Spring is a time to clean up areas in your home and around your yard in your landscaping. With the weather warming up and the start of buds in your landscaping, it is a good idea to remove the dead debris and other clutter to get your yard into great shape. Here are some recommendations you can use this spring to get your yard and landscaping into an improved condition for an attractive property.

Trim Up Your Vegetation

After an entire year's worth of vegetation growth, the straight lines of your landscaping areas are going to look a bit shabby. The line between your lawn and your bedding areas is going to be overgrown with grass that has snuck into the soil and sprouted up in spots. If you don't keep regular management of this type of growth, your bedding areas are going to become infiltrated with patches of lawn before you realize it.

Take some time and use your shovel or a flat-edged shovel for the best results to trim up the edges of your lawn. Remove any patches of grass growth, digging them from below to pull up the entire root system. Grass is a hardy plant that will regrow if you don't get all the roots from the area. If you have edging material, such as concrete blocks, bricks, vinyl, or metal edging that has begun to shift or protrude from the soil, use your shovel to cut out the soil and reinstall the edging material in place.

Clear Out Debris

Another important part of your yard's appearance and condition is removing any dead and decaying debris. Unless you have a mulch compost pile set up in an area of your yard, there should be no dead leaves, broken twigs, or remnants of year's vegetation growth sitting on the soil. These debris piles only harbor insects and fungal growth that can leave your yard overrun with a damaging pest infestation or powdery mildew from them overwintering in your yard.

Bag up the leaves and organic debris into a trash bag that you can seal up and dispose of at your curbside waste pickup. If there is a compost program in your area or a community compost and mulch pickup from your waste management service, you can dispose of it in this way as well. Or, ask your neighbors to see if any of them want your donation for their compost bin. Once you clear out this yard waste, your landscaping will look better and sharper, and your new spring growth will have space to thrive.