Savannah Lawn Care

We are Hiring!

Savannah Eco Mowing, Savannah’s first environmentally friendly lawn service is looking for a lawn maintenance technician to help the company grow while continuing to provide quality service. If you are self motivated, punctual, and can work outdoors in a steady, efficient way, this is a good opportunity to earn a living wage while enjoying both the outdoors and our electric, zero-emissions, quiet equipment which creates much less noise and no exhaust fumes while you work. The ideal candidate will be knowledgeable about mowing, including experience operating zero turn mowers, string trimming, edging, blowing and hedge trimming.

Requirements:

– Must have valid driver’s license. A clean record is a MUST.

– Must be dependable and on time.

– Must have transportation to office.

– Must be able to pass background check and drug test.

– Must be able to perform physical duties required in this line of work.

– Minimum (2) Year Experience.

$12- $14/hr pay based on experience.

download job application Here

and email or call Nate at
nate@savannahecomowing.com
912.373.5030

What to do with leaves – Fall lawn maintenance

Trees are great! except when you have to clean up the mess they make when the leaves fall. Leaves left sitting on top of your lawn can deprive the grass of sunlight, and water. Luckily, Savannah Eco Mowing can help. Here are some tips for handling leaves in an eco-friendly manner.

Mulch Them Up

For many yards, going over the lawn with a mulching mower periodically while leaves are falling is a great way to keep them from negatively affecting the lawn, while keeping your yard looking neat. It is also beneficial for both the environment and the grass. Because the leaves stay on your property it saves space in landfills, there are no emissions created transporting them. The mulched leaves also become a natural fertilizer for the lawn as the small pieces work their way into the soil pretty quickly, helping to reduce compaction and providing organic material to the soil.

Make Compost

Leaves are great for making compost, you can compost them in a compost bin, or make a pile. Click here for more Composting Tips

Use Paper

If you are bagging your leaves, be sure to use biodegradable paper bags, not plastic. They are inexpensive and can be found in most hardware or gardening stores.

Quiet lawn maintenance is good for your health

One of the advantages of electric lawn equipment is that it is significantly less noisy than gas. It is not uncommon for our customers to comment on how quiet the equipment is, or just ask “Is that thing on?” While this is great for people who are trying to nap or listen to music or TV while we are mowing, there are also health benefits associated with the quiet environment that you and your neighbors can share.

The main problem people associate with loud noise that comes from commercial lawn equipment is hearing loss. This is a concern for the workers operating the equipment, and they usually must wear some form of hearing protection to avoid damaging their ears, unless they work for a company that uses electric equipment, such as Savannah Eco Mowing

While you yourself are unlikely do develop hearing loss from the noisy gas equipment your lawn service uses to mow your lawn, hearing loss is not the only negative health effect associated with noise. Studies show that there are direct links between noise and health. Among the health problems noise can contribute to are stress related illnesses, high blood pressure, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, irritability, hypertension, cardiac disease and ulcers. It can also effect your life in other negative ways, such as speech interference, sleep disruption, and lost productivity.

So when choosing who you want to maintain your lawn, you can decide not to contribute to the din of lawn equipment in your neighborhood, and instead help create a quiet, healthy environment by choosing Savannah Eco Mowing.

Benefits Of Regular Mowing

Having your lawn mowed regularly has a variety of benefits that go beyond the obvious neat and appealing look of a freshly cut lawn. It also helps keep your lawn healthy in a few different ways.

Cutting your lawn down to a uniform length on a regular basis helps the lawn grow more uniformly and consistantly, because all areas of the lawn have equal access to sun and water. Another benifit is that over time, the plants that recover most quickly from each mowing will thrive and grow the most, making the overall lawn more hardy and healthy.

It also helps combat many weeds, because cutting the seedhead off weeds is more traumatic than cutting the tips off the blades of grass. This is especially true if you mow often enough so that you are removing no more than 1/3 of the total legnth of the grass. This allowes the grass to recover more easily than the weeds.

