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Old 05-12-2025, 02:20 PM
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Some times it’s not so much the company but the Tech for your home. 4 houses one with fertigator 3 deans.

Two years great lawn with Fertigator, then new tech. Within 4 months our close to perfect lawn was worst on the street weeds everywhere.
The day we were doing outside work, supposedly we had a lawn treatment, with a description of lawn and application. I called said nobody was here. Within an hour tech called said I am at your house where are you. Guess what 7 houses down. Admit there must have been miscommunication, but refused to credit us for 3 applications. No refund even with admission they treated the wrong house. We dropped them.

We had the same tech for other 3 houses, with Deans. Lawns have looked great more than 15 years. New house was Massey through builder. From day one the lawn looked dead, never improved for 11 months. We switched to Deans for new house, within 2 months we had 70% improvements, in the back and sides of house. Front still needs work, tech suggested topsoil ( included what to buy and how much) to help with the distress and rock hard ground.

So try the tech you feel comfortable with, don’t pay upfront, and hopefully you will have a great lawn providing the dirt underneath isn’t full of rocks, cans, bottles, plastic and roofing material. Yes there are lawns that have builders debris under 2 inches of grade.