Lawn Mowing in Carrollton, GA

This is the bulk of what I do. Most of my customers are on a recurring schedule through the growing season, which around here runs long — Bermuda and zoysia in west Georgia will keep pushing from about March into October, and fescue lawns want attention on either end of the summer when they are actually growing.

What a visit actually looks like

That is the order I work in, and the order matters more than people expect:

1. Edging and weedeating first. The corners, the fence line, around the mailbox post and the AC unit, and every spot the mower deck physically cannot reach. Doing this before the mow means the clippings it throws get picked up on the pass that follows, instead of being left sitting on a lawn I have already cut.
2. Then the mow, striped up. I run a Scag ride XL stand-on zero-turn — a commercial stand-on rather than a homeowner rider. It is quick across open ground and turns tight around trees and beds without tearing the turf the way a clumsy three-point turn does. Cut to the height your grass actually needs, not one height for every yard on the route.
3. Then blowing off the hard surfaces.Driveway, walks and porches. Onto the lawn — not into your beds and not into the street. This is the step that gets skipped when somebody is being paid by how many yards they can get through in a day, and it is the difference between a yard that has been mowed and one that has been looked after.

The through-line in all of it is missing nothing. The mowing is the easy part; the corners are where the job is won or lost.

Height, and why I will not scalp your yard

A lot of people ask for it cut as low as it will go, thinking it buys another week before the next visit. In a Georgia July it does the opposite. Cutting too low burns the crown, opens the canopy so the sun bakes the soil, and hands the bare spots straight to crabgrass and nutsedge.

I would rather come more often and take less off. Taking roughly a third of the blade at a time is the sane way to do it, and the lawn holds colour through the hot part of the year instead of going straw-brown in patches. If you want it shorter than I think is good for it, tell me and I will do it — I will just say my piece first.

Recurring beats one-off

I take one-time cuts, but I will be straight with you: an overgrown yard that has not been touched in six weeks is a different job than a lawn on a schedule, and it is harder on both of us. Grass that tall has to come down in stages, it clumps, and it usually needs a cleanup pass afterward. If it has gotten away from you, look atyard cleanup first, then we can put it on a normal rotation from there.

Being on the route also means I get to know the property — where the sprinkler heads are, which corner holds water after a storm, where the dog gate is. That is worth more over a season than any one visit.

Scheduling

Call and we will talk about what the yard needs and how often. Every property is different — lot size, how much shade it has, whether it is irrigated — so I would rather look at it and give you a real answer than quote you a number over the internet that I would have to change once I saw it.