Hardin Brothers Landscaping

Late Summer and Early Fall Updates

The roadside weedeating is finally coming to an end! We’ve gone through a lot of weedeater string and gas this summer in order to make our roadsides look good, but it is well worth it. Most of our roadside wildflowers are through blooming and have mostly been cut down by this point. The grass has also slowed down and now leaves have become our new focus.

Leaf Blowing at Amber Ranches

As you can see in the photo above, the deciduous trees at Amber Ranches can produce quite a few leaves! These leaves are beautiful to look at, but it’s also important to blow them off our roads and out of our ditches and culverts once they’ve all fallen.

It’s important to remove leaves from our roads, ditches and culverts for a variety of reasons. First of all, the leaves must be removed from the roads in order for the tractor to effectively scrape our roads. If the leaves are not removed prior to scraping, the scraper blade will mix the gravel with the leaves and generally just makes a mess of things.

Besides blowing the leaves off of the road with a high-powered backpack blower, the leaves are also blown out of the ditches, culverts and then into the woods where they hopefully get caught up in briars and brambles, thus preventing them from blowing back into the roads.

It’s important that our ditches remain relatively clear of leaves, sticks and debris so that water can run smoothly through our ditches and off of our roads. The same goes for our culverts. If leaves wash into our culverts, the culverts can clog and cause major problems.

On top of all this, it’s important to keep our roadsides clear of leaves, sticks and debris so that drivers can safely see where the ditches, culverts, and other roadside obstacles are located.

Mowing Fields at Doc’s Place and Roan High Preserve

As most of you probably know, Phase 4 of development at Amber Ranches is called Roan High Preserve. This section of the development is at the end of Nicolas Knoll Road, but can also be accessed by Amanda Avenue and the historic “Ball” or Bald Road. The lots in Phase 4 have open fields that require lots of tractor mowing with a Bush Hog (large rotary mower). These lots are privately owned and the work done on them is NOT charged to the HOA.

The lots at Roan High Preserve have been partially sold off, but some are still for sale. If you are interested in buying any of these lots, you’ll have to contact Carolina Mountain Realty http://carolinamtnrealty.com out of Burnsville, NC. The lots in Phase 4 have incredible views, but also require a good deal of maintenance compared to the other development phases at Amber Ranches.

It is important to keep the fields mowed at Roan High Preserve so that they don’t grow up into woods. After mowing with a Bush Hog, there is also a lot of weedeating to do in places where the tractor cannot get. These lots must be mowed and weedeated at least two times a years in order to keep them looking good. Typically, these fields are mowed in mid-summer and then again in the fall. They can be mowed and weedeated more than twice a year, but it’s good to do it at least twice.