Cape Cod Home Services Inc. will be attending the Lower Cape Home and Garden Expo this Saturday at the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School.
It is free admission and ample parking. There will be lectures and demonstrations.
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We will be at the 3rd Annual Lower Cape Expo!!!
April 5th, 2011It’s That Time of Year Again…
March 15th, 2011Spring is just around the corner. Have you though about your landscape spring clean up?
The preparation that you do now will pave the way for a healthy lawn and lanscape through the fall.
For anyone interested, there is a Bay friendly landscaping and lawn care event being held on March 25th at the Captains Golf Course located at 1000 Freemans Way in Brewster.
This event is free and will be held from 9:00am-12:30pm.
There will be featured speakers and professional credits are offered for attending from the following organizations: 1.0 MA Pesticide Core, 1.0 MA Turf License Credit, 0.5 MA Arborist Association Credit, and 1.0 MA Association of Landscape Contractors.
For more information on this event:
Chatham Conservation Division (508) 945-5164 or Carole Ridley at CR@ridleyandassociates.com
If you are in need of any landscaping services, patio/lawn make-overs please give us a call.
508-945-2002
or visit our website: www.capecodhomeservicesinc.com
It’s Spring Cleanup Time!
March 18th, 2010Spring is finally here. Many love this time of year. There is nothing like the feeling of giving the house a deep cleaning and having the windows open to air it out.
Now is the time to also think out spring cleaning your landscape. The preparation done now ensures a healthy lawn and landscape throught the summer and into fall.
Let us perform your spring clean up landscape needs.
Contact us at 508-945-2002
and vist our website at www.cchsinc.com
Upcomming Events
February 9th, 2010If you are looking for items or ideas to impove your home this year, don’t Miss the New England Home Show.
February 25-28
The New England Home show has over 300 exibitors on hand to lend expert advise on anything from renovations to accessories.
This event is a home owners one stop shop for anything for your home.
You can check out information for The New England Home show at their website: http://www.newenglandhomeshows.com/
Haiti Releif Fund
February 2nd, 2010In an effort to help with the terrible disaster that devastated Haiti on January 12th, Cape Cod Home Services Inc. and our sister company Gable Building Corp. are collecting money at our office for Hope for Haiti. 100% of all donations will go directly to a disaster relief team currently on the ground.
Gable will match all donations up to $1,000!
Please donate what you can, every little bit helps. Make checks out directly to Hope for Haiti and drop off at the office.
HELP spread the word to others!
For more information about Hope For Haiti check out their website http://www.hopeforhaiti.com
For more information about the charity or any questions please contact April at Gable Building - 1291 Main Street, Chatham, MA 508-945-4002
or email: april@gablebuilding.com
Snow Removal
December 22nd, 2009This was a blast of a storm we just had this past weekend. Alot of people are still buried in snow. If you happen to be one of them and need your driveway plowed or walks shovelled, don’t hesitate to contact us.
We are here to get you out.
Visit our website at: www.hsinc
or call 508-945-2002
Lighting Your Landscape for the Holidays
December 9th, 2009With the advancement in solar lighting technology, solar Christmas lights are a dependable and environmentally safe lighting option for your holiday design needs. It will also save you some money on your electric bill. The LED light bulb is efficient and bright, the solar panels convert more sunlight into usable energy, and batteries have increased energy capacity. This allows solar Christmas lights to burn bright, long, and inexpensively.
Solar Christmas lights are traditionally hung on your house, but you can hang your lights on your trees or around your bushes as well. The sun will charge them during the day, and you will have cool landscape lighting designs on your landscape at night. In order to do it on multiple trees, you’ll need about 60 lights per tree.
They are available in a variety of styles and bulb styles. You can choose traditional string lights, stake lights, reindeer, and Santa Claus or pretty much any holiday season theme. And the best thing is that you can use them after the holiday season if you pick a multi-purpose style.
