Irrigation System Design and Installtion

Monday, February 15, 2010 Posted by admin
Irrigation System Design and Installation
Irrigation system design and installation is a task that requires an experienced project manager. It is not a do-it-yourself project by any means, due to the technical nature of the components involved. Hiring a door knocking contractor will not bring satisfactory results or an ongoing commitment to success like you are guaranteed when you work with Peach Tree Inc.

Many landscaping areas are not flat. They have slopes and hills or valleys to add beauty and diversity to the lawn areas. This type of terrain requires special knowledge for irrigation system design and installation to achieve proper watering. If an irrigation system is designed poorly, dry areas will appear and the system will not perform properly.

There are many components that make up an irrigation system, including sprinklers, valves, controllers, central controls and sensors. Many technical calculations must be done to determine the proper pipe sizing, water pressure, volume and head spacing for the irrigation system. This should be done at the design stage and not later when a problem arises. Planning is the best solution for avoiding expensive redesign or repair work.

Peach Tree Inc. is the best choice for irrigation design and installation. Our professional landscape crews have received many prestigious awards for their projects. We are experienced in working with all types of terrain in the middle Tennessee region, and we service over 400 satisfied clients in towns from Nashville to Springfield, Murfreesboro to Clarksville and others. We will design a custom system appropriate for your lawn and beds. We do not work by guessing; we know what to do.

Peach Tree Inc. services all systems that we install, and provide year around maintenance and troubleshooting services. Winterization is important for maintaining your installed irrigation system. Our experience brings you streamlined service and lower costs to create maximum value for every dollar you spend. Our custom systems can reduce your plant losses and cut maintenance personnel costs. Because the system waters at night, no pedestrian traffic is interfered with during daytime hours.

Large corporations trust Peach Tree Inc. with their landscaping, property maintenance, lighting, irrigation, parking lot maintenance and other landscape services. We gladly serve residential property as well as commercial and industrial locations for the entire central Tennessee region. Call our headquarters today for more information, or explore our website, www.peachtreeinc.com, for project details, testimonials, and photographs. Allow Peach Tree Inc. to beautify your landscaping today.

Turf Aeration and Overseeding

Saturday, January 23, 2010 Posted by admin

Turf Aeration and Overseeding

Annual turf aeration and overseeding are two methods for improving the looks and health of lawn areas. These procedures are done preferably in the fall, but are also effective when done in the early spring. Peach Tree Inc. Landscaping is well experienced with managing turf aeration and overseeding for the types of turf areas found in central Tennessee.

Turf Aeration by core plugging is a process that helps the soil by puncturing it with a special machine that removes small cores from the soil. Cores are reabsorbed into the lawn naturally. Core plugging turf areas encourages healthy growth by reducing soil compaction. The core holes allow air and water to get deep into the top layer of soil and help get nutrients and seeds into the soil. This is an important process to help stimulate root growth.

Aeration is an effective way to renew lawn areas that have heavy traffic or that are looking old and patchy. Peach Tree professional landscaping crews perform aeration and overseeding for many clients in towns across this area, including Murfreesboro, Manchester, Brentwood, Bowling Green, Gallatin, Spring Hill and Nashville.

Overseeding is another important annual lawn treatment that is frequently performed after core plugging to introduce new grass coverage to an area. Seeds are distributed over the existing lawn areas to boost new grass growth and help eliminate patchy or brown areas. Peach Tree performs overseeding with a premium turf type fescue grass following core plugging.

Peach Tree Inc. professional work crews are familiar with all soil conditions in the central Tennessee area. They take care when doing aeration to avoid damage to any sprinkler heads, underground shallow lines, and underground utility, cable or septic lines.

Call Peach Tree for your annual aeration and overseeding of lawn areas in the fall or springtime for best results. Attractive and healthy lawn areas require regular maintenance and care. Peach Tree is an award winning landscape and irrigation company located in Central Tennessee.

Snow and Ice Services

Thursday, January 14, 2010 Posted by admin

Snow and Ice Services

 Snow and ice services are another specialty of Peach Tree Inc. Winter snow and ice management is just as important to landscaping as summer lawn and yard management tasks. Our landscaping professionals stay busy all year around because the central Tennessee area gets its fair share of winter snow and ice, including some heavy accumulations and snow banks.

When a winter storm threatens, one of the best things to be done is the pre-application of snow and ice melting chemicals. Salt is not preferred because it can damage paved surfaces and lawn and garden areas. Our crews apply a calcium chloride granular chemical for melting snow and ice. We never use salt. Using a pre-application will prevent ice build up from forming and make snow removal easier. During harsh weather outbreaks, you can rely on Peach Tree Inc. to arrive as scheduled to clear your parking lots and paved areas from dangerous snow and ice.

Our professional landscape crews are on the way to towns all over the Central Tennessee area, from Nashville to Cookeville and other towns. We are regularly seen at large and small businesses, as well as personal residences. No job is too big or too small for Peach Tree Inc. Our operators are experienced and ready to respond to every call quickly. We do our job thoroughly and safely. When there are heavy accumulations, we bring out our quality snow plows and other snow and ice removal equipment. Businesses value our services because they know that keeping a business open in all types of weather is essential to successful operations.

Maintaining landscaping and paved surfaces is just as important in winter as in summer. Keeping parking lots clear of snow, ice or debris is a safety factor and that is one job that cannot wait. Call on Peach Tree Inc. or visit our website for details, www.peachtreeinc.com. We are ready to serve and are regularly on the job in middle Tennessee towns like Murfreesboro, Clarksville, Franklin, Manchester, Henderson, Gallatin and Brentwood.

We are proud to be the recipient of the “Best Landscape Contractor” award from Murfreesboro Magazine. The Nashville Chamber of Commerce has also bestowed the “Beautification Award” upon our company recently. We proudly serve the entire mid state region of Tennessee. We offer everyone the highest quality services at the best prices all year around. Call us today for top quality landscaping in any season.

Ornamental Shrub Care

Monday, December 28, 2009 Posted by admin

Peach Tree Inc landscaping is well aware of the importance of ornamental management. In addition to our design, installation and maintenance services, we specialize in protection of your landscaping investments. Ornamental shrubs, trees, flowers and bushes require simple preventative applications of fungicides or pesticides in a timely manner. This monitoring for insects and ornamental plant diseases is incorporated into our affordable landscape maintenance packages that can save thousands of dollars in replacements should damage be allowed to progress unchecked.

Our service crews will inspect ornamental plantings to determine the sources of problems. They are experienced and trained to know what to look for in different types of plants and trees. The middle Tennessee area has specialized ornamental management needs that are constantly changing as the landscapes around the area are redone and replanted. Problems can show up on flowers, leaves or on the entire plant.

For some areas of grass there is endophytic fungus that is the problem. In fescue grasses the problem fungus actually gives a benefit to the grass although the end result is bad for wildlife. The fungus causes the grasses to become inedible due to toxic qualities. Knowing what to look for, how to treat the problem and what time of year is best for treatment is essential to solving these problems. Timing of herbicide application is critical. Peach Tree landscape crews will treat your ornamentals properly and at the right time for success.

Our service teams and design teams work together in landscape planning, to try to avoid future problems from the beginning. If certain trees are planted they will be subject to weather breakage problems (Hackberry, Virginia Pine, Chinaberry, Weeping Willows) or insect invasion. Silver Maple and Boxelder are notorious for hosting mites, aphids and scales that damage the trees and create lawn litter. Other trees like Norway Maple make growing grass underneath the trees a problem. Many trees are subject to pests including Eastern Tent Caterpillars, Fall Webworms, Cankerworms, Gypsy Moths and Sawfiles. They can become unsightly with seeds, pods, bird droppings, smelly odors and other problems that planning prior to planting can avoid.

Problems will produce unsightly damage on flowers, leaves or on the entire plant. Ornamental management is a Peach Tree Inc specialty. We have received many honors and awards including “Best Landscaping Contractor” from Murfreesboro Magazine. We serve over 400 clients in Nashville and hundreds more in the central Tennessee area. Our crews service properties in Franklin, Clarksville, Gallatin, Hendersonville, Brentwood and other towns with design, installation, irrigation, lighting and maintenance services.

We provide ornamental management services to residences and large corporations such as McDonald’s, Kohl’s, Wal-Mart and Lowes. To set up an appointment or consultation just visit our website at http://www.peachtreeinc.comor contact our Peach Tree Inc landscaping home offices. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and ornamentals can be very weighty! Call today for fast service from the experts in ornamental management at Peach Tree.

