Lawn Mowing Richmond, VA
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Fall Leaf Clean Up and Leaf Vacuuming
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Weekly Lawn Mowing and Grass Cutting
Fertilization and Weed Control
Lawn Core Aeration and Overseeding
Fall Leaf Clean Up
Hedging and Pruning
Bed Mulching and Edging
Seasonal Flowers
Bed edging and trenching
Bed Weeding
Garden
Weeded! Hardscape Service , Weeded! Lawn Service Weeded! Lawn Service will enhance your home to stand out in your neighborhood and increase your property value. What Makes Weeded! So Great? Customer Service is paramount at Weeded! Lawn Service. We like to think our company got big by remaining small. We want you to feel like you are our only customer, and we'll create the lawn for you to prove it. So call us up, we'd love to hear from you! We've spent years perfecting our maintenance schedule of mowing, nitrogen fertizilation, application of weed suppressant, phosphorous application, aeration, and mulching. We know the exact timing of how to keep your yard looking good all year 'round. In addition, Weeded! Lawn Service provides numerous other services specific to your lawn. Weeded! is hiring! Are you or someone you know looking for full time employment or a summer job? Are you a landscaper who needs consistant full-time work throughout even the winter season? Are you dedicated and willing to learn how to do an excellent job that will teach you life skills, responsibility, and a sense of pride in your craftmanship? If so, Weeded! Lawn Service has doubled it's repertoire of satisfied customers every year for the past six years. Our company is currently interviewing talented and spirited workers to join our team of exclusive and exceptional landscape service personnel. About Us Weeded! Lawn Service provides Lawn Care throughout the year to ensure your lawn is healthy and aesthetically pleasing. When you choose a lawn care provider, you are placing the value of your home in their hands. That's why Weeded! Lawn Service has implemented the following schedule, making sure your lawn is presantly attractive, and will continue to be throughout the coming months. To find out exactly what Weeded! Lawn Service is doing to your yard during any given week of the year, view our 2007 Service Calendar. While the calendar illustrates all of our services, please not we will only be performing the services for which you have contracted us to do. In order to provide a consistent bill to our clients each month, the total charge for all services provided to your yard for a 12 month period is divided into twelve equal monthly payments. This eliminates any seasonal surprises when a lot of work is performed, such as in the Spring and Fall. Essentially, Weeded! Lawn Service is extending credit to our clients by allowing payments to be made sometimes long after services are performed. You may pay us by check each month or set up an automatic draft whereby the monthly payment is automatically taken out of your checking account or charged to your credit card each month. We do not send a bill out to you if there is no balance on your account. Many of our clients also set up an automatic payment on their own via their personal bank - a service most banks provide. Please do not hesitate to call or email us if at any time you would like to add a service to an annual agreement or have us do a one time service for you. Should there be any reason you would want to stop service to your yard, simply notify us in writing (an email or a note with your payment will suffice) thirty days before the date on which you want service to stop. At the end of that period we will reconcile your account and provide you with an accounting of the actual services performed versus the payments made by you and the balance due on your account. Our People Our Weeded! Lawn Service Personnel is a staff of experienced, certified lawn care specialists who take great pride in servicing your lawn. Customer Service, Reliability, and Dependability our are most prized attributes. David Bender, Owner Walter Cornett, Sr. Service Manager John Tyler, Sr. Operations Supervisor Eddie Brenner, Sr. Field Supervisor Jessica Yanko, Office Manager Dustin Slicklen, Jr. Field Supervisor Weedie, Corporate Logo Kevin Raley, Sr. Crewman Kristin, Senior Crewman Contact Us Company Name: Weeded! Lawn Service Phone Number: 804-672-CUTS (2887) Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 am through 5 pm. We can often be reached before and after these hours. Mailing Address: 10286 Staples Mill Rd #802 Glen Allen, VA 23060 Email: General questions: For service issues: Web Site: www.WeededLawnService.com Fax: To avoid advertising by fax, we do not publish this number. Please call if you need to fax us. To request a quote, please call or fill in the form below so we may happily speak with you. If we are unable to answer the phone at the time you call, we will return your call shortly within the business day. Your Full Name: Daytime Phone: Evening Phone: Email Adddress: Best Time to Call: Regularly Scheduled Visits From the middle of March through the First Friday of December the Weeded! Lawn Service maintenance crew will be at your home taking care of your regular service: mowing the grass and string trimming as needed, blowing walkways, driveways, and other hard surfaces clean, and picking up minor yard debris. Our Regularly Scheduled Service is like a day at the salon for your grass: * Visits take place during a regularly scheduled window of time each week. We may service your yard earlier or later in the week based on the local weather condition. * Weeded! only uses walk-behind lawn mowers on residential properties. We will not use big ride-on mowers on your lawn. * We cut