Landscaping and Lawn Care in Hobart, IN

Hobart is an older town, built up around Lake George, and its established blocks show it. Canopy trees reach over the roofs, shrubs by the foundation have been growing for decades, and beds planted long ago have swallowed their own edges. Newer streets exist, but the character of the town is mature lots with mature everything on them.

The land rolls more here than across the flatter stretch of Northwest Indiana. Front yards that pitch toward the sidewalk shed water fast, and under the topsoil the ground is clay, so what the rain does not carry away it holds. A bed on that kind of slope either has a firm low edge or it ends up on the walk by the end of spring. We cut that edge, and where the water runs hardest we set stone.

Shade is the other constant. Grass under a heavy canopy grows thin and slow, so we mow it higher and lighter than a sunny lawn and do not chase bare patches that are really a light problem. Fall is the big event in Hobart. A single mature tree can drop more leaves than a curbside pile will hold, which is why a cleanup here ends with a loaded trailer instead of bags at the street.

Beds are where Hobart gains the most. When a planting has gone decades without a reset, fresh mulch only covers the problem. We cut back or pull what has outgrown its place, regrade so water drains, cut a clean edge and replant where it makes sense. Older properties also hold the heavy stuff, railroad ties, dead shrubs, broken concrete and brush behind the garage, and all of it rides out in the dump trailer.

Spring starts with the thaw, which leaves the yards wet, matted and littered with winter debris. We work the cleanup in as the ground firms, then move to mulch and rock once the beds are open. Weekly mowing begins on its own day when the grass takes off, and shaded lawns get going a little later than the sunny ones.

Merrillville and Portage are both close, and Hobart sits on our route out of the Valparaiso base. Ask for a free estimate and we walk the lot with you, look at the slope, the shade and how the trailer gets in, and write the price down before we start. Call or text 219-299-4132 between 7:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday.