Wellesley Spring Clean ups

Rich, Rodrigo and I went to do 2 more cleanups in Wellesley, today. On this road we have 4 customers. Last year we had 6 but due to the economic conditions of today, 2 have decided to do the work themselves this year.

The picture on the left, is a home where we redid the complete front yard about 10 years ago and I made the brick patio in the back yard twice. Sometime I will show a picture of it. The reason it was done twice is that, there was a concrete wall holding up the back hill and it was getting old and falling down. The owner decide she wanted to have a New England field stone wall, built in it's place. When the wall was made, the patio had to be taken up, in order for the equipment to get up on the hill to build the wall. I also made the front brick walkway as you can see.

Southborough and Framingham Lawn Fertilizing

For the rest of the week I will be going on my fertilizing route in different towns that we have customers in. Today, I will start off in Marlborough, Massachusetts at an Animal Hospital. My route has been reduced quite a bit due to the tough economic conditions we are experiencing here in New England. Customers are cutting back on a lot of landscape expenses this year.

While I am doing the lawn fertilization Rich, is fertilizing the ornamental bushes and trees. He is using Holly Tone, which is an organic, acidic fertilizer, which we apply in the spring and at the end of the season. We have had great success with it, it takes a while for it to work, but the acid loving, ornamental become very health and full.

One of the properties I will be fertilizing today is the boss's, in Southborough, Massachusetts. The picture, on the left is of Rob's backyard which shows a blue stone patio I worked on with Rich a few years ago. Rob has excellent design experience as you can see. I also did the brick patio around his in ground pool, but I will have to show that pic on another blog post.

After we finish in Southborough, we will also be going to Framingham to fertilize the grounds of a commercial building. This will be a long work day for Rich and I, good thing I have my CRAVE energy drink to keep me energized for the afternoon. I am really getting to enjoy having, that much extra energy in the afternoon, with out the jitters, that coffee gives me.