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What Spring-Green Is Doing In The Winter Months

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winter lawn care Many people think that those who work in lawn care have nothing to do in the winter. In actuality, winter is a very busy time for those who work in the lawn care industry. Some of our southern franchise locations have already started performing applications to control weeds that have germinated and are applying products to prevent new ones from germinating. Granted, the far north franchise locations may not be making any applications, but there is still a good deal of work to get done before the start of their lawn care season.

What Spring-Green is doing during the winter months:

  • Trucks are cleaned up
  • Equipment is refurbished
  • Databases are updated
  • Customer records are reviewed
  • And yes, some vacation time is often enjoyed
Personally, the winter begins my favorite time of year – conducting 17 Professional Development Seminars throughout the US. I try to time the dates of the training seminars with the approximate arrival of spring and warmer weather, which sometimes works and sometimes causes me to endure winter weather storms. I have to say, I do enjoy going south in January when the winter cold is still in full swing in Northern Illinois. 2017 is a special year for me as I will be celebrating 20 years with Spring-Green in March and 39 years in lawn care in February. This will also be the 16th time that I conduct these training seminars. The reason why it is my favorite time of year is that I get to interact with the people who service the lawns and landscapes in their geographic location. There are a few people that have attended the previous 15 seminars, so it is always great to see them again. I also get to meet many new people each year. Training the wonderful people that work at Spring-Green is a true joy. I am always amazed at the talent and dedication demonstrated by the fine men and women who work for Spring-Green. They are a conscientious group who service the lawns and landscapes of their customers. They enjoy learning about not only the technical side of things, like weeds, diseases and insects, but also learning more about new products and equipment. The group discussions we have about best practices to follow when working with customers and learning the best ways to serve them are outstanding. I always come away from these training sessions knowing that there are wonderful people working at Spring-Green.