3 Good Reasons to Leave Lawn Care to the Pros

Have you ever given thought to someone else caring for your yard? Well, here’s a good reason or two for allowing the pros to do your lawn care.

First, one of the most valuable possessions you’ve got is time. I’d rather be playing golf or watching a baseball game, wouldn’t you? Do you think you’d forget about going on an exciting fishing trip? You’d probably spend a whole Saturday afternoon doing yard work. And, you’d likely have to work many weekends in the summer. Why not spend a little extra money instead of spending time? Lawn care business professionals do very good work; just give them a chance.

Next, you’d probably like to know how good your fertilizer is. Lawn care professionals can always get better quality fertilizer. You’d probably ask yourself, why does this really matter? Sure, I can get my own lawn care products for less and I’ll probably save a buck or two.
Let me ask you this. Would you rather enjoy eating hamburger or a nice steak? I’d say you’re probably a person who works hard and deserves the best. You’d agree that your home is absolutely amazing, right? And your lawn is the exterior of your home that everyone sees, of course.
I’d like to say two important words about this: curb appeal, curb appeal, and curb appeal! You’ve already seen your neighbor’s yard down the street. I’d bet his lawn looks as beautiful as a resort in the tropics. Now you’re going to have an awesome looking lawn too!

Finally, do you know enough about lawn care? What happens if you run into troubles out there on your lawn? Are you going to call that 1-800 number on that bag a bargain fertilizer? You’d never imagine all that can go wrong with your lawn. There’s a long list of things like: water problems, insect worries, grass that won’t grow, just to name a few. Once these things happen, you’ve got to bring in the lawn professionals. They’ll take care of everything for you. This way, you can enjoy a sunny spring, summer and fall season. So, kick back, sit on your deck with ice cold lemonade and let a lawn care company make your yard amazing!

So how many lawns should your lawn care business be able to cut in a day?
Well, it’s going to vary according to the size of each lawn, how many people you are using to mow, and how long you spend driving to each property, but I can give you a rundown of what we can do.

On the average we can easily service 10 to 12 lawns in a day with a two-man crew (when I say “service” I’m talking about mowing, trimming, edging, and blow off grass clippings).
For an average half-acre to three-quarter-acre property with mowing, trimming and edging and stuff, you should be able to do 10 to 12, maybe 14, a day, on a good day using a two man crew.
I prefer to use a two man mowing crew because for the most part, for doing average lawns, I just think it’s the most time effective.

If you’re not getting that many, you may want to look at how your route is spaced out.
If you have properties all over town, then you’re obviously gonna be able to do less properties. You want to try to consolidate and have as many properties in a community as you can.
Ideally you want to get as many lawns, as close together as you can. We’ve even had one garden home community where we unload once and work there all day. You don’t make any money loading, unloading mowers and equipment or driving around.
You’re only making money while you are cutting grass!

Check out this video. This is flippin unbelievable.
Craig is the best I’ve ever seen at getting websites to the top of Google.

Not only can he do this, he can even show you how to do it.

Stay tuned. He is sending me more videos I’ll post in the next couple of days….

Patrick

These are the kind of things that go thru my mind while I’m working. And yes I know that watering turf is not really necessary now during the winter, but I believe that now is the time to decide on how to handle these things. How much water should I give my lawn weekly? All things considered, an average lawn will generally need from 1 to 1.5 inches of water a week under normal conditions, now this can come from irrigation or rain or a combination of both, your lawn won’t care. My other thought was, when is the best time to irrigate? In some circles this question can cause an argument. In my experience, it seems that early in the morning is the best time to water. If you water at night, the turf will stay wet for a long time, and this can invite disease to invade your lawn turf, so avoid this if possible. If you water during the day, the turf will dry quickly, but you lose most of your water thru evaporation, so overall early morning watering seems to work the best.
Your thoughts or comments are welcome..

We’ve been working on these for a while as we’ve had time and finally got two of them done.
You can get our How-To install an irrigation system DVD and our How-To Install a low voltage lighting DVD both for only $47. We will be selling them for $27 each.

You can click here to find out more or click on the picture below….

In addition to these two DVD’s, we have 4 more about to be ready.
1. Estimating for Lawn Care Businesses. This covers how to estimate jobs, etc.
2. How To Set up and Run a Fertilization Business. Covers all aspects of starting and running a fertilization division for your lawn care business.
3. Retaining Walls
4. Installing pavers. This may be 2 DVD’s. We have so much footage shot it may nto fit on one DVD!

I try to write articles based on the questions I get via email and on the phone. I had receved several about doing sod jobs and a couple about weeds. Particuraly Dandelions and Crabgrass.
Here’s the latest articels I’ve posted:

Dandelions- How to control

Getting Rid of Crabgrass

Measuring and Installing Sod

Pricing a Sod Job

Different Types of Sod

I’m working on some other articles to answer questions I received in the past few weeks. I’ll post them over the next day or so…

Patrikc

I’ve been working hard to finish up our first 4 lawn care / landscaping DVD’s. We are just about done.

They are:
1. Landscaping basics (This DVD covers us doing planning with the software we use to do before and after shots, the basic install, etc)

2. Low Voltage Landscape Lighting. (This DVD covers us doing an install, goes over tips, tricks, etc)

3. Irrigation Installation (This DVD Covers us doing an install of an irrigation system at a new house. Includes planning, layout, installation, testing, etc)

4. Pavers (This DVD Covers us doing an install at a new construction job site from start to finish)

I’ll start posting samples of each over the next few days. Stay Tuned!
All the DVD’s are 1 to 1 1/2 hours long and are really cool (if I do say so myself)

Thanks!

A logo can really help your lawn care or landscaping business stand out from the competition.
Your logo can be serious looking, a cartoon style, or even a simple single color logo. It really doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you have one!

With all the competition out there, you don’t have an excusel not to be as professional looking as you can be.
Get out there and get your lawn business a professional logo today!

Here’s a fun video I made about logos.

I get asked quite a bit about buying or selling a lawn care business (or how to buy or sell accounts)
I’ve made a short video sharing some thoughts on this.

Thanks!