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Fewer Callbacks, Wider Windows: The Case for Season-Long Insect Control

Lawn care is a tough business, being at the mercy of Mother Nature. Despite tight application windows, customers still expect their turf to be vibrant and healthy. One tool that can help open up LCOs’ calendars and reduce callbacks is the use of insecticides that offer season-long control. ā€œWe cannot ignore customer expectations regarding the […]

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Boosting Your Business: The Lawn Care Routing Playbook for Tighter Routes and Bigger Returns

When it comes to lawn care, route density isn’t just a ā€˜nice-to-have’ aspect of the business. It plays a direct role in your company’s profitability, efficiency and ability to deliver a better overall customer experience. ā€œWhen your stops are tighter together, your trucks spend less time driving and more time actually servicing customers,ā€ saysĀ Eric Lehmann, […]

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Keeping the Roots: Inside Legacy Lawns’ Partnership Playbook

Often, when owners step away from the business, what they’ve built fades away after being acquired. Legacy Lawns, based in Gainesville, Georgia, was formed to preserve and strengthen the heritage of lawn care companies that join them. ā€œFor years we’ve seen incredible independent operators building great businesses, but we’ve also seen the increasing complexity of […]

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Success in Managing Cool-Season Lawns: Cleaner Turf, Fewer Callbacks

Sponsored Content By Lindsey Hoffman Chappell, Ph.D., Green Solutions Team, Envu Every efficient cool-season program starts with the cultural basics to build a dense, low-stress lawn. Unfortunately, most of this is squarely in the hands of clients. A quick reminder is beneficial for clients in the spring about frequent mowing at approximately three inches or […]

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Grateful for Grass: Using National Lawn Care Month to Elevate the Industry’s Value

April is the month when many lawn care companies are out in force, waking up their existing customers’ yards and taking on new clients, so it is fitting that April is also National Lawn Care Month. This month serves as a time to educate consumers on the value of lawn care, combat misconceptions about turfgrass and […]

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From King Green to a National Platform: Inside the Launch of Legacy Lawns

ā€œWho will protect what I built?ā€ is the question owners must ask when they reach the point where they’re ready to retire or simply take a step back from the business. In response to this, Jennifer Jorge and other industry leaders have collaborated to launch Legacy Lawns, a new national lawn care platform, which unites […]

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Level Up: Schendel Lawn & Landscape Scales for Employee Advancement

Brandon Moore, managing partner of Schendel Lawn & Landscape, based in Topeka, Kansas, doesn’t have an ideal company size set for his company, as he never wants to limit where they can go. However, he does say that in seven years, they want to reach $27 million in annual revenue. Moore originally had no expectation […]

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Quality Matters: Creating Quality Standards You Can Train Your Team To

This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Don’t miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. The quality of your work is one of your best forms of advertising, but it is also the first thing that starts slipping as you grow. This is why developing a training program that […]

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Turf Masters Brands Scales Up While Honoring Local Legacies

Turf Masters Brands, based in Roswell, Georgia, has completed 19 acquisitions and 12 in the last year alone. Andy Kadrich, founder of Turf Masters Lawncare LLC, senior advisor and board member to Turf Masters Brands, says he formed Turf Masters Brands along with All Turf Holdings, LLC and Green Group Holdings in 2022 with the […]

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Five Lessons Learned from Over 40 Years in the Lawn Care Business

Kenny Crenshaw originally wanted to be a farmer. However, he lacked the resources to do so in the 80s. Instead, he was presented with the opportunity to start a lawn care company with Bob Taylor. He had worked for Taylor mowing lawns while attending college. At age 22, he started Herbi-Systems, based in Memphis, Tennessee, […]

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