{"id":899,"date":"2016-05-08T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawndoctor.com\/boston-ma\/?p=899"},"modified":"2017-02-08T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:48:53","slug":"dependable-lawn-care-in-bostonor-you-could-hire-your-friends-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawndoctor.com\/boston-ma\/dependable-lawn-care-in-bostonor-you-could-hire-your-friends-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dependable Lawn Care in Boston\u2026Or You Could Hire Your Friend\u2019s Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cSo you know how it is. With the economy the way it is, everybody\u2019s having a hard time finding work. Teenagers especially are struggling. So when my friend comes to me and tells me her kid is trying to make some money by mowing lawns and doing general yard work type stuff, I figured why not?\u201d Richard said. \u201cWe all have to start off somewhere.\u201d He rolled his eyes. \u201cI didn\u2019t really think much about it until this July, when my wife wanted to have a few friends over for the holiday. That\u2019s when I heard all about how bad our yard looked.\u201d<\/p>\n

A cursory investigation revealed that the lawn care job Richard\u2019s friend\u2019s kid had been doing was uneven at best. \u201cThere were parts of our lawn that hadn\u2019t been mowed in weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd some kind of vine had grown into our shrubs and was choking it out. There were these big brown bare patches that hadn\u2019t been there before. My wife was furious. It was time to call in the Boston lawn care pros for some emergency TLC.\u201d<\/p>\n

After contacting a Boston lawn care service<\/a>, Richard learned that some of the worst problems in his lawn were attributable to needed maintenance tasks going undone. Invasive weed growth and the damaging vines were removed, and preventative steps taken to ensure the lawn would grow back green and healthy. \u201cIf everything had been done in the way I\u2019d been paying for it to be done,\u201d Richard said, \u201cthis never would have happened. It was a real eye opener for me to see how much the role dependable lawn care plays in the appearance of your home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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