Landscaping employees often work with chemicals, including industry-specific chemicals such as fertilizers, weed killers, and various pesticides that are considered hazardous. Safe chemical use is essential when working, protecting both the employee and anyone else close to the job site or workspace. Landscaping Employee Training First and foremost, one of the most critical components of… [Read More]
Reducing Potential Liability When Snow Plowing
Snow plowing demands you and your employees are working in adverse conditions, and the job itself leaves the company open for liability. Before winter descends — and throughout the season — it’s essential to reduce potential liability and protect your assets and employees. The following highlighted aspects can minimize risk and improve safety and performance…. [Read More]
Preventing Landscaping Equipment Theft
The business’s nature means landscaping companies often have a considerable amount of essential, high-value equipment — large equipment designed to be pushed or wheeled and smaller landscaping equipment that is easy to carry. Which, unfortunately, means the landscaping business is a prime target for theft. You can minimize the risk of loss — both in… [Read More]
Best Practices for Effectively Growing Your Landscaping Business
No one starts a business to be mediocre. Most people strive for profitability and a solid reputation, but it isn’t something that comes overnight or without hard work and dedication. Building and expanding a landscaping business isn’t an easy task, but knowing the best practices to follow when growing a landscaping business reduces the growing… [Read More]
Preparing Your Truck For Plowing
As winter inches closer and closer to making an appearance, now is the time to make sure your plow and truck are in tip-top shape for the season. A day or two spent on maintenance in nice weather will significantly reduce the chance of breakdowns that leave you stranded — and not making money —… [Read More]
Green Industry & Construction Cyber-Risk: Protect Your Clients From Cyber Threats
The world of Landscapers, Construction Contractors & Nurseries is continually shifting and evolving, especially during this challenging time. As work becomes more reliant on technology, and exposure grows online, so too does the risk of cyber-attacks. Green industry businesses and construction contractors regularly handle their clients’ personal information, project data, financial data, and so much… [Read More]
The Ultimate Guide to Landscaping Equipment Management
For landscapers, work begins long before they arrive on a job site and continues well past when their on-site tasks are completed. Why is that? It’s because these professionals rely on complicated, expensive and invaluable landscaping equipment. Here are some pointers for landscaping equipment management, from safeguarding large stores of equipment to managing individual pieces… [Read More]
Upselling Lawn Care Services: How To Expand Your Hydroseeding Customer Base
Landscape contractors are constantly on the lookout for new planting techniques, erosion control methods and add-on lawn care services that can help their businesses grow. While hydroseeding is by no means a recent innovation, its rising popularity represents a profitable opportunity for landscapers, maintenance contractors and other companies in the lawn care industry. But to… [Read More]
Lawn Maintenance 101: Managing Grass Diseases
Now that spring has finally arrived, landscape contractors across the country are gearing up to start their lawn maintenance routines. Between laying down new turf grass, spreading fertilizer and setting a mowing schedule, there’s a lot that goes into managing a healthy yard. In fact, keeping up with lawn maintenance is one of the best… [Read More]
Landscape Edging: Keeping Pedestrians Safe on a Job
Lawn care professionals use high-tech tools and large mowers with sharp blades. This makes the job not just riskier for them, but also those around them, particularly during landscape edging jobs. During any job, it’s important for both landscapers and nearby pedestrians to be aware of each other in order to stay safe. A few… [Read More]