I want to tell you about a job in Lively that, halfway through, had the homeowner texting me photos asking what the hell was going on. The lawn looked destroyed. Raked-up bare patches everywhere. Soil exposed. The nice-looking green parts they’d had before — gone. And from where they were standing, it looked like we’d … Read more
Let’s say I bought a house in Sudbury tomorrow. Hanmer, Chelmsford, Garson, wherever. And when I walk the backyard for the first time, I see what I see on a lot of properties I quote — long, patchy grass, bare spots, thatch buildup, maybe some standing water in a low corner, weeds filling in wherever … Read more
There’s a street in Sudbury I’ve been cutting for three years now. I’m not going to name it — that’s not the point — but I’ve been on it every two weeks, season after season, long enough that I know every lawn on it the way you know a face you’ve seen a hundred times. … Read more
I had a homeowner call me in late October a couple of years ago. She’d just spread an entire bag of grass seed across her backyard. The ground was cold. The nights were hitting -3 and -4 regularly. She wanted to know how long it would take to see results. I had to tell her … Read more