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Garden Maintenance

At Vessel Kitchen Gardens, we believe in nurturing gardens with a holistic approach that honors the earth and its inhabitants. Our practices embrace sustainability, utilizing local amendments and plants, while minimizing waste through permaculture, veganic, and biodynamic principles.

 

We prioritize manual and fine gardening techniques, foregoing the use of gas mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers. Instead, we lovingly tend to your garden by hand, incorporating methods such as hand weeding, mulching, and natural pest control. We're whole-heartedly a "leave the leaves" and "chop and drop" kind of company - traditional landscaping is not what we do and we pride ourselves on that. Our commitment to sustainability extends to every aspect of our maintenance, ensuring that your outdoor space thrives in balance with the environment, bringing joy and vitality to your home.

 

Maintenance visits can be scheduled as frequently as every other week, monthly, seasonally, or we can set up a yearly plan to make sure your garden has what it needs year round.

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Maintenance tasks can include:

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  • Weeding (no pesticides)

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  • Natural pest preventers/deterrents

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  • Pruning of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees (nothing over 6 ft)

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  • Natural mulch refreshing

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  • Sheet mulching for lawn removal

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  • Harvesting food crops

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  • Harvesting cut flowers

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  • Seasonal clean-ups

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  • Adding compost or other organic matter such as leaves, grass clippings, brown paper, etc.

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  • Adding amendments to raised beds, in ground beds, or paths

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  • Removing dead, diseased, or spent plants

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  • "Chop and drop" green matter in place, composting them if needed

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  • Raking leaves into beds where they can protect plants and create healthy soil. We are "leave the leaves" people

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  • Adding plant matter to in-bed vermicomposter

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  • Adding plant tags to new or existing plants

 

Concierge Services:

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Concierge services such as plant shopping, supply shopping, research, plant or amendment pickup and delivery, preserving, drying, and freezing harvests, flower arranging, and more can be booked as an add on service, at a rate of $50 per hour. Please reach out here to book concierge services.

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What Our Clients Say

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