EC Landscaping and Lawn Care: Expert Landscapers Serving Everett, MA 02149

Poor grading directs water toward your home, causing foundation issues and mossy lawns. Our landscape design and building services include regrading your yard to create proper slope, installing functional drainage solutions like French drains or dry creek beds, and using strategic planting to absorb excess moisture. This corrects water flow at the source, protecting your property and creating a drier, healthier landscape.

Moss often indicates compacted soil, poor drainage, and excess shade. Our approach starts with core aeration and soil amendments to improve conditions. For moss in planting beds or under shrubs, our shrub care services include selective pruning to increase sunlight and air circulation, along with disease and insect management to keep plants healthy so they can better compete with moss. Sometimes, transplanting or removing overgrown shrubs is the best long-term solution for a sunnier, moss-resistant yard.

Absolutely. An improperly timed or calibrated irrigation system can worsen moss and erosion. Our custom irrigation design delivers water efficiently and only where needed, preventing the over-saturation that moss thrives in. For sloped or poorly graded areas, we design systems with targeted drip lines and proper zoning to deliver water efficiently to plant roots without over-saturating the soil. A well-designed system is a key tool in preventing the damp conditions that moss and drainage problems thrive on.