project are important, they are but nothing if the soil underneath is lifeless and worse, toxic.

One point to note is that healthy soil is about more than just what all the plants are going to be rooted in, important though it may be. In addition, soil has other important roles which include, drainage, the prevention of erosion, and they are also the base that support features within a landscape design such as walls, pathways, and decking.

As you can see the success of any landscape design is very much reliant on the soil, so the next step is to discover how exactly we can ensure that the soil underneath is the healthy soil that we need and stays that way. Here are 5 ways that can be achieved.

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Only you will know how much local competition your garden maintenance business has, but even if there is only one other company in your area, you will still have potential customers of yours signing up with that competitor. If the competition is fierce, then you must do all you can to have an edge over those other garden maintenance companies, and according to an expert SEO company, the best way to achieve this is ranking high on Google.

With your website coming out on top whenever a potential customer searches for solutions relating to garden maintenance, if you have effective SEO in place then it is your website those searching will see, and not those of your competitors. Now, that might sound like an ideal scenario, but is not one that you can achieve in one day, one week, and even getting to the top of Google within a month takes some doing.

SEO, and trying to rank the pages of your website for a range of appropriate keywords, is a long-term project that takes a lot of planning, plenty of effort, and a strategic approach to every element of that project. This is why the vast majority of business owners employ others to do it all for them so that they can focus on running their business.

When we say ‘others’, there are options as to who you entrust with the management of your SEO campaign, but if you want it done professionally and wish to see sustainable results with regards to your rankings on Google, then an SEO agency is the only real solution. Here are some of the reasons why that is the case.

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Maintaining a healthy work environment often means taking action in several ways. One would be to hire a professional cleaning company to ensure that you and your staff operate so that cleanliness and health are part of your daily routine.

In addition, and with recent events still a significant focus around the world, many of us are learning to work in new ways, and part of that is driven by the increasing need for hygiene, not only for our well-being but for the well-being of our colleagues and customers.

Providing a healthy and hygienic environment for its staff and customers is essential in these uncertain times. It can be the difference between a business surviving or not.

Here are three simple but highly effective ways of helping your business stay healthy.

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