Lawn Mowing in Richmond & Williamsburg, VA

We don’t. Mowing comes through our Total Maintenance Package on an annual agreement, and there’s a turf reason behind that beyond scheduling. A lawn cut on an irregular basis gets scalped every time, because too much blade comes off in one pass, and the grass spends the next week recovering instead of growing thick. Consistent weekly cutting is what produces a dense lawn. If your property has gotten overgrown and you’re after a single reset rather than ongoing service, our one-time landscape cleanup handles overgrowth, weeds, and debris, and it’s a good starting point if you want to see how we work before committing to a plan.

Generally the end of March through the start of November, though both ends move with the weather rather than the calendar. We start when soil temperatures bring the grass out of dormancy and growth picks up, and we stop when it slows in late fall. That works out to 32 visits across the season on the Total Maintenance Package. Through the off-season the crews shift to leaf cleanup, winter pruning, and mulching, so your property keeps getting attention when the grass isn’t growing.

For the tall fescue most lawns here are planted in, we mow high, around three and a half to four inches. It looks longer than a scalped lawn because it is, and that’s the point: the height is what keeps the turf dense and the crabgrass out through the summer. We leave the clippings on the lawn rather than bagging them, since they break down quickly and return nitrogen to the soil, which means less fertilizer over the season. Clippings only cause trouble when a lawn is cut too infrequently and comes off in clumps, which weekly service prevents. If your lawn is zoysia or bermuda, the right height is lower and we adjust accordingly.

We work hard to keep the same crew on your property as much as possible, and we typically run two-person crews including a team leader. Illness, weather delays, and leaf season staffing can occasionally change that. On scheduling, we generally service commercial properties earlier in the week and residential closer to the weekend, though we group jobs that sit near each other to save fuel and time, so some residential lawns land earlier in the week. Your point of contact can tell you where your property falls in the route.

Mowing, trimming around beds, trees, and obstacles the mower can’t reach, and blowing off the hard surfaces before the crew leaves, which covers driveways, walkways, patios, decks, and porches. Bed weeding, mulching, pre-emergent applications, and turf fertilization are separate services in the Total Maintenance Package, each on their own schedule through the year, and options like pruning, aeration and overseeding, and leaf removal can be added on top.