Another advantage is that, if you use a mulching mower, the part of the grass that is cut gets mulched into small pieces which fall back into the soil and become a good natural fertilizer.

Mowing regularly also means that debris gets picked up, and leaves that fall on the lawn can be mulched up before accumulating to the point where it becomes a big cleanup job.

Green Lawn Mowers

There are many different types of mowers available today, and depending upon your lawn, some will be better suited to your needs than others.

For people with small lawns who like to mow often, a reel mower might do the trick. Reel mowers are the best for the environment, as they create no emissions. They are also good for your lawn, as they don’t tare the grass as much as rotary mowers when cutting, making the lawn less susceptible to disease. The drawbacks are that they can be hard to push if the grass is thick, and they will not cut grass or weeds that have grown too high.

Electric mowers are another eco friendly option. They are available in corded or battery operated models. Many have removable batteries that you can take inside and charge after you are done mowing. The electricity will cost you a lot less than gas, and electric mowers reduce emissions as the pollution generated at the power plant creating the electricity for the battery or mower is significantly less than what a gas mower would emit. Most electric models are not quite as powerful as gas versions, but keeping the blades sharp will improve results. Other advantages are that they require no tune ups, run quieter, and start with the push of a button.

If you have a large lawn and need to get a riding or zero turn mower for your lawn, there are more and more eco friendly options becoming available. There are electric, propane, and mowers that will run on biodiesel available.

Of course, if you are too busy to mow yourself, you can still go green and hire Savannah Eco Mowing and get a reliable, professional, eco friendly lawn care service.

Composting Tips

Compost is decomposed organic matter that is rich in nutrients that are good for your lawn and other plants in your yard. Making your own compost saves landfill space and makes great natural food for your lawn at the same time. Composting can be as simple as making a pile of a mix of leaves, twigs, bark, grass, and food waste and letting it sit for between 6 months to a year. A turning unit with multiple bins can speed things up, but requires more work.

Adding a top dressing of compost to your lawn in the spring or fall is a great way to improve soil quality. Another option is to make a compost tea and spray it on your lawn. Compost tea allows the grass to access the nutrients quicker than dry compost and has been shown to help make your lawn more disease and insect resistant.

Many types of yard and food wastes can be composted, such as leaves, grass, bark, and twigs. If you do decide to build a turning unit or have one made, the process can be complete between 6 to 10 weeks. You want to have at least a 2 to 1 ratio of carbon rich wastes, called “browns” such as leaves, twigs and bark, to nitrogen rich wastes, called “greens”, like grass, weeds and food waste. Keeping the compost slightly moist and aerated will help decomposition. After you put the wastes into the first bin, at first the temperature should start to rise, as the microorganisms reproduce and start breaking down the material. Once the temperature starts to fall, you turn the compost into the next bin. After repeating this a few times, the temperature will level off and you will be left with a mature compost that is great for your lawn.

Lawn Care and Savannah, GA Home Values

One advantage to hiring a lawn care service in Savannah, GA, is the positive effect on home value. Anyone who’s looked into buying or selling a home recently knows that there are a lot of properties for buyers to choose from. Curb appeal, or lack thereof, can be the deciding factor in whether or not prospective buyers even look at your home’s interior. Hiring a lawn care service to help maintain your yard is a good way to boost your home’s appeal. But whether you want to sell, have recently bought a home, or just want to stay put, having a lawn care service such as Savannah Eco Mowing maintain your yard not only saves you time, but is an investment in your home.

Updating Kitchens and Bathrooms is usually what people think will increase their home value the most. What many people do not realize is that a well maintained lawn and landscape can dramatically boost your homes curb appeal, and home value along with it. According to the “Husqvarna Global Gardening Report 2011”, landscaping can add up to 18 percent to your homes value. It also estimated a $1.8 return for every dollar spent on landscaping and lawn care, and that is a good investment in any type of market. Though there are many reasons people hire lawn care and landscaping services, having Savannah Eco Mowing maintain your yard is not just an investment in the environment and community that will reduce air, water and noise pollution, clearly it is also an investment in your home.

