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Reppert Property Maintenance (RPM)

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Reppert Property Maintenance (RPM)

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Property Maintenance -Lawn care -lawn mowing -weed eating -mulching -landscaping -Excavating -drain tile/French drain -ditch Maintenance -Material delivery (haul up to 4 ton at a time ) -stone -top soil -mulch Owned and Operated Feel free to ask any questions

Property Maintenance -Lawn care -lawn mowing -weed eating -mulching -landscaping -Excavating -drain tile/French drain -ditch Maintenance -Material delivery (haul up to 4 ton at a time ) -stone -top soil -mulch Owned and Operated Feel free to ask any questions

Swope Tree Care

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Swope Tree Care

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12 years of experience

Swope Tree Care is fully insured and does free estimates complete affordable professional services Tree & landscaping services prunning trimming removal land clearing stump grinding cabling and managment Certified Arborist We are available 24hrs 7days a week

Swope Tree Care is fully insured and does free estimates complete affordable professional services Tree & landscaping services prunning trimming removal land clearing stump grinding cabling and managment Certified Arborist We are available 24hrs 7days a week

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Andrews Well Drilling

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We are a family-owned & operated company that has been serving Tioga County and the surrounding area since 1968, and are long-standing members of the National Groundwater Association, the Pennsylvania Groundwater Association, as well as a certifed dealer of pumps made by GOULDS Water Technology. Our friendly, experienced staff consists of 2 Office Administrators and 8 Site Workers. We are fully insured and service both commercial and residential customers. We accept cash; check; and MasterCard, Visa, and Discover credit cards.

We are a family-owned & operated company that has been serving Tioga County and the surrounding area since 1968, and are long-standing members of the National Groundwater Association, the Pennsylvania Groundwater Association, as well as a certifed dealer of pumps made by GOULDS Water Technology. Our friendly, experienced staff consists of 2 Office Administrators and 8 Site Workers. We are fully insured and service both commercial and residential customers. We accept cash; check; and MasterCard, Visa, and Discover credit cards.

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Mulch and Topsoil questions, answered by experts

The best mulches for trees are wood chips, bark nuggets, or pine straw. Depending on your goals, you may want to avoid using plastic, stone, rubber, or wet grass clippings. Plastic mulch prevents water from reaching the mulched areas of your tree, stones don’t offer any nutritional benefits to the soil, rubber can release byproducts into the soil when it decomposes, and wet grass clippings can lead to rot. 

Plastic may prove beneficial in cold climates in the winter, but wood chips are the ideal option for most environments.

While you don’t need to put anything down before mulch, you can apply a pre-emergent herbicide to prevent weed growth. As long as you remove weeds before you spread mulch, you should be in the clear. But a herbicide is something that you can put down before mulch as an extra layer of protection.

Regular maintenance involves raking or leveling out any displaced gravel, filling in low spots, and adding fresh gravel as needed to help prevent potholes and ruts. If you live in an area with heavy rain, checking the drainage and reinforcing the edges periodically can help prevent erosion.

Determine whether you have any other heavy, bulky, or oddly-shaped items you’d like to relocate, such as a washing machine or other appliance. Since many professional moving companies may charge minimum fees for their services, you could end up paying the same cost to move a refrigerator as you would to move the fridge and a second or third item.

You should use mulch because it protects garden soil in a few key ways. This extra layer between the ground and the elements protects against erosion, helps your soil maintain moisture, regulates changes in temperature, adds nutrients as it decomposes, and keeps weeds at bay.

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