We are the lone house in our neighborhood that doesn’t use a lawn treatment service. I’m a farm girl deep down. Grass is just for cutting and playing on. My husband loves mowing the grass and keeps the yard looking really nice. He occasionally buys a couple bags of weed and feed and broadcasts it over the yard. That’s the extent of our lawn care.No one here uses any lawn service. If you sprayed chemicals here they would come after you with torches and pitchforks. Best is to just let it go natural. I have removed about 80% of our grass and replaced it with low maintenance perennials.
No one here uses any lawn service. If you sprayed chemicals here they would come after you with torches and pitchforks. Best is to just let it go natural. I have removed about 80% of our grass and replaced it with low maintenance perennials.
We used them for a few years and it worked great, lawn was weed free. We also used them for tick control, which was expensive and not sure it really was worth it. We stopped using them all together because we decided we'd rather have weeds and keep $500 a year.
I got the tick control last year too, and I plan on doing so again. It really helped cut down on the mosquitoes too. We were told last year was going to be bad for ticks, and then my sister found one on her dog.It is expensive, but worth it to me.
We stopped using it because our dog and kids were still getting ticks on them because of being in the woods. Treatment works in your yard, but if you are spending your time outdoors in areas that aren't treated it isn't going to help there. We live in a high tick area, with deer gathering in our yard all the time so we are used to taking all the precautions, thought treating our yard would help but it didn't make much of a difference.
What I liked was that it was a natural way to repel ticks. I hate having to spray and use chemicals on our bodies and the dog.
I don't doubt that it works as advertised, but for some situations, like ours, it may be a waste of money.
That is too bad. We have lots of deer, and turkeys, and bunnies, and possums, and it seemed to help us quite a lot. But maybe part of that is the possums, they love tics!