Preparing your garden for winter is the best way to keep Santa's elves from setting up a shantytown in the vegetable patch. Stave off unsettling seasonal invasions with today's Groupon for landscape services from Griffin Company. Choose from two options:

• $20 for sprinkler winterization (a $40 value)
• $60 for a four-hour yard or garden cleanup (a $120 value)

Griffin Company is a locally owned-and-operated operation that specializes in landscape services for the mindful landowner. A four-hour yard or garden cleanup may include fertilization of needy soil, control of unruly weed growth, and an autumnal brush-down for ridding yards of leafy debris. Alternately, a sprinkler winterization ensures that sprinkler systems won't freeze or lurch to life during long winter nights, spewing the ground with extra snow, which invariably spurs on the growth of parasitic ice sculptures. Whatever the needs, troubles, or tribulations of your landscape, Griffin Company's experienced specialists will put down their healing green thumbs to remedy the situation.