Top 7 Benefits of Hiring a Professional Lawn Care Company in Florida

Let’s be honest — the top benefit of hiring a professional lawn care company is you don’t have to do your own lawn care.

That frees you up for much more fun and interesting things, like diving with sharks, winning tango competitions or eating cookies. 

Why hire a professional lawn care service? It saves you a lot of hassle. It ensures your lawn gets everything it needs to thrive. It boosts your property value. And more good stuff. 

Let’s learn more about professional lawn care services, including:

Pros Know the Good Stuff

Lawn Care is Year-Round Here

Weeds Are Tricky
 
One Word: Bugs
 
You Get Expert Eyes on Your Landscaping Year-Round

A Healthy Lawn Boosts Your Property Value

Don’t You Have Better Things To Do?

1. Pros Know the Good Stuff

Nobody expects you to know everything about caring for your lawn. You’re a teacher, or a therapist or you own a company that bottles dish soap. 

Meanwhile, there’s a lot of stuff to know about having a healthy lawn.

Fertilizing. Watering. Weed control. Battling bugs.

Local lawn care experts are trained in all these things.

They know exactly when to zoom in for fertilizer and weed control. They understand Sarasota’s climate, which can be kind of wacky.

Conditions are different throughout Florida. Tropical Gardens programs are tailored exactly for here — right in your backyard. 

Our local lawn care experts know what kind of grass you have and what it needs, right down to the proper mowing height. (FYI, that’s 4.5 to 5 inches tall for St Augustine, higher than other types of grass.)

Are you a fertilizer expert? We are. 

Smaller, more frequent fertilizer applications are needed here in Sarasota, where nutrients flow right through our sandy soil. 

That gives fertilizer a better chance of actually feeding the lawn’s roots instead of just draining right through into the groundwater. 

You get the idea. Lawn care company pros know all the great lawn care tips because that’s what we do. Every day. 

2. Lawn Care is Year-Round Here

Here in Sarasota, there’s not really a break from lawn care, which can really get on your nerves. There’s always something. 

It’s warmer earlier and later in the year now here than it used to be. That means your grass grows more and needs year-round mowing. Hire us, and that’s a bunch of times you don’t have to mow. (42, to be exact.)

You’ve probably noticed there’s lots of leaf clean up in December, January, and February, but it goes beyond that. Leaf debris doesn’t just fall in one simple season here like it does for those rake-loving Northerners. 

If you have a lot of pretty deciduous trees like oaks and ‘Shady Lady’ black olive trees, those fallen leaves make their way into struggling areas of your lawn and settle in, preventing your lawn from filling in unsightly bare spots. 

If that worry isn’t on your list, let’s keep it that way. Hire a lawn care company to put it on their list.

3. Weeds Are Tricky 

Try to stay on top of all the weeds that want to make your lawn their new home. Go ahead. We’ll wait. 

Here’s just one annoying thing about weeds: different weeds emerge at different times throughout the year, which means targeted weed control at just the right times is a crucial part of professional lawn care services. 

Here at Tropical Gardens, we don’t just blanket your lawn with herbicides. That actually stunts the growth of your grass and it’s terrible for the environment.

We use pre-emergent herbicides to stay on top of common southwest Florida weeds like crabgrass. 

Then we spray weeds each month as needed. As lawn technicians walk back and forth across your lawn, they’re on the lookout for weeds. If they see weeds, they spray a product that targets that exact weed. 

Invest in professional pre- and post-emergent weed control treatments from local lawn care experts to keep your property weed-free throughout the year, and cross “swear about weeds” off your do-to list.

4. One Word: Bugs 

Love bugs? Even the slimy ones? Even the ones with “piercing mouth parts,” as bug scientists love to describe them? Then by all means, get out there and wage your best battle against gross grubs and chinch bugs. 

Or, go about your happy day pretending these rude little beasts don’t even exist, because you’ve hired professional lawn care services to keep them away. 

How? Three big ways:

• Tropical Gardens crews apply chinch bug prevention at the beginning of drought season, and that lasts for a few weeks. Then we keep an eye on things and can spray to kill the pests if needed.
• Preventive grub treatment is included in the top two tiers of Tropical Gardens’ comprehensive lawn care programs.
• Let’s not forget sod webworms. Their reign of terror starts with little moths that flutter over lawns in spring and summer, flying in a zigzag pattern just above the turf surface. They lay millions of tiny eggs in the grass. We spray for them. 

Bye, bugs. 

5. You Get Expert Eyes on Your Landscaping Year-Round

There’s a lot going on out there on your lawn and it’s not just picnics. It’s bad stuff, like ugly lawn diseases, gobbling bugs and invasive weeds. 

Wouldn’t it be great if somebody kept watch out there? Guess what? Tropical Gardens account managers walk your property every month, regularly patrolling for all these lawn-damaging annoyances. We’ll send you photos of any problem areas we spot — along with our plan to fix it. It’s a great reason to hire a professional lawn care service. So much less stress. 

6. A Healthy Lawn Boosts Your Property Value

You can have the nicest home in the neighborhood, but if your lawn is thin, brown or full of weeds, nobody cares that you have a really pretty front porch. 

A lawn care company makes sure you have a healthy, well-maintained, attractive lawn — a key element of curb appeal that boosts your property value, often by 15 to 20 percent. 

7. Don’t You Have Better Things To Do?

Please say yes. We don’t want to have to worry about you.

Let’s face it, a lawn is high maintenance. Tackle all the tasks yourself, and you have very little free time left for fun. 

But, hand over the pesky chores to experienced local lawn care experts that specialize in high-end turf care and you can rest easy. Learn to play the violin. Enter a strawberry shortcake contest. 

Better yet, just hit the hammock.

Get on Board with a Year-Round Maintenance Program 

Here at Tropical Gardens our professional lawn care service includes two comprehensive landscape maintenance programs that cover all these year-round lawn maintenance issues. 
One plan includes 42 visits and the other offers 51 visits.

If you don’t have leaf-dropping deciduous trees, the 42-visit plan should work for you. If you have a lot of leaf debris throughout the year, you’ll want the extra attention of the 51-visit plan, so crews can keep your lawn clear and thriving. 

Pro tip: Choose a full-service Sarasota commercial landscape maintenance company. Chances are, your landscaping includes more than just lawn. 

You want one skilled, reputable landscaping company to handle all your year-round landscape maintenance, from mowing to plant health care to irrigation. 

It’s a lot easier on you. It means there’s just one place to call when you have questions or concerns about your property, no matter the issue.

Ready for Sarasota Lawn Care Experts to Ease Your Stress? Talk to Us

Maybe you’re exhausted just reading about all this year-round lawn maintenance. There’s a lot going on out there. 

Hand over the pesky chores to skilled 
lawn care services in Sarasota FL that specialize in comprehensive turf care. 

Let’s get started. We’ll help you figure it all out. 

Give us a call or fill out our form today. Our team of local lawn care experts will get you back in that hammock in no time.