Largest Chemical Lawn Company Suffers Massive Losses in 2012 ...

[caption id="attachment_5374" align="alignleft" width="540"] Yesterday a truck for a local organic lawn care company showed up to apply product to our neighbor's yard.[/caption] As I've noted here before, we moved to a new neighborhood last year. We have since cringed when lawn after lawn is sprayed with toxic pesticides to kill the weeds and sprinkler systems go off daily to keep the sidewalk and roadway s ...

[caption id="attachment_4245" align="alignleft" width="540" caption="Can you name all the "weeds" in this photo?"][/caption] I mowed the lawn. Or, I should say, I prepared to mow the lawn. I should begin by telling you that I enjoy mowing; I always have, ever since we upgraded from the hellaciously heavy wood and steel reel mower when I was 9 and I was able to push our new gasoline-powered mower all across ...

[caption id="attachment_4240" align="alignleft" width="540" caption="The ConsumerAffairs.com web site features hundreds of pages of complaints about TruGreen (ChemLawn) lawn care."][/caption] In a surprisingly candid interview with his hometown newspaper, the Memphis Daily News, the CEO of ServiceMaster offered up yet another scathing commentary on the performance of TruGreen, the company formerly known as ...