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April 19, 2009

Spring-Green Solicitation

I was working my way through some junk mail today and came across an envelope from Spring-Green "Your neighborhood lawncare professionals". I usually just toss this junk in the recycling bin, but this time I decided to open it up and see what they were offering. It was such a compelling offer that I thought I would share it with you.

According to the letter, the Zouras family can get the Preferred Program 2009 for only $278.97. That represents a discount from the regular cost of $417.15 for a savings of $138.18. This amazing offer would bring Spring-Green to my home 8 times to take care of my landscaping needs. According to them that includes their "preferred fertilization and weed control program plus total lawn insect control for your lawn".

As tempting as that might sound to some, I am certainly not interested in the application of any fertilizers because my native plants do not require them in order to thrive. So I get to save the money and I do not pollute the environment with excess fertilizers.

The weed control program is a little confusing to me, because they never define "weed". I would never consider spraying herbicides on my yard, but I wonder what they would say if I asked them to get rid of the weeds that keep coming into my yard from the neighbors. Of course the most prevalent one is lawn grass. Do you think that Spring-Green has a method for killing that?

I am even more horrified by the "insect control" service. I can only imagine what poisons they would be spreading to kill the oh so terrible INSECTS that might nibble on the plants, provide food for birds, or chew up decomposing organic matter. When will people realize that insects are an important part of the ecosystem? I hope that humans never figure out a way to kill all of the insects that they are trying to eliminate, because it would be catastrophic. Every animal, right down to the smallest ant, has a place in this world and the world cannot operate if all of the stations are not "animaled". I will continue to provide poison free native plants in my yard to attract the insects and give them a habitat to survive in.

So I will not be paying anything to have Spring-Green spread fertilizers and poisons in my yard. My plants and insects will thrive with no help from me other than being left unmolested. I hope you will do the same.

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Michelle wrote at 2009-04-27 13:40:

I got a flier from one of these lawn companies that featured a checklist of lawn problems, and the title "your lawn suffers from the following. . ." the numbskulls checked off every single problem on the list! And they were wrong; the reason our lawn looks awful is that the topsoil is too thin. The clueless company would have drenched the property in chemicals to "fix" it.

karma wrote at 2009-06-01 12:04:

How do they make money by coming 8 times for less than $300? They mix up a big truck tank of stuff at the beginning of the day and drive around and spray it on every lawn on their list. So whether you have broadleaf weeds in your grass lawn, you will get broadleaf herbicide. Whether you have grubs or any other innocent insects bold enough to pause in the sterile place that is your lawn, you will get insecticide. Until your soil under your lawn is so void of life that it NEEDS the influx of fake fertilizer to put on any growth at all because all the soil microorganism that might biodegrade any lawn clippings are all dead. They make it sound 'tailored' and 'custom' but it is customized to the average of your lawn and all the thousands of others they visit that day and tailored only in that they spray the number of square feet that you own. of course, I use the word you and your in the very generic sense, because the real you gets it. (And I don't mean lawn service.) My husband takes those calls and says "my wife specializes in natural landscaping. Would you like to talk to her?" and they usually voluntarily take us off the call list.

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