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Pickens County

Landscaping in Six Mile, SC — our home town

We are based here. Weekly lawn care, beds, hardscape, and cleanups for Six Mile and the Eastatoe valley.

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Six Mile is where our trucks park. That is not a marketing line — it changes what we can do for you. When a storm comes through on a Tuesday night, Six Mile properties are the ones we can reach first on Wednesday morning. When an irrigation head gets clipped, we are not scheduling a trip; we are already on the road past your house. The town itself is small and the properties are varied. There are older homes on the streets off Main with mature plantings and real trees, there are newer builds toward Six Mile Mountain and along the Highway 133 stretch, and there is a steady mix of acreage as you head out toward Keowee-Toxaway and the Eastatoe valley. Our maintenance work here covers all of it: weekly mowing through the season, bed edging and mulch twice a year, pruning on a schedule rather than whenever a shrub gets out of hand, and leaf cleanup that runs well into December because of how much hardwood canopy this town has. We also do most of our install work close to home — patios, fire pits, retaining walls, planting plans, and drainage corrections. Being twenty minutes from the shop means we can run a multi-day install without hauling everything back and forth. If you live in Six Mile and you have seen our trucks, that is the point. We would rather earn work from neighbors who can watch how we treat the last job than from anyone who found us in an ad.

Local conditions

What Six Mile properties actually need

Six Mile sits at roughly 950 feet on the Pickens County side of the Keowee basin, with Six Mile Mountain to the north throwing afternoon shade over part of the town and pushing cool air down into the low ground overnight. Those low pockets frost earlier in fall and later in spring than the open ground a mile away. Soil is the familiar Piedmont red clay, but the closer you get to the creek bottoms the more you find silty loam that drains fast and dries out just as fast. We test before we amend rather than assuming. Tall fescue is the dominant turf, and the biggest single mistake we correct here is mowing it too short in June. Cut at four inches it holds through the summer; cut at two and a half it thins out and crabgrass takes the gap. Leaf volume in late fall is heavy — this town has a lot of old oaks and hickories — so we budget three or four cleanup passes rather than one. Eastatoe valley properties, a few miles north, are steeper and cooler again; that community has its own page section below.

Neighborhoods we serve

  • · Downtown Six Mile
  • · Six Mile Mountain
  • · Highway 133 corridor
  • · Keowee-Toxaway area
  • · Eastatoe valley

Landmarks & areas

  • · Six Mile Mountain
  • · Keowee-Toxaway State Park
  • · Six Mile Town Hall
  • · Lake Keowee north shore
  • · Eastatoe Creek

Questions from Six Mile homeowners

Are you actually based in Six Mile?

Yes. The shop and the equipment are here, and most of our crew lives within fifteen minutes of town. It is why Six Mile properties get first call after storms and why we can usually handle a small between-visit fix the same week.

How high should my fescue be cut in summer?

About four inches from June through August. It looks longer than people expect, but the extra blade shades the soil, holds moisture through our dry spells, and keeps crabgrass from finding bare ground. We drop the height back down in fall when the weather cools and again for the last cut before winter.

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