What is TruGreen?

[the point man]

Hi Guys....So many peopleon these boards mention TruGreen,
and I feel like an idiot, but I have to ask....

[lawnboy82]

TruGreen is a fert company. BIG fert company. They do other stuff too, but that is mostly what they are known for- lawn treatments.

[vipermanz]

trugreen chemlawn is a commercial lawn steroid company

[dhicks]

Vipermanz could not have said it better.

[dmk395]

I really love how everyone pokes fun at TruGreen. While some of their work is shoddy, some isnt too bad. I sure would love to be the one who cashed in on that IPO.

[Evan528]

There landscape division does nice work! There chemical division does 100% shotty work!

[kutnkru]

TruGreen ChemLawn is the largest lawn and landscape care company in the world. Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, they serve 3.5 million residential and commercial customers with lawn care, tree and shrub care, landscaping, consumer products, and International services.

Their parent company, ServiceMaster, is a fortune 500 company with 29 consecutive years of growth in revenue and profits. TruGreen ChemLawn is a partner in the ServiceMaster Quality Service Network, which consists of 8 national and international companies: Terminix, Merry Maids, American Home Shield, American Residential Services, AmeriSpec, Furniture Medic, Rescue Rooter, ServiceMaster Clean, and TruGreen ChemLawn.

Hope this answers your question. ;)
Kris

[dmk395]

Kutnkru, you work for TruGreen?

[kutnkru]

Nope. Thats what it says they are on their website. I edited it so it doesnt make me sound like part of the problem -LOL!

Kris

[MATTHEW]

They are made up of: 90% marketing sharks
10% lawn tech's
They are basically a marketing company who found an untapped market (in the 70's it was lawncare) They started out great but declined in the following years. Now they are bloodsucking vultures who would devour any plaid-suited used car salesman. They are well fortified with superfast "smart computers" that will seek-and-find any homeowner in an area who is not a host. Their first objective is to seek out the weak and wounded. Some young couple who just bought their first house and doesn't have a clue. A little old lady with alzheimers who's lawn will "surely die" if it doesn't get 7 apps of crap. And when they call... don't think your'e
going to say "not interested". You'll just get put back on the computers call list. They will call-and call- and call until you break down into convulsions and say the majic words "OK" But, it's not over yet, no no. They will continue to call. every week. offering some new app. that you need RIGHT NOW. If you say no- they call the next night. You have to buy. You must buy. There is no way out. Well, I guess there is ONE way. You have to DIE. But I don't want to DIE!!! I want to live! I wan't to live!!!!!!!Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:cry:

[Albemarle Lawn]

Well put. Matthew.

Ken

[LAWNGODFATHER]

That's what they do to me. And I tell them not to call any moe and I tell them I am also in the Biz and I will put you out of Biz. They still call and call. I have called to complain and they don't care. I have also call for all of my customres to cancel their service, if they used TG/CL

LGF:blob1:

[TLS]

I was subbing out apps to ChemLawn about 7 years a go. They seemed to do a good job for me. I only wanted 3 apps/year. 1)crab/weed/fert 2)crab/weed/fert and 3) weed/fert in Sept. They were too cheap to pass up. I had a 5 acre church that they were $150 less/app than other Major companies. They used a Cushman boom sprayer. Anyway, every now and then they would just skip back yards or wherever their hose wouldn't reach without moving truck again. I would call and they would be there the next day. Then I got to talking to a friend that started spraying, he just about matched ChemLawns prices and doesn't skip areas! Service from him is great, as he is also a cutter and understands SPRING GROWTH!!!

Overall, for the size of the company, they provided a decent service for cheap. Granted their quality/quantity of fert is unknown, but all my customers care about is DANDILIONS!

[hustlers]

tru-green is an unethical greedy and hypocritical company

I had a nice lawn in which we cancelled TGCL and I started
to do the apps looked great for a year the next year
they show and put down an application and the owner
cut the grass because it grew so fast. I came back
3 days later and it was 6 in inches long already.
She called TGCL and a tech came over and talked to
her and he said I sprayed chemicals along the
driveway, !!! that was a fert burn from blowing all his
fert that he put on the driveway back on to the lawn.
She believed him because I am only 20. I have 4 years
of schooling in turf and landscape design and probably
more educated than him.

Thanks to him I lost the whole job for mowing
after 3 days and burning the lawn both of which were his
fault. I am extremely pissed and he is going to pay for it
in the future when he is hurting for surtin from
pesticide poisoining from all those chems.

[David Gretzmier]

sheesh, lets all burn the trugreen trucks. Face it- lawns need fert, and yes, there is slow or fast release. fast is cheaper. if i didn't have to cut it, I'd go with fast, but at less amounts and more often. I do apps, and I custom blend my fert with different slow release actions. the stuff is high dollar even at the wholesale level. organic is great if you can wait the entire year or two to watch it work. some lawns need fast fert NOW, some need organic, some need iron, some have LOTS of weeds, some few. The same truck must treat them all, so they go with the mass approach to serving most of the needs. I go with slow growth and max color and density, limited herbicides, max pre-emergence. This is a discussion for the lawn applicaters side of the site. bashing trugreen does mower guys no good but let off steam. they do a good job here and could do better with slower release stuff. Dave g

[yergus]

they used to be called chem-lawn, very big in the st. louis area/ also has a lot of dissatisfied customers, i have had calls from many of their previous customers, landed most and most are satisfied with out seven step lawn treatment program

[roscioli]

I only have one chem lawn that I mow, its green all the time, not too many weeds, but very THIN. Too much N, right? The other local guy which is pretty big is called "Green Lawns Plus", and their lawns are always very nice and very healthy, in my area at least. I am probably going to sub my work out to them next year. Their only draw back seems to be price, they spread some lime the other day when I was at a customer's house, $88 for less than 20,000 sq ft.