Landscape Design

Friday, December 18, 2009 Posted by admin

Landscape Design

 At Peach Tree Inc., our landscape design team envisions your property as an opportunity to create a fresh new living work of art. Professional landscaping adds value to your industrial, commercial or residential property and designing can be done at any time. Experience shows that the best time to bring in our in house landscape design team is during the initial planning stages prior to building. It is like starting with a blank canvas and creating a masterpiece with all the little essentials included.

Our team meets with clients to gather and exchange ideas to formulate a game plan that will efficiently and effectively create all the landscape features desired by the client that also work for the property. Our design services include planning, installation and maintenance services. Irrigation systems, piping, outdoor lighting, patio, deck, garden and water features are all important to proper landscape design. Our award winning staff is also proficient at planning and maintenance of hardscape areas such as patios, paved areas, and walkways.

Our Peach Tree staff includes an award winning landscape designer who is available for consultation and creation of custom master landscape plans for our clients in middle Tennessee. Our company serves commercial, industrial and residential customers in the central area of the state including Nashville, Bowling Green, Clarksville and Franklin. Our crews do maintenance regularly in all size towns and are always able to add new clients to our service routes.

We have over 400 clients in Nashville. Large corporations such as Wal-Mart, Lowes, Taco Bell, Cracker Barrel, McDonald’s, Kohl’s and Kroger have entrusted landscape services to Peach Tree Inc. We have many satisfied customers in Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, Brentwood, Clarksville, Manchester, Springfield and Cookville.

Our landscape design team starts from below the ground up, planning for custom irrigation systems, plant and garden beds, green areas and water features. They take all the guess work and hassles that come with achieving proper watering out of your project so your project progresses smoothly. Being able to get a photo finish look when completed is only possible with expert landscape design planning from the start.

You can rely on Peach Tree Inc. for continued maintenance service to keep your landscaping looking exactly as planned. Maintenance also keeps costs to a minimum as problems that might develop are caught promptly. We take Tennessee pride to heart and will be around for years to come with the same excellence of service. The size of our company also benefits your landscaping projects as we are able to make advantageous purchases for projects and have the best equipment available.

Contact our office or visit our website at www.peachtreeinc.com to arrange for professional custom landscape design service for your property location.

Turf Fertilization & Weed Control Programs

Friday, December 18, 2009 Posted by admin

As a full service landscape and irrigation company, Peach Tree Inc. covers all aspects of turf care and maintenance. Our professional landscape design team and service crews fully understand turf care and landscape design. They recognize that protecting the investment clients make in landscape beautification is essential to our business success and customer satisfaction. As professionals they take pride in being up to date on all the latest products for turf care.

To keep landscaping in prime condition and health we recommend our Peach Tree Inc. complete turf fertilization and weed control program. This program provides scheduled applications of the appropriate types of fertilizer and weed control products at five critical times of the year. Applications are made during February, April, July, September and October.

Early in the year, before the growing season begins, we apply the pre-emergant herbicides that help to prevent weed seed growth from the start. These products kill weeds but not turf. Later in the season is the time for post-emergants that will kill any unsightly weeds that happen to germinate. Our granular fertilizers give turf the boost it requires for thick, healthy and green growth throughout the growing season.

Keeping landscape weed free gives turf the optimum opportunity for health and growth. Weeds are unsightly and soak up soil nutrients that the turf should be absorbing. Without weeds, which can grow in harsh conditions and spread readily, the turf areas have the best chance to thrive and continue to look green and healthy. Fertilization prompts healthy root and shoot growth in turf areas and is an essential part of any landscaping investment.

Applications of turf fertilizer and weed herbicides need to match a geographical area. We service all of central Tennessee and have over 400 clients in Nashville alone. Our Peach Tree professional landscaping crews administer customized turf fertilization and weed programs all over the middle Tennessee region. They visit large and small towns from Hendersonville to Clarksville, Brentwood, Springfield, Cookville and other cities in the center of the state.

For answers and quotes please contact our offices or see our website at http://www.peachtreeinc.comregarding professional landscaping design and services including turf fertilization and weed control programs for your property.

