CommercialGrounds Management & Maintenance
In an ICON partnership, commercial grounds management and maintenance are handled by our knowledgeable and skilled grounds crews, ensuring a seamless transition from season to season. First impressions are impactful and memorable, and your lawn often serves as the initial impression for potential clients visiting your commercial facility. Our commercial client base focuses on corporate campuses, office buildings, and industrial, medical, and retail locations.co
Seasonal Clean Up
Seasonal clean-up is essential to keep your commercial lawn in optimal shape between and during each season, especially in the Midwest. To ensure a smooth transition from winter to spring and fall to winter, our team provides both spring and fall clean-ups to leave your lawn in proper shape to take on the next season ahead.
Minnesota winters are tough on your landscape. Spring clean-up removes the mess of winter and prepares it for the summer ahead.
– Debris Removal for turf and landscape bed areas
– Intital Mowing
– Turf dethatching
– Perennial Cut-Backs
Fall clean-up prepares your landscape for the long winter ahead.
– Debris removed from site
– Blowing and raking of leaves and debris
– Perennial cut-backs
– Final mowing and detailing of site
Weekly Commercial Lawn Services
ICON Outdoor Services will visit your site on a weekly basis and perform standard grounds maintenance procedures to keep your site looking its best to ensure it’s weed-free and your curb appeal is always top-notch.
Detailing Maintenance
– Turf mowing
– Landscape areas detailed weekly
– Mechanical string line trimming
– Weeds pulled or treated chemically
– Litter and debris removal
Tree and Shrub Pruning
Tree and shrub pruning is essential to a well-groomed and maintained commercial lawn. The skilled ICON crew is trained to prune in a way that promotes plant health on your commercial property. Pruning also acts as preventive maintenance, addressing both insect and disease damage. Our crew removes dead or dying branches, branches injured by disease or pests, branches that rub together, and branch stubs, ensuring proper pruning techniques.
Benefits of pruning:
Promote healthy and controlled plant growth
Pruning opens up tree canopies, increasing airflow and light to stems and branches allowing for more flowers, leaves and fruits.
Removal of dead, diseased, or injured plant parts to promote healthy growth.
Removal of branches and limbs that are overgrown and causing hazardous conditions such as obstruction of driving lanes and walking paths.
Perennial Bed Maintenance
Maintaining perennial beds ensures healthier and consistent growth and appearance through cutbacks in the Spring and Fall. ICON’s perennial bed maintenance programs throughout the year ensure your commercial site is always looking its best.
Perennial Bed Maintenance Yearly Calendar
+ March
Cut back tall grass, prune flowers, test soil.
+ April
Gradually remove winter protection, weed, mulch, and edge, thin and divide pans, and plant bare-root plants.
+ May
Weed, water newly planted plants, fertilize as per soil test, pinch back plants, and thin plants.
+ June
Weed, water, scout for pests, pinch and deadhead, and cut back.
+ July
Weed, water, fertilize heavy feeders, and deadhead.
+ August
Weed and water.
+ September
Edge beds, water, move and divide plants, and cutback.
+ October/November
Weed, water, and mulch.
Fertilization and Weed Control
At ICON, we partner with our clients to promote healthy turf growth and control turf and landscape bed weeds. We thoroughly inspect your grounds for signs of invasive weeds and can design a customized weed control program. This program reduces insect and rodent harborages, protects your lawn and landscape plants from invasion, manages vegetation, minimizes fire hazards, and enhances the overall appearance of your commercial property.
ICON operates on the Three Application Program: Spring, Summer, and Fall applications of dry granular slow-release fertilizer, pre-emergent, and broadleaf weed control to ensure a lush, vibrant, and weed-free turf.
There are three major types of weeds we look out for:
Examples of perennial weeds include dandelions, thistles, and daisies. These weeds develop massive, complex root systems, enabling them to regrow every year. They are challenging to eliminate because even if the root system is removed, any remaining fragments can lead to resurgence of the entire system.
Examples of annuals include chickweed and groundsel. These weeds germinate, flower, and die within a year, but can quickly spread seeds and establish a persistent presence in your lawn or garden.
Examples of bulbil-producing weeds include Oxalis and buttercups. These weeds produce networks of miniature bulbs that usually require chemical treatment for effective eradication.
Power Edging
Power edging mechanically removes overgrown turf along sidewalks and curb lines to create a professional, clean, and uniform look. Power edging is often an overlooked practice that we take extreme pride in here at ICON.
Benefits of Power Edging:
Uniform grass lines
Removes grass clippings that accumulate on the edge of the grass
Eliminates overgrowth
Allows for a smoother snow removal process in the winter
Aerating - Commercial Grounds
To aerate our commercial clients’ properties, ICON employs commercial-grade machinery that utilizes hollow tines or spoons to bring soil cores to the surface, ensuring long-term effectiveness. We run a core aerifier over the commercial lawn multiple times in different directions to maximize soil compaction reduction.
Aerification enhances moisture and air penetration into compacted soils, promoting the establishment of deeper and healthier root systems. It also stimulates microbial activity involved in decomposing the thatch layer.
The ideal time for aerating is between late August and early October, depending on your location. Spring or summer aerification can also be successful, especially when followed by regular, frequent watering. In spring, it is advisable to wait until you have mowed the lawn twice before aerifying.
Soil Testing
At ICON, our expert lawn care crews perform annual soil testing on existing soil to measure composition, nutrient content, acidity, salinity, toxicity, organic matter, and other properties to optimize turf growth and soil quality. It provides you with unbiased research-based fertilizer and lime recommendations to manage your soil to grow greener lawns and healthy gardens. It is a cost-effective way to maintain good plant health and maximum productivity without polluting the environment by over-application of nutrients. Soil tests are often taken in the spring and fall for established sites. As for new sites, soil tests can be done whenever the soil is in a workable phase.