Although the last few years have been pretty tough on the real estate market in the US, and Savannah, GA is no exception, keeping your lawn well maintained by Savannah Eco Mowing is an investment in your home, your community, and the environment that you can feel good about.

Overseeding Your Lawn

At Savannah Eco Mowing, we like to avoid using chemical herbicides as part of our lawn care service. Instead, we focus on creating healthy lawns using a variety of techniques that are better for you, your lawn and the environment. A lawn that has thick, healthy grass, with deep healthy roots naturally has fewer weed problems, reducing the need for herbicides of any kind.

Many people do not realize that even healthy grass that is well maintained will tend to thin over time. To keep your lawn nice and thick, overseeding should be done every 4 or 5 years. In Savannah, GA there are many lawn care services you can hire to overseed your lawn, or you can do it yourself. Savannah Eco Mowing will, of course, be happy to help you overseed, but whatever you decide to do, here are some of the basics you should know.

Before putting down seed, you need to mow the lawn very low. The seed needs to make it down to the soil to germinate, and the new grass will need sunlight to grow. Aerating is also helpful, and going over the soil with a stiff rake, or putting down a thin layer of compost will help the seed germinate better. When choosing your seed, the lower the amount of weed seed the better.

You will need to water lightly and frequently until the new grass starts sprouting up. Ideally the soil would be slightly moist at all times. Once the grass starts coming up, you can water longer and less often.

Although overseeding your lawn does not need to be done very often, and isn’t the first thing you think of when considering a lawn care service, it will help you maintain a thick beautiful lawn, with fewer weeds and less need for herbicides.

Why aerating is good for your lawn

Savannah Eco Mowing strives to offer a variety of lawn care services that will help make your lawn healthier and lower maintenance, while being safe for the environment. Aeration fits right in with this ideal as it very seldomly needs to be done, and benefits your lawn with very little environmental impact.

Aeration involves removing small cores of soil throughout the lawn, allowing water, air, and nutrients to fill the holes and get into the soil and root system more easily, reduces compaction, and encourages root growth. Aeration also helps drainage, reducing runoff and puddling. Basically, Aeration is an aspect of organic lawn care and landscaping that will help your lawn become healthier and hardier.

It is only necessary to aerate your lawn every other year, and you can rent an aerator and do it yourself, or hire a professional lawn care service such as Savannah Eco Mowing to do it for you. Aeration should be done just before that growing season for the grass, which in Savannah, GA where warm season grasses are common, is in the Spring.

Lawn Mowing with Battery Power

In the past, maintaining your lawn meant noisy, smelly, polluting gas mowers. Fortunately, there are a variety of cordless battery powered mowers on the market today that will do a good job mowing your lawn. With these rechargeable mowers you’ll spend less money on lawn care over time. No need to buy gas, oil, or spark plugs and electric mowers don’t require yearly tune ups. The cost of recharging the batteries is negligible compared to the cost of gas. They also start more reliably and with a push of a button, as opposed to yanking a cord over and over just trying to start your mower so you can mow the lawn. They are also much quieter than gas mowers, which is one reason people like lawn care services that use electric equipment, such as Savannah Eco Mowing.

Although many people might not realize it, lawn care is a significant contributor to air pollution, especially in cities. According to the EPA, emissions from lawn mowers contribute almost one third of the total air pollution in metropolitan areas such as Savannah, and five to ten percent overall. While the batteries still require electricity, they create significantly less pollution overall. If you have a small lawn you could also consider a reel mower, which create no emissions at all. Whether you want to do it yourself, or hire a professional lawn care service, battery powered mowers are a quiet, eco friendly way to mow your lawn.