your lawn at the correct height for the season and weather, with blades sharpened twice weekly. Correct cutting height allows your grass to be as healthy and green as possible throughout the year, and assists in minimizing weed growth. * When possible, alternating mowing directions or patterns are performed from week to week creating visually appealing designs. * Trimming will keep the grass edges razor sharp, at the beds, walkways, and driveways. * Accumulated debris on walkways, decks, driveways, and the street is blown clean. * A minimal amount of natural debris, such as sticks, are removed from grass areas (larger amounts of debris may be removed for an additional charge). * Leaf clean up, fall leaves, fall leaf clean up, leaf vacuuming and leaf pick up are available. Please assure that your yard remains free of excessive obstacles to mowing such as hoses and toys, and that pets and children are kept inside during your expected mowing times. Also please assure that any wires, drains, or other items in the yard have been properly installed and are continually maintained. We cannot take responsibility for existing items not installed properly or to code, such as exposed or shallow wire or items not functioning properly such as irrigation heads which fail to retract. Premium Scheduled Visits Your yard will look great each week after our Regularly Scheduled Visit. However, we understand you may be looking for extra detailing not covered by our standard visit service. We can design a custom service menu which we will perform at your property during each time we Visit. This Premium Scheduled Visit may include such services as removing leaves from beds, cleaning up bigger sticks and debris from the yard, wiping down patio furniture, cutting rose buds, and anything else you can imagine. If you spend a lot of time in your yard, entertain often, or just want to receive top-of-the-line service, let us create a customized list of additional services exclusively for your property. Fall Leaf Cleanup If there is one challenge in your yard, it's cleaning up fall leaves, but Weeded! Lawn Service has it figured out. Each week from the beginning of November to the first friday of December, leaves on driveways, walkways, decks, and in the grass areas will be picked up and removed during our Regularly Scheduled visits. If you have a designated area for leaf storage, we will place the leaves there, otherwise we will remove the leaves from your property. We return in December to perform a more throrugh cleanup, during which time we will again remove leaves from the grass and hard surfaces, as well as remove leaves from beds easily accessable to our crew. This late December cleanup is a more detailed removal of leaves from around your property, though not a complete and total cleanup of every leaf on your property. As leaves during this time continue to fall through the end of the year, we make our final leaf cleanup in January. At this time, we completely remove every leaf we can reasonably get to on your property. Every season we impress our clients with this final clean-up thanks to the detail and efficiency with which we work. If you would like pine needle cleanup to be included with regular Fall Leaf Cleaning, be sure to make this request it is not included in the cost of the service. Our clean-up schedule will keep your lawn looking spectacular throughout the falling leaf season. Mulching Mulching your beds serves a number of purposes. Aesthetically, your yard will look great with a fresh coat of mulch in the beds. For your plants, mulch helps maintain a more consistent soil temperature, aids in the retention of water for plants, suppresses some weeds, and adds nutrients into the beds as the mulch breaks down over the years. For existing beds, we generally apply a one inch thick layer of mulch. Beds with fewer plants receive lighter applications of mulch, while beds dense with flowers and shrubs get a thicker layer. Depending on the time of year, if there are many perennials and annuals in the beds, there may be some incidental damage to some plants. We take great care to minimize any harm to plants during all of our work and do our best to weigh the importance of getting the mulch installed with the proper care of your landscape. We use double-shredded hardwood from only premium mulch suppliers, which is naturally dark brown. Installation of other colors of mulch or mulch which is dyed a darker color is available for an additional fee. Installation of other types of mulches may also be available. Please inquire if you are interested in any of these services. It is customary to mulch at the beginning of the year. Fall mulching service is also available for those who want to give their yard that extra aestetic for the holidays for those who inquire. Beginning of year mulching takes place starting in February. End of year mulching may take place anytime after August. We schedule our mulching before spring annuals are installed or perennials come up. If you require mulching after these events occur there may be a rate increase reflective of the additional time required to perform this meticulous work. Bed Trenching Each bed is given a defined trench at the grass line before mulching. We use the Sidewinder trenching machine to give each bed a crisp, deep line for highlighting. Trenching is recommended annually as the quality of the trench will naturally diminish throughout the year. The utility marking service may be contacted to mark underground utility lines. Any underground lines should be buried six inches deep or more, however installers often place communication lines too shallow. Utility marking services will not mark lines installed after the house has been built such as electric dog