Pollution-Free Lawn and Garden Care.
We employ traditional gardening techniques to produce beautiful, bio-diverse lawns and gardens in the Curran Hall Community.
Services
About our Lawn Care
Prices start from $35/week for detached homes, $30/week for townhouses.
We don’t use gas or electric powered equipment for regular lawn maintenance. We love a beautiful lawn, we just know that there is a more sustainable way to get there!
We never use leaf blowers on lawns or in gardens – not only do they produce unnecessary noise pollution, but they are harmful for the health of our local ecosystems.
We never use string trimmers/ whipper snippers. Although they make the job of cleaning up edges almost effortless, they work by shredding microplastics into our environment.
We don’t use herbicides. Most weeds can be removed by hand, allowing for native ground covers to find a home within your lawn, making it both more biodiverse and resilient.
We never use synthetic fertilizers which can both harm the microbiome of your soil and pollute our waterways. We focus instead on promoting healthy soils as a way to produce healthy lawns and gardens.
Crooked Creek. One of the tributaries that run through Curran Hall Community and where all of the run-off fertilizers, herbicides and other pollutants enter the water cycle.
What to expect from us.
A dependable and professional service, of course! We arrive at your home with a bicycle-powered trailer of tools to get your lawn looking beautiful. A manual reel mower takes the place of a gas powered mower. To keep your edges sharp and tidy we use a variety of tools, but primarily long-handled shears. Finally, we use a broom to clean-up the hardscaping when we’re done. Yes, we are VERY quiet!
Other services include: weeding, hedge trimming, spring/fall cleanups, gardening, etc.
Tips for a More Sustainable Lawn
- Keep your grass tall – the taller the grass, the deeper the roots. This allows your grass to access water and nutrients deeper in the soil and results in a healthier, more resilient lawn. Usual recommendations are for a cutting height of 2.5-3.5 inches.
- Cut your grass often. Grass doesn’t like to be cut, it just tolerates it. If you aren’t cutting your lawn regularly, you will be removing a greater percentage of the plant every time. This creates a stress for your grass that will result in a poorer quality lawn.
- Leave the clippings on your lawn. Grass clippings are 90% water and the remaining 10% (nutrients, minerals, carbon, etc.) also benefits your soil. Removing grass clippings will eventually result in the exhaustion of your soil and it will require additional fertilization to produce a healthy lawn.
- Save your leaf blower for your hardscaping! There are two reasons for this. The first is that aggressive use of a blower on your lawn removes the organic debris (tiny bits of leaves, twigs, dried grass etc.) that would otherwise find its way into your soil and ultimately feed it. The second is that a blower used in the garden is destructive of the habitats of everything from beneficial microscopic beings, to butterfly cocoons, to rabbit nests.
- Consider getting rid of your whipper snipper/ string trimmer. There’s no way around it, these tools work by spraying microplastics into our environment. Alternatives include everything from hand shears at the budget end to battery-powered rotary scissors at the luxury.
Crooked Creek Yard Work 