What We Offer

1. Mowing: We visit weekly to mow, this includes trimming edges and blowing grass clippings off driveways and sidewalks, starting at $50 per visit. (2500 sq.ft.) We cannot mow wet grass and we will return asap.

If grass is not growing during a drought or if we are rained out, or choose not to cut, when we return, we usually need to cut it twice. Invoices are reduced to reflect an early spring or late fall due to fewer visits. We may add or skip some treatments depending on conditions, if grass is not growing during a drought. Surcharges will apply if our costs go up (+10%) during the season, typically under a dollar.

Combine mowing with lawn care (weed control and fertilizer). We bill at month's end after all the work is done. It is a blended fixed monthly fee; it’s the same amount whether it is a 4- or 5-week month. 

2. Extra Weed Control: If you have a weed invasion beyond the basic lawn care plan, more than the normal number of weeds, that will require extra time. We pull weeds each visit and may not get them all. Lawns are always under attack as seeds and spores blow in all the time.

3. Cleaning up Leaves: For a small clean-up or mulching a small number of leaves, there’s never a charge, but for large clean-ups, it’s $50 per hour. Bin rental about 500 trips to the dump start at 250

Acorns, pine cones, and needles. Leaves do not come down all at once, so we need repeated trips—wet leaves require far more effort. You set the standard to tell us when to stop coming. We can take leaves to the curb, go to the dump, or bag.

4. Fix Snow Mould: Rake the area to remove the dead portion. The roots are ok, always good to rake the entire lawn in spring, $50 per hour. It's not dangerous to your health or your pets.

5. Aeration: Average 125 (liquid or core) Water first to soften soil, fall, or spring.

6. Over Seeding: Average 125

7. Top Dressing: Average 350. Enriched soil, delivered and raked out. High clay content means poor drainage. Sandy and clay soils needs nutrients.

8. Renovation: Combine aeration, over-seeding, and topsoil, less cost than sod, average 599

9. Sod: Instant lawn, no weeds, starting at 5-10 per square foot

10. Chinch Bug Control: 150

11. Insecticide Soap: Stop scale on bushes and shrubs -must see

12. Grub control: 150 for 2 applications of nematodes

13. Lime or Sulphur: 65 per application, no charge to check pH

14. Horticultural Vinegar: on hard surfaces-must see

15. Crabgrass Control: must see

16. Boxwood-Discuss: Discuss- we can spray every 6 weeks with BTK, not really sustainable. We recommend replacing with Yew, spirea, dwarf burning bush, cone aster, knock-out roses, or holly-see varieties

17. Poison Ivy or Giant Hog weed: * Danger-must see

18. Mulch: Bare soil is bad. Mulch offers many benefits, keeps out weeds, controls soil temperatures, stops soil from blowing away and a nice clean look.  Needs to be re-apply. Do not mulch vegetable gardens. Never use rubber mulch! Must see to quote, we recommend enhanced pine.

19. Gardening: We do some design, installation, and maintenance and have help for larger projects. Pruning hydrangeas after the last frost,

20. Lime/Sulphur Application: Control pH and helps keep ticks away 150

21. Other Amendments: Enriched soil, worm castings, sand.

22. Hardscape: Big rocks and paths must be seen. No pea stones!

23. Job Spikes: Deep root fertilizer for trees and shrubs. 30 per plant

24. Soil Test: 160 provided by a third-party laboratory

25. Surcharges: Will apply if our costs go up more than 10% during the year

26. House Watch: Going away, empty due to probate or for sale, we will check your home and send you pictures

27. Late fee: $20 after 4 weeks and we suspend services.

28. No Charge: Walk your property with you and discuss. Quotes over the phone will increase if the lawn is overgrown and neglected, weedy, poor soil, or bare spots. If the scope of work changes due to hidden factors, or material price increases. Kill any buckthorns-there is a fee to remove them. Clean up any small debris. Repair any small bare spots with seed and soil less than 12 inches in diameter. My newsletters are free and contain advice and resources that save you time, money, and worry. We will alert you to anything that is dangerous: branches that need to cut (2 deaths from falling trees in Oakville past 20 years one at RBG and one on Trafalgar)- heavy icicles in winter or clogged vents.

29. Research and Advice: for plant or turf selection, consultations are 50/hour plus HST. Advice: Have a licensed arborist, (200+ per hour) check your trees every few years for pruning, fertilizers also have an irrigation system. For security, we recommend, having a home  camera and motion detector lighting-yes, a camera in your vehicle.

30. Fair Labour and Pricing Explanation: Everyone needs to make a living wage. The industry standard is 60 to 100 per hour per person, we are 50 plus HST and materials per worker, i.e. 2-person team 110 per hour. (Gardening, leaves, pruning).

In Ontario, the 2024 minimum wage is 17.20. As an average minimum wage earner worker, you just show up. We need specialized education, equipment, permits, training in safety equipment, need to be physically fit and able to work outside in the heat and dusty environments.

We need to pay for insurance, licenses, wages, gas, maintenance, accounting, various taxes (about 50%), vehicles, tools, equipment, soil, seed, advertising, training, rent, and administration.