fencing. IF THESE LINES ARE PRESENT WE MUST BE MADE CLEARLY AWARE IN WRITING. We may not trench some areas if we feel that doing so will disturb any underground lines. Please advise us immediately if these lines have been disturbed so that the appropriate utility may be contacted for repair. We take no responsibility for any lines installed less than three inches below ground or not to installed to code. In order to avoid sprinkler heads in the bed lines, please mark these items before trenching is to take place.. We can provide you with flags if necessary. If the irrigation system is not on, please instruct us not to trench or provide us the locations of sprinkler heads. Roots large and small may be exposed in some areas after trenching. This is normal and should not cause damage to the plant or tree. Irrigation lines, if installed properly by the original contractor, should be buried at least 6 inches deep. We take no responsibility for irrigation lines hit during trenching, nor lines not marked by miss utility or put in after the original construction of the house as we have no way of knowing about these obstacles. It is imperative that weeded lawn service be contacted immediately regarding any damages that may have occurred as a result of work performed. Bed Weeding Each week from April to November (the prime growing season for bed weeds), beds will be maintained to minimize weed growth. This service seems to be the favorite of our clients who choose it because it keeps them from doing the dirty work in the garden on the weekend. We may use chemicals to assist us in suppressing weeds. Please make us aware if hand weeding is preferred so that we can happily adjust our work accordingly and provide you a rate for that service. MARCH - APRIL: Broadleaf weed spray. For the weeds that do appear and are not suppressed by pre-emergent applications, we spray a liquid herbicide that sticks to the leaf of the weed so that it gets absorbed into the plant. This herbicide then kills the weed over a period of ten to fourteen days. In that time you will see it yellow out and then begin to wither away. Chemical Applications No lawn will reach its potential without proper nutrition and protection against weeds. Based on current research and our own experience over the years, fertilization and weed control products will be applied to your lawn in order to get the most green and healthy grass with a minimum of weeds. Will you have weeds in your grass with our service? Most likely, yes. There is not a practical, cost - effective way to avoid having any weeds at all. Also, how many weeds you end up with is also dependent on the condition of your grass when we start, the weather, existing soil conditions and irrigation. Our program does, however, work to keep weeds from coming up and addresses them once they do. * January: Heavy Nitrogen Fertilization. more info * February: Pre-emergent Weed Suppression. more info * March: Broadleaf Weed Spray. more info * April - May: Pre-emergent and Broadleaf spray. more info * June - July: No Chemicals. more info * August: Lime Application. more info * September: High phosporous fertilizer. more info * October - November: High Nitrogen Fertilizer. more info * December: No Chemicals. more info Aeration & Overseeding Aeration and Overseeding provides the biggest impact to the health of your lawn. Aeration and Overseeding rejuvenates the grass area by mechanically conditioning the soil resulting in new grass to fill in areas of normal wear and aging in the lawn. In the aeration process, we use a machine to remove cores of dirt from the soil and leave those cores on the surface of the ground. This reduces soil compaction, and grass roots extend further underground where the grass plant seeks out and absorbs more nutrients and water, yielding a healthier turf. The holes in the ground also allow the nutrients we spread to penetrate the ground, thus the roots can take maximum advantage our chemical applications. In conjunction with aeration, the grass area is overseeded with appropriate seed for your yard. We use a professional grade drop spreader which meters out the seed in just the right quantity for your grass conditions. Once the seed is dropped, it makes its way down into the cores pulled out of the ground where it will germinate, take root, and begin to grow in as part of your newly revitalized yard. The Aeration and Overseeding process takes time because we are very thorough – we aerate the entire lawn area at least twice, use a hand tiller in particularly bare areas, and pay meticulous attention to the seed application. After Weeded! Lawn Service Aerates and Overseeds your lawn, you must water your yard in short durations (5-10 minutes) once or twice daily for 10-14 days. After that, the grass should be watered normally (15-20 minutes) once every two days for 14 days. Our regular maintenance crews will not mow your yard for the first two to three weeks after seeding in order to give the new grass a chance to take root and grow mature enough such that mowing will not cause irreparable damage to the new grass. When will your grass begin to grow? That is based on a lot of factors, but under ideal conditions germination will take place in two to three weeks, at which time grass shoots will begin to appear. Under ideal weather conditions, a full bed of grass should appear in 60-90 days. If this process is interrupted by cold weather or other less than ideal weather conditions, growth will pick up as soon as the weather becomes warm in the spring. In general, growing great grass starts with a 5-6 month process from seeding to thick turf, followed by regular chemical applications to maintain the turf in its best condition. Dry weather extends the time grass needs