Landscapers hope for wet spring

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - After unseasonably dry weather last year, many people are hoping their plants and lawns won't see another dry season.

Homeowners are wary of investing in their yards only to have it dry up if drought conditions continue this year, and landscapers are hoping that a wet spring will pick up business after a decrease in revenue throughout the mild winter.

However, people are preparing for whatever Mother Nature may bring. Many turned to the Home and Garden show to ask the experts.

"Just keeping an eye on the different kinds of treatment for the spring that will help for the summer, not knowing what the conditions will be, trying to ask as many questions as possible," said Cisco Ortiz, a homeowner.

Landscapers gave homeowners a few options of how to prepare their lawns for the upcoming seasons.

"That is a worry because it has happened for a few years now, and  especially last summer having a couple year's at least with no precipitation, so that is on everybody's mind, so one thing that can take care of it at least when it comes to yard maintenance is an irrigation system," said William Dawson, the founder of Triscape Landscaping.

The irrigation system, an underground watering system, would keep homeowners from having to worry about sprinklers, but, if that isn't in a homeowner's budget this year,  he should make sure to give his yard a good fertilizing at the beginning of spring.