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I'm tired of fighting the weeds, crabgrass, etc and want to hire a company to get my lawn to just be green grass.
Any recommendations?
Chemlawn, etc...
Ideally I'd find a service that can do it all including mowing, trimming and weed control. Does this exist?
My experience with the big name companies is not good. They talk a good game but cheat you by not providing the service they bill you for. I currently use a young man that has his own lawn service company. This has been much better and you know specifically who to complain to if you have a problem.
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Originally Posted by bnordin
I'm trying Scotts out. I hope the walk the walk they talk.
We've had Scott's for the last couple of years. They've been good, but not fantastic.
Aren't you renting? I wouldn't want to put my money into someone else's lawn. Just mow and water. Good luck with Scott's.
Never had good luck with those services. Their fertilizers never really did anything. I just got a spreader and some fertilizer and got much better results. Just follow the directions properly.
I use TrueGreen/Chemlawn. It took a good year of treatment for the lawn to look perfect. I supplimented their regimen with spot weed killer (the kind that doesn't kill grass) and that helped. I had a LOT of weeds in the back yard.
I've got no complaints with TrueGreen. They seem to know their stuff. They will occasionally try to upsell you but I just stick to the basic seasonal treatments and it's worked out fine.
My dad uses Scott's and has no complaints either.
If I were to do it all over again I'd go to one of my neighbors whose lawns looked really good and ask them who they use. You'd be pretty much guaranteed your yard would look just like theirs with the same treatments since the soil makeup, etc, would be pretty much identical.
We use a separate local lawn service for mowing, bed clean-up, etc. Some of these guys will do treatments as well. But for some reason I just feel more comfortable with the big, established companies for that.
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Originally Posted by Miatamoto
+1 I have fired 5-6 of these lawn service companies. One of them made a giant "Z" in the grass with their fertilizer.
Wasn't Zorro's Landscaping, was it?Quote:
Originally Posted by motorollow
+1 and don't forget what Neal Sperry says...Fertilize or weed kill. Don't try to do both at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto
+2! Don't waste your $$$ on lawn service. Just spend a little and get the Scott slow release fertilizer. If you have a lot of crabgrass and other misc. weeds and your lawn is bermuda, I highly recommend you use the MSMA crabgrass killer. Wait till the lawn is established and in the 80's all the time. Apply it once or twice, it will kill all your weed. Your bermuda will turn yellow, but will bounce back in week or so. The name of the game is regular watering and mowing. If you don't like watering and mowing, you than better off find a full service lawn care service to do the whole thing for you and not just fertilize/weed control.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto