If you’re waiting for some landscape work to get done this spring you are not alone. Soggy conditions have landscape companies backed up more than a month behind schedule.
In 46 years of landscaping, Ken Schuster, owner of Greenleaf Landscaping Gardens, has never seen a spring quite like this.
“I think the word for this year would be frustration. It’s been terrible, extreme wet, a lot of cold and late season warm up, the ground is really soggy, you can’t get equipment in and out,” says Schuster.
At Greenleaf Landscaping and Gardens though, equipment has to be used.
“This is our haul trail for bringing in our evergreen trees and burlap trees, normally this is rock hard clay soil in mid May,” says Schuster.
This spring the haul trail is a quagmire.
“A yard would look just like this if we were to go in on it at this time of the year with the conditions.,” says Schuster of the muddy mess.
Right now, Schuster says he’s at least a month behind schedule.
Customers browsing around his business tonight understand why their landscaping plans are on hold.
“It’ll have to wait, she’s pretty wet back there, we’ve had an awful spring, it’s been rain, rain, rain and before that it was snow, snow, snow,” says Al Mueske from Brillion.
“Everybody is aware of it and mostly everybody is cooperative and understanding and cutting us a little slack,” says Schuster.
Schuster knows customer patience won’t last forever.
He’s expecting, and hoping, to have crews working extra hours in the days and weeks to come.
“People have graduations and weddings and deadlines we have to meet, so yeah they’re be lots of overtime I thing when the sun shines.,” says Schuster.
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