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Public Service Announcement
Published on Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Hello! This is Chester with big Lakes Lawncare, and I have a question for you. Do you live in Southeast Michigan? If you live in Macomb County? Or Oakland County? If the answer is yes, then here’s my next question. Do you live in a neighborhood with mature trees? Mature like the ones behind me. If the answer is yes again, then tell me this:, How does your lawn look? Is it old, dried, destroyed, and beat-up? If so? Give us a call. We do sod, we do lots of sod, and we do sod, the best...
When to trim Forsythia?
Published on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
What’s up, everyone? It’s Chester here with Big Leagues Lawn Care.
Just wanted to show you this plant really quick.
This is the same plant from the spring.
It’s called a forsythia, and these things are gorgeous and bright yellow when they bloom.
When they’re dormant, the other 50 weeks out of the year, they just look kind of scrubby, like a big old unruly bush, but these are gorgeous.
When these things do bloom, that means it’s spring.
They...
What to be careful of when trimming hedgerows.
Published on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Hello. Chester Buczynski here Big Lakes Lawncare. I have a quick quick tip excuse me, a quick tip for any of you that may be trimming your own hedges this year.
There’s one tip I have that I see happen all the time. People make this mistake and it makes the hedges look like crap. So, the idea when you’re trimming your hedges is to have a consistent level that’s flat straight across.
Now, what happens is you get to the beginning of the shrubs and start trimming...
Lawn Mowing Tips
Published on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Everybody loves them, and we’re all thinking about our lawns right now. Maybe, maybe not.
There are 40 million acres of lawn in the US, you wanna know the single most irrigated crop in the United States?
Corn, soy beans, wheat?
Nope! Its lawns.
Single biggest irrigated crop in the US is lawns.
People love them.
People also spend an average of 70 hours per year mowing their lawns and an average of 20 hours per year maintaining their lawn mower, sharpening the blade,...
Three types of lawn and landscaping companies.
Published on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
What’s up, everyone? It’s Chester with Big Lakes Lawncare.
I’m out here today in Macomb, Michigan. Gorgeous winter day out here.
I’m at a site we maintain that’s a hotel. If you’re looking for a lawn or landscape contractor, or snow removal contractor, landscape installation contractor, there’s generally three types of options that you’re gonna be considering.
The first option’s the big guy.
The second option, excuse me, is the...
About our phone system.
Published on Wednesday, January 09, 2019
Hello it’s Chester with Big Lakes Lawncare and today I’m going to talk quickly about our phone system, and how we guarantee that we answer the phone. All the time. So I started this company myself my name is Chester I started Big Lakes Lawncare in late 2014 and one of the first things I did when I decided to start a company, is I looked around for my competition. Who else is doing what I want to do in the market.
I found about the top 50 companies in the area that did the...
The key to installing mulch around the base of a tree.
Published on Sunday, April 22, 2018
Hello, my name is Chester. I’m the founder of big lakes lawn care and today I’m going to give you a quick tip if you are installing your own mulch this year.
So, one mistake that people make when they’re installing mulch is that at the base of their plants and trees in their landscape, they mound the mulch up around the tree trunk or the base of that plant. It looks like a volcano, they do a volcano around the base of the plant. What this does is it chokes off that plant it ...
3 Ways we keep prices competitive
Published on Sunday, April 22, 2018
What’s up guys! It’s Chester with Big Lakes Lawncare. Today I’m going to tell you three of the ways that we keep our prices competitive and low. Way number one is we buy bulk. We buy everything in bulk, we buy lawn mowers in bulk, we buy blades in bulk, materials, mulch, fuel, buy it all in bulk. We pass those savings on to you because we know that if the price is too high, it doesn’t matter how good our work is. You’re not going to be interested.
The second way ...
Transform your property with mulch!
Published on Sunday, April 22, 2018
What’s up guys it’s Chester with big Lakes lawn care. Today I’m gonna give you a few points on how to keep your beds weed free. This is a question we get asked all the time, and I figured I’d give you a few pointers on how you can do it by...
We guarantee our plowing services
Published on Saturday, April 21, 2018
Hey guys, it’s Chester with Big Lake Lawncare. Real quick I want to let you know, that if you sign up for our plowing services, and any of your sod is damaged or a sprinkler head gets broken, In the act of us plowing or snow blowing your property – We come back in the spring for free we fix them all. No questions asked, we know that it’s just a product of working in the snow.Things do get damaged and we fix them all for free.
If you have any doubts or...
