Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Always wonder why people would consider their lawns as a beauty contest. I’m happy if my lawn looks lawnish and fits in with the rest of the street. If it’s dry I call the irrigation guys, if it’s weedy I call Massey, and the mowers do everybody’s on the street so they don’t need calling. Lawns here are fighting the natural environment a little more than in many places and there is only so much effort and money I’m ready to put into it.
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Everyone KNOWS that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence....
I mow and edge my own lawn, but I have the True Green service and like it. Found out that I would spend just as much if I did it myself by purchasing the fertilizer and weed killer and then also having to apply it myself. My neighbor has dollar weed (very thick) growing all the way to the edge of my property and then it is mostly gone before entering my property. True Green has done an excellent job on my lawn and it is one of the best looking lawns in the neighborhood. Now, if I can just get the dog walkers to keep their mutts off the lawn...... Once a dog uses your lawn for a toilet, all the other dogs are drawn to that spot to contribute their donation. It's a shame we have so many folks in the Villages that have no respect for other folk's property. Love the dogs, hate the people.
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I have used Massey for years as well because they are cheap since I've used them for so long. They go through people so fast you don"t know who you are getting from one month to the other and they are not very responsive to me at least for repairs. Last January I had a problem with my lawn and they said it was because of the freeze. Funny that not one of my neighbors had the same problem. Now almost 1 1/2 years later, with a lot of work fromm me, the lawn is almost back. DO NOT USE Massey.
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On the other hand. We still have them for pest control after ten years. |
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I remember 50 years ago before FLA was so built up that it was the norm to have crushed shell yards... unpaved sand/shell roads. Ah! Progress tho.... |
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Ever notice when you hire these dorks to maintain your lawn and you ask why it doesn't look right and they answer IT'S ALWAYS YOUR FAULT. Your watering to much. Your watering to little. Your cutting to short The suns to bright. Your to fat Your wife is having a affair. |
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LOL, when we were down recently it was interesting how many used DEANS as evident by the small yard signs in everyone's yard so they must pride themselves in that respect.
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Curious as to what an average cost of a landscaper is in the villages for: edge, mow, debris removal, monthly weeding and shrub trimming, yearly trimming of trees, fertilizing quarterly, and irrigation. Can someone ballpark it for me.
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We let the fire ants do the aeration for us. They do a great job. We water with a hose because a pipe in the sprinkler system broke. Turns out we use a lot less water with the hose anyway, so that's awesome. We have St. Augustine, mixed with assorted weeds. It looks uniformly green when we mow it (ourselves) so we really don't care what those weeds are. Our lawn stays green for longer than the neighbor's, and doesn't go completely brown in the winter; just in a few patches. We have one stubborn patch around 3 feet long by a foot wide that refuses to grow but it's at the edge of the driveway near the road so we don't really care about it.
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