Plant murderers
Yard crews another thing you don’t see often, or at all in New England? We tend to fill the yards with more garden and less grass and the lawn is under snow half of the year. It ‘s just not something people can make a living doing up north.
Down here houses usually come with a lawn crew. While the house has been up for sale the home owner hires a crew to maintain the yard or just keeps the existing crew on. The new people moving in a are busy, it is one less thing to think about and so the yard crew ends up staying.
Having a yard crew is not like having a gardener. The lawn gets cut and edged. The shrubs all get the french poodle equivalent of trims a few times a year. If you see a home with round, square or mushroom shaped bushes that would be the reason. I’ve told mine not to touch my shrubs under penalty of replacing anything that looks like a french poodle. So far four plants have been replaced.
The lawn crew thinks your garden is a trash can. All the cut grass, fallen leaves and other debri get blown into your gardens from the lawn so they don’t have to clean up after themselves. This month the leaves and debri had gotten so deep in all the beds I couldn’t let it go anymore. I told the crew they had to clean up their mess. Three plants were slaughtered in the process, and I had to supervise the entire process.
So I have had it with the lawn crew, I ‘ve decided that it is less work for me to mow the little remaining lawn than it is to supervise and clean up after the crew. I’m thinking they might make good fertilizer under the new bed I’m digging for my roses. At least I’ll get my money’s worth that week.
