How Green is Thy Grass? July 27, 2007
Posted by spacemom in : Current Affairs , trackbackIn our never ending quest to find more time for US, the space family, Jay and I have been discussing hiring a lawn care company. Our lawn is about 1/2 an acre. We have another 1/2 in the woods. It takes me 2 hours to do the lawn and Jay 80 minutes. We live near the bottom of the hill, so our lawn is lush and thick and grows well with the runoff water.
I am all for a lawn care company, if it is the right one. I want an environmentally conscious one. One that will use natural fertilizers to help us maintain the lawn. One that tunes their equipment regularly to lower the emissions. One that one turn my wallet inside out.
How do I find such a lawn care company? Any thoughts?
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I had no idea you guys had a whole ACRE. Cool!
Me? I’m all for the hired help and saving time for the family. We have a housecleaning service that comes twice a month, and if we had a lawn to mow we just might get someone to do that too, depending on how long it took. I think 1.5 to 2 hours warrents a lawn care company!
No advice on a company from me obviously, since I live in a city penthouse in a different country LOL, but I’m all about anything that relieves some of the neverending burden and gives you more of a chance at quality time.
I am all for hired help, especially after spending three hours last Tuesday mowing the recently planted sod in our backyard. I knew we should have gone with astroturf. So what if it tears up the knees NFL running back?. It is not as though I’ll host exhibition football games in the backyard anytime soon.
Our next door neighborhood has a three person crew who come and mow once a week. Finding a neighborhood kid who’ll do the job for beer money shouldn’t be too hard to find.