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Make more money offering environmentally correct lawn care techniques.

Mar 19

Posted by Lawn Care Business in customers, environment, lawn care business, lawn care customers, lawn care pollution | No Comments

A healthy lawn and green grass

Proper mowing leads to a healthier lawn.

Mow it low and go.

Arghhh…how many customers do you have that want you to show up to their property every two weeks, mow their grass as low as your blades will allow, and go away for another two weeks until the grass is, once again, two feet high? 

While the money is often good with these types of basic lawn care customers, there is something unfulfilling about performing the lowest form of lawn care services demanded by some customers…mow it low, and go.

It is springtime right now and many of you who are just getting started with your lawn care companies are looking for any customers you can find.  I understand that you probably don’t care if you have 100 “mow it low and go” customers…you just want to be mowing grass and making money.

However, as you are acquiring customers this spring, I want to challenge each of you to attract as many customers as you can who want to care for their lawns in a proper, environmentally responsible fashion.  We’re not talking about customers who want to apply lots of fertilizers and pesticides and expect a perfectly manicured lawn each week.  We are talking about customers who will let you raise your blade to a proper height, practice integrated pest management, install water gardens & natural areas, and build good soil by leaving well-mulched clippings on the lawn.

Attracting a few customers who are keenly interested in having healthy lawns will teach you a tremendous amount about proper lawn care and they will give you tons of ideas and healthy lawn care management practices that you can spread to your other lawn care customers.

The benefits of building beautiful lawns with environmentally correct lawn care techniques are far reaching.  Yes, you will be proud of the lawns and landscaping (and make great money from those customers) but also, great lawns generate amazing referrals.  And if you acquire the right customers and bid your jobs correctly, you should be able to build a list of top-notch customers who are willing to pay you handsomely to maintain their lawns and landscapes.

Do you want to learn how to operate a successful lawn care and landscaping business? Visit our main webpage to learn more about our “Start A Lawn Care Business” guidebook and software business package.  This is a HUGE business toolkit which is perfect for anyone just starting in the business or anyone who is looking to expand a lawn care business.

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Grass Clippings: To bag or not to bag.

Mar 27

Posted by Lawn Care Business in composting, mulching | 1 Comment

by: Lawn Care Business

Grass clippings: Bag, Compost, or Mulch?

As environmentalism continues to become a dominant issue in the lawn care industry, LCOs are continually faced with running their businesses in manners not harmful to our environment.

One issue you may be challenged with is what to do with grass clippings on finely manicured lawns.

1) Bagging the grass clippings:

Bagging is the least desirable method of dealing with grass clippings.  Bagging takes tremendous effort on your part
in extra time and extra work.  The bags themselves are expensive and you must either absorb the cost of the bags or pass the expense to the customer’s invoice.  Bagged grass clippings must either be disposed of in a landfill or dumped elsewhere.  Bagging is wasteful in so many ways and there are much better options for grass clippings.

2) Composting grass clippings:

If you must remove grass from your customers’ lawns talk your customers into having a compost area on their lawns. Compost areas can be as small as 2’x2′.  A compost area can contain household wastes such as banana peels, coffee grounds, and other similar items that otherwise will be sent to the landfill.  Grass can be added to the compost.  In as little as 8 to 12 months the compost will decay into rich soil that can be used in garden beds or to level rough areas in your customers’ lawns.

3) Mulching grass clippings:

The best solution in dealing with grass clippings is to mulch the grass right back into your customers lawn with your lawn mower.  Schedule your cutting appropriately so you do not have any grass to rake, bag, or haul off.  Though some of your customers may ask you to cut it as short as possible, raising your blades and cutting less off the top of the grass during each mowing cycle will give your customers’ lawns better stands of grass.  Slightly longer grass also chokes out weeds by depriving the weeds of sunlight and water. 

If there is excess grass, you are either cutting it too short, not cutting it often enough, or cutting it wet. Proper cutting disperses fine grass clippings into the lawn.  Grass clippings have lots of nutrients which continually feed the lawn and this is beneficial to new growth as the season wears on.   Some customers may ask about thatch buildup.  Once again, proper scheduling and height adjustment of your lawn mower blades will increase the health of their lawns and reduce the need for dethatching.

Professional lawn care companies know the correct methods of reducing waste and running their companies with an environmental state-of-mind.  Most customer appreciate this attitude and will follow your lead when you tell them bagging is not necessary.

Our Lawn Care Business Program gives you many methods of running a profitable, eco-friendly lawn care company.  For more information and to purchase the program, visit us at: 
www.StartALawnCareBusiness.com

 

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