Landscape Design

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Posted by admin

Landscape Design

 At Peach Tree Inc., our landscape design team envisions your property as an opportunity to create a fresh new living work of art. Professional landscaping adds value to your industrial, commercial or residential property and designing can be done at any time. Experience shows that the best time to bring in our in house landscape design team is during the initial planning stages prior to building. It is like starting with a blank canvas and creating a masterpiece with all the little essentials included.

Our team meets with clients to gather and exchange ideas to formulate a game plan that will efficiently and effectively create all the landscape features desired by the client that also work for the property. Our design services include planning, installation and maintenance services. Irrigation systems, piping, outdoor lighting, patio, deck, garden and water features are all important to proper landscape design. Our award winning staff is also proficient at planning and maintenance of hardscape areas such as patios, paved areas, and walkways.

Our Peach Tree staff includes an award winning landscape designer who is available for consultation and creation of custom master landscape plans for our clients in middle Tennessee. Our company serves commercial, industrial and residential customers in the central area of the state including Nashville, Bowling Green, Clarksville and Franklin. Our crews do maintenance regularly in all size towns and are always able to add new clients to our service routes.

We have over 400 clients in Nashville. Large corporations such as Wal-Mart, Lowes, Taco Bell, Cracker Barrel, McDonald’s, Kohl’s and Kroger have entrusted landscape services to Peach Tree Inc. We have many satisfied customers in Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, Brentwood, Clarksville, Manchester, Springfield and Cookville.

Our landscape design team starts from below the ground up, planning for custom irrigation systems, plant and garden beds, green areas and water features. They take all the guess work and hassles that come with achieving proper watering out of your project so your project progresses smoothly. Being able to get a photo finish look when completed is only possible with expert landscape design planning from the start.

You can rely on Peach Tree Inc. for continued maintenance service to keep your landscaping looking exactly as planned. Maintenance also keeps costs to a minimum as problems that might develop are caught promptly. We take Tennessee pride to heart and will be around for years to come with the same excellence of service. The size of our company also benefits your landscaping projects as we are able to make advantageous purchases for projects and have the best equipment available.

Contact our headquarters or visit our website at http://www.peachtreeinc.comto arrange for professional custom landscape design service for your property location.

Parking Lot Sweeping

Monday, December 7, 2009 Posted by admin
Parking lot sweeping sounds like a simple chore but to do it properly requires the right equipment, trained staff and a desire to be the best in the business. At Peachtree Inc., we provide top quality parking lot sweeping including catching all those easy to miss places like corners, curbs and behind buildings.

Our company has an entire division devoted to parking lot maintenance and sweeping. We go nightly to large shopping centers, hotels, apartments and other commercial properties to vacuum up trash and debris from the day’s business traffic. Our two man crews work as a team with one man operating the sweeper truck and the other blowing trash or debris out from hidden places to where the sweeper truck can vacuum all of it up. They make sure all parts and corners of the parking lot are clean and catch any random trash from behind the buildings as well. It is a thorough job that other vendors do not bother to do as well. We leave parking lots spotless, every night. Our clients include major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Lowes, Kroger, Publix and others.

Parking lot sweeping is important because having your lots cleaned at night means your business is ready for customers by looking sharp every morning. There are no unsightly cigarette butts, gravel or trash to greet your customers and proper sweeping helps keep your paved areas safer. We also change trash can liners and hand blow debris away from entrance ways and walkways.

As a full service landscape and irrigation company we are familiar with the best equipment companies and use sweeper trucks from top notch manufacturers like Swartz and Tymco. We service clients all over the middle Tennessee area in large towns like Nashville to small towns and industrial parks. Parking lot sweeping is an important part of our property maintenance division business just as is outdoor lighting, irrigation service and installation, and landscape design and installation.

If you are in Murfreesboro, Gallatin, Hendersonville, Clarksville, Brentwood, Franklin or towns in between, we will be in your central Tennessee neighborhood as we care for commercial properties. In Nashville alone we have over 400 clients such as Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Cracker Barrel, Kohl’s, McDonald’s and more. We are no strangers to towns like Bowling Green, Springfield, Cookville, Manchester or Spring Hill. Just call our office headquarters or visit http://www.peachtreeinc.comfor service to your commercial location.

Irrigation managment and water conservation

Monday, November 30, 2009 Posted by admin

Irrigation Management and Water Conservation Preventative maintenance applies equally to your irrigation management and water conservation measures just like it does to any other complex mechanical equipment. Regular irrigation system inspections should be done monthly for optimum continued performance and prevention of problems that could be expensive. Broken heads, leaks and wasted water lead to equipment failure, misuse and waste of water resources and can cause water bills to skyrocket if left unseen and unrepaired.

Water waste and conservation procedures are very important current issues in the irrigation management industry. Routine inspections of irrigation and water control systems will catch problems before they cost clients up to thousands of dollars in excessive water bills. We service hundreds of clients in the central Tennessee area and are experts at doing irrigation management and water conservation. If your business is located anywhere near the central Tennessee area from Brentwood to Bowling Green or Clarksville to Cookeville, call on Peach Tree Landscaping for regular irrigation maintenance services. We are regularly in the areas of Nashville, Franklin, Spring Hill, Manchester and Murfreesboro with our award winning landscaping teams and can easily make a stop at your business.

Visit our website at http://www.peachtreeinc.comfor a complete listing of our service potential. Peach Tree teams will visit your location monthly and check the entire irrigation system for problems. In winter and spring they can also do your cold weather winterization and spring start up service. Leaks are never good even if they are outdoors. When you are pumping water it should go where you want it to go and not pay for wasted water resources. Irrigation systems experience heavy duty use and that is another reason for doing regular service maintenance on your system. Clients in Gallatin, Henderson, and Spring Hill are enjoying the peace of mind that regular maintenance of expensive irrigation systems brings. This type of service is best done by our professionals who know just what to look for and how to make needed repairs. Cut service costs to a minimum by having regular maintenance done monthly and catch problems before they become systemic and expensive. Call Peach Tree Landscaping today or get in touch with us through our website contact link. Landscaping requires more than a sprinkler and push mower to keep a business in top condition. We have the equipment and the professional staff to do your job efficiently and properly, every time. If you are cutting costs, be sure that a Peach Tree Landscaping crew is doing the cutting for you! Peach Tree serves all of central Tennessee with superior landscaping services.

We can come in on the ground floor when you purchase property, work with you for years, or salvage a disaster in progress on property recently purchased. Good looking landscaping makes good sense and saves you money in the long run. It is an investment that will grow even more beautiful over the years you own your property and aid conservation efforts at the same time.

Irrigation System Service and Winterization

Friday, November 20, 2009 Posted by admin

Call upon the middle Tennessee experts at Peach Tree Landscaping for your biannual irrigation system service and winterization service. It is essential to properly protect your investment in your irrigation system from winter damage caused by freezing temperatures. Without proper professional preparation your system has many points at which costly damage may occur. Winterization prior to the first frost is the best way to prevent damage to equipment and added repair expense.

We offer winterization services to all areas of middle Tennessee from Nashville and Murfreesboro to Hendersonville, Gallatin, Clarksville and others. Peach Tree’s award winning service crews will come to your location and make ready for the winter onslaught all the pipes, valves, pumps, timers and other parts of your irrigation system.

From main shut off valve to underground piping your irrigation system requires a professional service treatment to insure that all parts of your system have no water left behind to expand during cold weather freezes. Blowing out irrigation systems can be a dangerous job. It is necessary to wear eye protection and gloves to prevent accidental injuries to those persons performing winterization service. Touching a high voltage wire or hot transformer may cause burns and high pressure compressed air blow outs could result in eye damage to those who are unprotected.

System drainage cannot be fully completed by gravity; it is important to get the system cleared of all water. Parts and pipes that are exposed to weather and that lie above the frost line must be winterized. In springtime call Peach Tree Landscaping to again turn your irrigation system on for the season. Technical expertise makes resetting of timers, stations and other aspects of irrigation systems a breeze instead of a nightmare.

Proper annual service to your irrigation system should be performed at least twice yearly, before and after winter freezing weather. Protect highly technical equipment properly to get longer lifetimes from your equipment and optimum operation. Modern systems have controllers, shut off valves, master valves, and pumps that can be damaged by overheating or by freezing temperatures. Any air vent or drain outlets need to remain clear and functioning properly for your system to continue to work.

If you are located in areas from Spring Hill to Cookeville, Bowling Green, Gallatin, Franklin and Brentwood call the award winning service team at Peach Tree. Visit our website for fast service and all the information you need, http://www.peachtreeinc.com