to germinate and may affect the amount of grass seed which germinates. Excessive rain that causes washouts or pooling of seed will also affect the outcome of the process. While we always stay aware of the weather conditions, we take no responsibility for the weather’s effect on our work. Before aeration, we will provide you with flags to mark your irrigation heads so we can avoid hitting and potentially damaging them with our aerator. If you require assistance in marking your sprinkler heads, we are able to make a service call for a charge. We cannot take responsibility for damage to unmarked heads nor underground items damaged by the aerator. Also, please be aware that aeration digs out cores three inches high from the ground. Wires, pipes and irrigation systems that were not originally installed to code may be damaged if hit by a aerator tine. The aeration and overseeding process will add to the overall health and density of your grass. This process does not, however, address specific conditions in the soil that are preventing germination such as contaminants in the soil, rocky conditions, areas of high root density, or other conditions that are out of our control. Who are our competitors? How about: Virginia Green Lawn Care Southern Lawn Care Richond Lawn Care Cardinal Lawn Care Everything Green Stagreen Scotts Trugreen StaGreen Green Up Tuckahoe Landscaping Styer Hedging & Pruning Maintaining plant health and shape requires regular hedging and pruning. Most plants left to grow on their own around your house will eventually outgrow their intended space looking unnatural in the confines of your yard. By caring for your plants properly, plant-life in your yard is extended and your landscape will showcase as you originally intended. Our Annual Hedging and Pruning includes between two and three scheduled visits to care for your plants. The exact number of visits is determined by the number of plants in your yard. Our Winter Hedging applies to decorative grasses such as liriope and pampas grass and decorative trees such as crape myrtles. Green shrubs such as hollies may be touched up at this time, as well as barberries and the like. Spring Hedging service occurs after shrubs have completed their blooming and spring growth cycle. Hedge rows and bushes are shaped and all the shrubs are checked for needed pruning. Azaleas, Nandinas, and the like are carefully pruned by hand to maintain a natural and full look. Fall Hedging is generally a touch up of slower growing plants and a trimming of more aggressive shrubs and those with leaders that have grown out of place. Perennials out of bloom will be cut back as needed. Hedging and pruning rates include all vegitation up to 12 feet tall. Please request a separate quote for any hedging and pruning for plants taller than 12 feet. Each plant has its own pruning time and technique required to best care for its distinct growth and health. With proper scheduling and care, your shrubs and plants will maintain their peak beauty throughout the year. Seasonal Flower Installation If there is one enhancement to regular service which will add to the beauty and enjoyment of your landscape it is adding seasonal flowers to your beds. Properly installed seasonal color will give stunning and impressive results. We install seasonal flowers twice per year – at the end of the spring bloom season and once in the fall. We include a variety of flowers such as pansies, snapdragons, salvia, petunias, impatience, and more. The exact plants to be used are decided by our staff on a season by season basis. Our seasonal installation process involves removing existing seasonal plants at the end of their season, adding fresh soil and soil amendments, tilling the soil mechanically, and installing the selected plant material. This process provides the ideal soil and nutrient conditions for the plants. It will allow the plant roots to make their way deep into the soil where they will draw water and nutrients. This in turn will allow the plants to grow to their potential in size and blooms, giving your landscape the maximum visual impact. Additional mulch is not added to the surface with regular seasonal color installation because the flowers will end up covering the entire planting surface. Please be sure to request our additional mulch service if interested. In addition to our regular spring and fall annuals, fall bulb plantings are also available. Please be sure to request information about this service if you are interested. Complete Yard Refurbishment For yards that are nearly 100% weeds, or if your turf area is overrun with Bermuda grass or other weedy grasses, we offer a complete refurbishment option. In the hot months of June and July, all weeds and unwanted grass will be killed in two rounds. That will be followed in August or September with two rounds of aeration and overseeding to establish your new lawn. You may choose sod installation for an additional fee if that option is preferred. Sometimes it may be necessary to mechanically remove or alter the top layer of plants and soil. This can be done for an additional fee. Proper fertilization and liming will ensure that the soil conditions are right for establishing brand new grass growth. Be sure to arrange for regular chemical applications after new grass is established to keep it growing properly. Your lawn will look “under construction” for a few months, but come next spring you will have a plush sea of grass for seasons thereafter with proper regular chemical treatments. Additional Services Beyond our basic services, we can also perform or arrange the following: # Tree removal # Retaining walls # Power washing # Stump grinding # Paver patios # And more... # Flower bed creation # Landscape design & installation