Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, MARK FALCO. He is a lawn care expert, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Basic Lawn Care – Mowing, Scarifiers, Aeration, and Watering Tips
By Mark Falco

The arrival of summer heralds a time of increased wear and tear for the average garden lawn. Children’s yard games, barbecue parties, outdoor sports and generally more activity in the garden means your lawn is set to come in for something of a beating and without a little TLC is likely to start showing more than a little worse for wear. Stomp all over any living thing and it doesn’t respond too kindly but with a little help, your lawn can remain looking great all through summer and beyond!

Fertiziler

For a lusher, healthier, faster-growing lawn you can’t beat a bit of fertilizer. Test your soil type and choose a fertilizer to compliment this for best results. Most lawns will benefit from around three to four fertilizer applications through the year, with the first around a month before the start of the growinf season to give your grass a kickstart and then up to three more with approximately a two month gap in between applications can give good results. Read the rest of this entry »

Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, PATRICK CASH. He is an expert on lawn care service businesses, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Using Door Hangers to Promote Your Lawn Care Service Business
By Patrick Cash

We have tried just about every way you can imagine to sell our lawn care services. One of the best, and not too expensive, was to use door hangers.
Not just any old door hangers but full color, nice looking door hangers with a place to leave a price quote for our services.

Even if a competing lawn care business does use door hangers they are most likely blah and not too interesting.

After I thought about this for a while, I decided to make some advertising materials based on the idea of “more free time” for our customers. Read the rest of this entry »