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Old 03-12-2023, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Michael G. View Post
Our son lives not far from us and wants to start his own lawn maintenance.
He's gone through 2-3 lawn service Co's and wasn't satisfied with any and what cash in advance.

Only thing I know, Lowes and Home Depot have a lot of chemicals, granules, sprays that
I'm sure work for whatever problem exist.

I also think the biggest problem is timing, when to apply and how much.

With limited knowledge, does anyone tackle their own lawn care??
I’ve been doing my own lawn mowing, hedge trimming, edging, etc. for the past two years ever since our lawn guy died. But for weed control, fertilizing, etc. (also pest and bug control) I use Florida Pest Control. Not the cheapest (by far) but very reliable. They do what they say they’re going to do. My lawn was mostly dead s when me moved here going on three years ago now. St. Augustine Grass. But with care it came back and now is one of the nicer lawns on our block.

My only complaint about Florida Pest Control was that as good as their services are, their office people were not. The left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing, so to speak. However they’ve gone to a new office system now that seems to be a lot better.