Seed Money: According to turf seed suppliers and landscape contractors, establishing lawns can be a profitable service

摘要

Stop me if you've heard this one: A suburban woman wants a lawn. She wants her landscape contractor to break up the compacted soil, apply a soil amendment, till and roll — all before spreading the seed, covering it with hay, fertilizing and irrigating. Oh, and she really doesn't want to pay much for it. Admittedly, it's not much of a joke - especially to contractors. Truth be told, seeding lawns requires, on average, more than an hour of work per 10 square feet, with sometimes little profit gleanedfrom the efforts. However, landscape contractors include work-intensive turf seeding in their mix because from it they can glean profit from the add-on services they can sell to these customers, such as tree and shrub installation and design work.