A Career In Professional Landscaping

Beautifying the outdoors is a necessity for many many people in the U.S. Whether it is an elder retired person with nothing else better to do, just an average guy who likes his/her lawn to look nice, or a professional landscaper, making lawn and landscapes nice, clean, and manicured, Professional Landscaping is important to Societies, communities, and the Environment. A Lot of times landscaping can make up one's opinion about a neighborhood, and or town because of nicd landscaping or flower beds, a nice manicured lawns and little details that help make it up. When in Landscaping, the first glimpse at a lawn should be the best after a fresh mow or some sort of weekly yard maintenance. Weekly Lawn Maintenance is taken care of every week on …show more content…
This certain profession is usually left out because most people when hearing “landscaping” just think of summer and only the work those months bring. When being in the profession, snow plowing gives a huge boost to one for many different reasons, one being it give someone the opportunity to increase their salary throughout the winter months, and i two is shows that your specific company gives every type of service needed for success. Snow plowing is not only important for the business owner but highly important to many different people and businesses. Just for a small example, a huge snow storm comes through central il, there has to be someone to plow the parking lot of many businesses throughout the county so that they can continue work each and every day. It is highly important in the landscaping field of snow and ice maintenance, that you price correctly. “Pricing well is important because with snow plowing, Their are many different opportunities for a breakdown, or just easy to lose money on the job” (Josh Keith). “When talking about plowing many questions need to be answered before submitting a quote” (Phil Newell). “ The questions that need to be answered are some like, What exactly are you plowing, business, residential properties, and what types of sidewalks or possible back decks are needed to be covered to” (Phil Newell). “An important boost in business …show more content…
With the right equipment, it is easier to accomplish different jobs. How to judge whether you have the right equipment is simply judging that yourself, depending on how big your business is. Some businesses are just strictly mowing and fertilizing, and some businesses acquire everything. If one's business is just strictly mowing and fertilizing then one's business should have a couple different varieties of mowers, such as zero turns, walk behind or stand on mowers and possibly a couple push mowers. For fertilizing issues a couple different types of spreaders would come in handy, while someone's business is larger than others, they may have a standon unit with a spreader on it that drives to make fertilizing and seeding more easier and more efficient to cover more ground in less time rather than walking. Larger landscaping companies may require more equipment because of the fact that they deal with more work and work that takes longer to deal with. Other examples of needing more equipment is that if one's business is large enough, they may have to deal with more than one crew, that may even involve closer to having 5 crews. While talking to jeremy and his father pete, they gave the example of a business with multiple crews, one or two crews, can be specific “mowing and weekly yard maintenance crews”, another being, a “landscaping crew” that involves installing landscaping features, and other