Visit our website at: www.cchsinc.com
These are not LED lights, but the picture is so funny I have to post it:
Winter Care for your lawn
November 23rd, 2009The appearance of your lawn in the spring also depends on how you tend to it during the winter, so consider these tips when planning for the winter season:
Before winter arrives, make sure that your lawn is completely free of debris, rocks, logs, or dead leaves. Leaving these things on your lawn can leave your grass smothered.
While your grass is growing more slowly in the winter, weeds tend to grow faster. Watch out for any weed growth on your lawn and remove them before they do more damage. Leaving weeds to grow in the winter can kill the grass on your lawn by springtime.
If you want your lawn to look greener in the winter, you can use grasses that grow well in colder temperatures. Rye grass is a good example, especially since it doesn’t replace the grass that is already on your lawn. As soon as your lawn grass starts growing in the spring, the rye grass will simply die out. These winter grasses are best planted during October.
Don’t forget to water your lawn during the winter - especially if you experience 2 or more weeks without rain. Tall fescue, rye grass, and Kentucky bluegrass all grow best during the winter, and this is the perfect time to water and fertilize them. One to two inches of water each week should be fine.
For winter fertilization, a slow-release nitrogen fertilizer should be applied mid November for Bermuda, bahia, and centipede grasses. St. Augustine grasses shouldn’t be given a late fall feeding. Water your lawn lightly after the fertilizer application to encourage the fertilizer to activate.
By following a winter lawn maintenance routine, your lawn is sure to be greener and healthier when spring arrives.
For your landscaping needs contact us by:
visit our website at: www.cchsinc
or call: 508-945-2002
Landscaping Winter Preparation
November 17th, 2009It is pretty easy to google and find tips for your fall landscaping chores to tell you what you should be doing to prepare for winter, but not many resources to tell you what not to do.
Did you know that you should not:
*Apply nitrogen fertilizer to plants. Adding it now could cause plants to put on new growth that would be susceptible to damage from a frost or freeze.
*Prune anything except dead or damaged branches. Pruning could stimulate growth. Prune in late winter or early spring before new growth starts.
*Cut your lawn too closely. Leave grass about 21/2 inches tall to protect its roots.
You Can:
*Fertilize fescue lawns. Apply a complete fertilizer that contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Nitrogen is required for fescue lawns in large amounts. Nitrogen is mobile in the soil and is the nutrient most likely to be deficient in fescue lawns. Fescue lawns deficient in nitrogen appear yellow to light green and grow slowly.
Both mature fescue plants and seedlings need phosphorus. Plants deficient in phosphorus may have red to red-purple leaves and grow slowly. Plants deficient in potassium don’t tolerate stress and are often disease-prone.
*Remove all dead vegetable plants from the garden. Diseases or insect-infested plant materials should never be tilled or left in compost.
For your landscaping needs:
Visit our website at: www.cchsinc.com
Go Green with your Fall Cleanup
October 20th, 2009It’s that time of year to start the Fall Cleanup on your lawn. Why not try composting instead of bagging the leaves and taking them to the dump.?
Composting is the process of using nature’s own recycling system to turn organic wastes into rich humus to use in the garden as a fabulous soil conditioner. Up to 30% of the garbage we throw out each week can go in the compost pile, including vegetable and fruit peelings, grass clippings, hair, manure, eggshells, tea leaves, branches and twigs, coffee filters, and leaves.
Composting techniques range from super-easy set-it-and-forget-it piles of old grass clippings and leaves that take a few seasons to decompose, or “hot” piles that require some experimentation and finesse in turning, ingredient ratios of “brown” to “green”, but that turn your soup-makings and autumn leaves into brown gold in a just a couple of months.
The benefits of composting are many. It recycles stuff we’d otherwise be cramming down the garbage disposal or letting the municipal leaf-guys haul away, it makes great soil enrichment for home gardeners, it improves the structure of your soil, it lets you use less water on your plants, and it just feels good knowing that your small effort is giving back to the earth a little.