Landscaping & Lawn Care

Landscaping and lawn care for Stowe mountain properties

A lawn in Stowe is not a suburban rectangle. It is a slope, a septic field, a plow berm, and six months of freeze-thaw. Stowe Home Care Maintenance has cut, repaired, and brought those yards back since 1980 — for year-round houses, ski-week second homes, and HOAs that cannot look abandoned in June.

The problems a Green Mountains lawn actually has

Mud season and plow damage
April sand and salt do not rinse off. They sit in the crown, kill grass at the driveway edge, and leave ruts where the plow dropped a wing. If you seed over that without opening the soil, you buy seed twice.

Second homes that sit all week
A lot that looks fine on a Friday in May is a meadow by July 4. Out-of-state owners call when the neighbors start mowing around their property line. We put those addresses on a route so the lawn is a lawn when you pull in, not a project.

Woods-edge brush, ticks, and shade
Maple and hemlock lots grow in from the tree line. That is where ticks concentrate and where a walk-behind mower stops being the right tool. We keep the usable yard open and the woods a woods — not a thicket against the deck.

Steep ground, septic, and wellheads
We mow and trim around the things a weekend crew clips: septic lids, well casings, stone walls, and the last ten feet of a steep drive. Tell us what cannot be hit. We mark it.

What we do on a landscaping plan

Weekly and biweekly mowing
Route mowing for Stowe, Waterbury, and Morrisville properties. Edges, clippings handled, and a consistent height so you are not looking at a hayfield after two weeks of rain.

Spring cleanup that is not cosmetic
We pull winter sand off the turf, lift the beds, clear the stuff the snow hid, and tell you honestly if the lawn needs aeration and seed or just a first cut.

Turf renovation after winter kill
Core aeration, overseeding matched to cool-season Vermont grass, topdressing of plow ruts, and recovery of bare strips along the drive. Late summer into early fall is the window that takes here. Spring is for cleanup and a plan.

Brush, field edges, and the land you actually own
Brush hogging and brush clearing for the acres behind the lawn: fence rows, meadow, and the access you need for a survey or a new septic. That work lives on its own service pages if you only need that piece.

Who this is for

• Year-round owners who want one local crew, not a new kid every June
• Second-home families who land on a Friday and need the place guest-ready
• HOAs and associations that already trust us on snow and want the same standard on grass
• Anyone whose last "landscaper" disappeared after the first muddy April

How to get on the route

Send the address, a few photos of the lot, and whether you need weekly mowing, a one-time recovery, or a full-season plan. We quote from what is on the ground, not a national menu.

Areas we serve

Stowe is home base: mountain drives, second homes, inns, and HOAs. The trucks start here.

Waterbury is second-home country off the mountain — same freeze, same empty-week risk, same crew.

Morrisville is the village; Morristown is the town. Commercial lots, year-round houses, and drives that take plow abuse all winter.

Hyde Park drives are long and rural. Washouts and winter access are the usual calls.

Elmore is camp and seasonal-house country — properties that go dark between weekends.

Bolton and Richmond sit west toward the gap. We take jobs that fit the Stowe-based route, not every driveway in Chittenden.

Waitsfield, Fayston, and Moretown are Mad River towns we already run for snow, drainage, and house checks. Stowe owns the headline; these are towns the crew actually reaches.

If you are on the county line, call (802) 888-7736. Driveway and route fit matter more than the map.

Call (802) 888-7736 or email pm@shcm.co.