Your own yard

[Hardy Enterprises]

I was wondering what everybodies own yard looks like. Is it the best in the neighborhood using it as an image for your company. Or are you so busy cutting everybody else yard that yours looks like a jungle. I personally have my yard on a weekly schedule with the rest of my accounts.<p>Jay

[sunrise]

weekly mowing, fert and weed control, 3 plantings a year and watered daily when needed.

[EDL]

weekly mowing, fertilizer program, the lawn looks good, but the dog has demolished any perennial garden or shrub across the wood line and clear cut most of the back woods.

[eagle lawn services]

I live out on 12 acres back in the woods. I have no lawn and no one can see that I have no lawn. We do however have some acreage to mow a few times a year, usually I have an employee do that as it is a dusty, boring job. I am thankful that when I get home at the end of the day I don't have my own lawn to cut. What is it they say- The cobbler's son is always barefoot.

[DMC300]

I OWN A LAWN CARE CO. AND I AM ALSO A JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER.MY HOUSE IS FALLING APART AND MY LAWN LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING FROM &quot;YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK IF...&quot; WE NEED MORE HOURS IN A DAY!<p>----------<br>DON<br>LIANNES' MOWING

[yardsmith]

like the saying- the plumbers house is full of leaks!<br>My wife usually ends up doing our yard because I'm busy with the route, but I do the fert. & landscaping; we both do the flowers, etc.<br>We try to have the nicest lawn on the block, which isn't too hard cause there's alot of rentals on my street.<p>----------<br>Smitty ô¿ô<br>

[gusbuster]

We regularly cut our own lawns. The flowerbeds, well that’s a different story. Only time they get worked on is when we are expecting company. None of my clients ever come to my house.<br>Jean<br><p>----------<br>J-LC Landscaping & Maintenance Gardening<br>C-27 Ca Contr# 770044

[bw]

mine looks great, i hired one of my competitors to take care of it...ha ha

[geogunn]

two years ago I came in and round-upped the whole thing. neighbors suspecting that I was nuts shook hands. before It was over I tilled the whole thing, came in with fert. and lime ammendments, and about a boxcar load of lesco transition blend turf fescue.<p>the grass came but summer heat was harsh. last fall, all of it came back, but I overseeded and now I have reaped the rewards. at this point, beautiful grass...with quite a few weeds. next in the battle...getting my arm ready to pump the weed sprayer.<p>GEO

[southside]

Mow my own lawn? You gotta be kidding?<br>It gets so long sometimes that I have to put<br>the tractor/slasher (bush hog) over it.I have<br>2 Dobermans and when its hard to see them in<br>the yard I start thinking about mowing it.<br>I cut around 200 acres a week on average and<br>the last thing I want to do is mow the lawn<br>at home.

[Eric ELM]

I have a small &lt;a href=&quot;http://elms.bizland.com/backyard.jpg&quot;&gt;Lawn&lt;/a&gt; and can cut it with a 21&quot; mower in about a minute, so we mow it 3 times a week when it's growing fast. We have mostly flowers which we find relaxing to look at after a hard days work. I'm glad it's small after cutting all day and it will be easy to take care of when we retire. I put in an automatic sprinkler system to water the lawn and flowers during dry times, so it is easy to care for. We also have a lot of antique tools on display. The flower pictures on my Website are from our back yard. We relax after a hard day on the back deck under the Norwegian Maple tree. Our neighbors enjoy coming over and hanging out with us there too.<p>----------<br>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.townserver.com/elm/&quot;&gt;Eric@ELM&lt;/a&gt;<p><br>

[Richard Martin]

My lawn is a mix of Burmuda and fescue. It gets cut at least once weekly because it does act as an advertisment for me. It is decently landscaped with raised planter beds containing 3 varieties of Nandina, Dwarf Alberta Spruces, flowers of the season and a water statue (a small Japanese lady). I leave the mowers on the trailer all of the time unless it's raining. All of this together acts as excellant free advertising since I have had people stop &quot;out of the blue&quot; and ask if I'd be interested in servicing their yards. Cha-Ching!

[thelawnguy]

Our lawn was always the neighborhood showpiece. Last September we moved to a new neighborhood, the house we bought was being rented to a 15-year old and her crackhead friends while the owners were going thru a foreclosure. Needless to say I spent all winter clearing a 1/2 acre lot which, except for the spot where the beer kegs and picnic table were, hadnt been mowed for at least twenty years. So now I have six cords of firewood and 20,000 square feet of bare earth awaiting warmer weather so grass will grow. We will see how this season transforms the yard.<p>Bill

[Matt]

Ive heard it once from my first boss's wifes mouth as &quot;you know how the painters house is never painted, well i guess the landscapers house is never landscaped&quot; Boy was she right, he was just my neighbor at first and instead of having his crew mow, he let me. eventually i started working for him for real. As for my own lawn... its pitiful but this year i have promised myself that it was going to be better(aerating next saturday, and way ahead on the thatching... I actually did it!)

[MOW ED]

Its last on my list, hopefully in a few years I'll have some apprentices that can drive a mower, until then they will keep playing with jumpropes and Barbies on the lawn.

[sue]

We have a very nice yard, i am not bragging. i am glad i can maintain it like all of our customers. plus it does help advertise. i have a little something i would like to share. there is yards around that look like junk yards. no offense towards anyone, but the town i live in they started a spring and summer fling called; YARD OF THE WEEK! everyone trys real hard to have the nicest yard in town. you have several pictures of your yard taken and also yourself and then it is put in the paper and a sign in your yard that posts yard of the week. i think it is a real good idea. everyone cleans their yards, get's rid of all the trash and battles for who will win yard of the week. we won last year, and we had alot of calls for mowing service. and received alot more jobs. thanks all of you i really enjoy this forum.

[jnjnlc]

My yard looks better this year than ever. I change my seed last year and changed to Lebanon Fertilizer this year. It is growing like a bandit. I mow my neighbors yard across the street so I do mine at the same time. I can do both by myself in about 40 minutes. My neighbor always gives me a hard time when I mow. I use my ZTR on my yard and mow it in about seven minutes. Last time I mowed I got done and he told me I had to be tired from all of that work. Just the perks of having the lawncare company.<p><p>----------<br>Jeff<br>

[Dingo]

My yard sucks take a look at my post &quot;the right grass for the right yard&quot; and tell me what ya think. thanks<br>Dingo

[HOMER]

I have over an acre now to maintain and I intend to keep it up better than I did my last one. It looks great now with only a few ant mounds, a little thin in places and weedy in others but I just got here and found I can mow it with my 50&quot; chopper in 30 minutes. I plan to aerate it when I line up another job so the customer can pay the rent on the machine! Its centipede so it should be a snap to maintain it as long as it doesn't get too dry. I already trimmed the shrubs and edged the driveway and walkway and just doing that has helped the appearance. Never been much good at landscapeing but may try it as soon as all the other dust settles.<p>Homer

[miquel]

My yard looks great. Perhaps the best looking lawn in the neighbourhood. I cut weekly and do all the other applications. My garden is on the up and up.

[WAYNE]

It's hell owning a lawn care business and having the worst looking lawn on the block !!!