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Spring Cleanup & Mulch Application Specialists
Winter is over. Let us clear out the beds, cut a clean edge, and lay fresh mulch so your property looks finished the week the neighborhood starts paying attention.
Residential & Commercial
Get Your Yard Spring Ready with PMT
PMT Lawn & Landscape handles spring cleanups and fresh mulch application for homes, HOAs, and commercial properties, serving Indianapolis and the surrounding areas. Spring books up fast, so the crews that get scheduled in March and early April are the ones with the shortest wait. Call (317) 910-1257 to hold a date before the calendar closes, or request an estimate.
A spring cleanup is the reset button on a property. Five months of wind has pushed leaves into every fence corner, the beds have collapsed under matted debris, the edges have blurred into the turf, and last season's mulch has faded to grey and thinned out to bare soil. None of that fixes itself. It just sits there until someone hauls it off and redefines the lines.
That is the work we do in a single visit. Beds cleared to clean soil, spent perennials cut back, shrubs shaped where they need it, turf debris cleaned out of the lawn so it can green up evenly, and every hard surface blown off before the trailer leaves. Then the mulch goes down on top of a bed that was actually prepared for it, which is the difference between mulch that looks sharp all season and mulch that looks like it was dumped over a mess.
What Is Included
Everything a Spring Cleanup Should Cover
Most cleanup quotes you get in spring are vague on purpose. Ours are not. We walk the property, count the bed square footage, look at how much debris is actually sitting there, and price the visit against the real work involved rather than an average.
If the property has been neglected for a season or two, the first cleanup is heavier and we say so up front. After that, the same property usually settles into a lighter, cheaper routine, especially when it is paired with landscape maintenance visits through the growing season.
- Leaf and winter debris removal from beds, lawn, and fence lines
- Cutting back perennials and ornamental grasses left standing over winter
- Light shrub pruning and shaping where the plant calls for it
- Hand edging or machine edging to redefine every bed line
- Weed removal and a pre-emergent option before mulch goes down
- Full haul away of all debris, plus blowing off drives and walks
Mulch
Mulch Installation and Delivery Done Right
Mulch installation is not decoration. A correct two to three inch layer holds soil moisture through an Indiana August, keeps the root zone cooler, slows down the weed seed that blows in all summer, and protects heavy clay soil from baking into a crust. It also happens to make a property look twice as expensive as it did the week before.
Depth is where most mulch jobs go wrong. Too thin and the weeds walk right through it and the color fades by July. Too thick and water never reaches the roots, and mulch piled against trunks in a volcano traps moisture against bark and invites rot and rodents. We pull mulch back off trunks and crowns, keep depth consistent across the bed, and feather it clean into the edge so the line stays crisp.
We handle both mulch delivery and mulch installation: hardwood mulch, and dyed black and brown mulch in the colors most Central Indiana properties use. Mulch cost is quoted by the cubic yard installed, which covers the material, the labor, and the bed edging that makes the line look finished, and we can quote rock or stone where a bed would be better off with something permanent. If a bed is fighting drainage or erosion instead of just weeds, that is usually a design problem rather than a mulch problem, and landscape design is the better conversation.
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Timing
When to Schedule, and Why It Matters
There is a real window here. Cleanups should happen before bulbs and perennials push new growth, because pulling matted debris out of a bed full of tender shoots means damage. Mulch should follow the cleanup rather than lead it, and it should go down early enough that the pre-emergent underneath it is working before crabgrass germinates.
Miss the window and you spend the rest of the season chasing. Hit it and the property essentially coasts, which is why we push clients to lock a date rather than wait for a warm Saturday to remind them.
- Early March: cleanups begin as soon as the ground firms up
- Late March to April: peak cleanup and mulch season, book early
- April to May: pre-emergent window before summer weed pressure
- May onward: mulch top-offs and touch-ups on lighter properties
After the Cleanup
Keeping It Looking That Way
A cleanup buys you a clean starting point. What keeps it is the routine that follows. Weekly mowing and lawn maintenance keeps the edges tight and the property looking cared for every seven days. Lawn treatments handle the weed and fertility side so the turf thickens instead of thinning.
Then in October and November the same crew comes back through for seasonal cleanup and leaf removal, and the property goes into winter clean instead of buried. Plenty of clients bundle spring cleanup, mulch, mowing, and fall cleanup into one season with one point of contact and one invoice rhythm. Properties that only want the leaves handled can book leaf removal service on its own.
The Details
Edges, Depth, and the Things People Notice
From the street, a landscape reads in about two seconds, and what registers first is the line where mulch meets turf. A clean trenched edge makes even simple plantings look designed. A blurred edge makes expensive plantings look neglected.
The other thing people notice, without knowing why, is consistency. Mulch that is three inches deep at the front of a bed and half an inch deep behind the shrubs looks fine in April and looks patchy by July, when the thin sections have faded and started showing soil. We work the whole bed to the same depth so it ages evenly.
- A cut edge with a defined trench rather than a smeared line
- Consistent mulch depth across the whole bed, not just the front
- Mulch pulled back off trunks, crowns, and siding
- Beds weeded before mulch, not mulched over the top of weeds
The PMT Difference
A Lawn & Landscape Company You Can Trust
Homeowners, property managers, and facility teams across Johnson County keep working with us for the same handful of reasons.
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We know Central Indiana ground
Heavy clay soil, cool-season turf, and Indiana's swing from wet spring to dry August all change how a property should be treated. We plan around the conditions we work in every day.
02
We treat the property like our own
Clean edges, blown-off walks, straightened bed lines. The details you would notice at your own house are the details we finish every visit with.
03
We show up on time and communicate
You know who is coming, when they are coming, and what happens next. From the first estimate through the last cleanup of the season.
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5.0 stars across 300+ reviews
Locally owned since 2015, licensed, bonded, and insured. Big enough to serve, small enough to care.
Questions & Answers
Spring Cleanup & Mulch FAQs
It depends on bed square footage and how much of last year's mulch is still holding. One cubic yard covers roughly 100 square feet at three inches deep. We measure the beds during the estimate so you get a real number rather than a guess.
Mulch is priced per cubic yard installed, so the number moves with bed square footage and the depth the beds actually need. We measure the beds on site and quote the delivery, the installation, and the bed edging together as one number.
Usually not, because old mulch breaks down into the soil and feeds it. We remove or reduce it when the buildup is already past three inches, when it has crusted over and started shedding water, or when it is piled against trunks and crowns.
Natural hardwood plus the dyed brown, black, and red options most Central Indiana properties use. We can also quote decorative rock for beds where a permanent surface makes more sense than an annual refresh.
Yes. Plenty of clients book the cleanup alone, especially in years where last season's mulch still has depth and color. The two are priced separately, so you can take either one.
Most residential cleanup and mulch jobs are a single day with a full crew. Larger properties, heavy first-year cleanups, and commercial sites can run two days, and we tell you which one you are before we start.
We do. Retail centers, offices, HOAs, and multifamily sites all run spring cleanup and mulch through us, often as part of a broader commercial grounds maintenance program.
Book Your Spring Cleanup Before the Season Fills
PMT Lawn & Landscape has been cleaning up, edging, and mulching Central Indiana properties since 2015, licensed, bonded, and insured. Spring is the shortest season we work, and the schedule closes in the order calls come in, serving Indianapolis and the surrounding areas.
PMT Lawn & Landscape serves Greenwood, Center Grove, Franklin, Bargersville, Mooresville, and Southport. Call (317) 910-1257 or request an estimate and we will get you on the schedule.
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