Weekly lawn maintenance, on a two-grass lot.

Burnt Hickory Registry isn't a template subdivision. Lots run bigger — half an acre and up in most cases — and the tree cover is real. That means the way we maintain the property has to bend around what your specific lot actually is, not what a checklist says a Kennesaw lawn should be.

Two things follow from that. Most Registry properties run two grass programs on one lot: Bermuda where the sun hits, Fescue where the trees don't let it. And the service visit itself is longer — more mow-line, more edge, more back-yard blow-off — so we quote in person before we schedule, not after we invoice.

Lawn maintenance is what Roots Up does most of the time. Mow, edge, string-trim, blow-off — every week or every other week, on the same crew and the same day, on a monthly package priced per visit. Registry properties see us for this more than any other service, so this section is what the weekly service actually looks like on your lot.

A weekly visit at a Registry property runs longer than the neighborhood-subdivision average because the property is bigger. Crew pulls up and checks the lot for anything new since last week — fallen limbs after a storm, a gate the client added, mulch that shifted after rain. Front yard first: Bermuda cut at 2 inches (the height it wants), string-trimmed edges along the beds and walks, hard edge along the driveway. Back yard next: Fescue cut higher because its deeper roots need it, edges around the deck and any beds under the tree line.

Full property blow-off closes the visit — driveway, walkways, front porch, back deck, any hardscape at the perimeter. Debris hauled out, not left curbside. Two grass programs on one lot means two mow heights in one visit and a different edge line for each — the crew is set up for that. On aeration weeks and overseeding weeks the visit runs longer because we're on-property with additional equipment. On a standard maintenance week, expect the crew for 45 to 75 minutes depending on lot size and detail work.

Cadence is weekly through the warm-season growing months (roughly April into October) and bi-weekly through the shoulder seasons, dropping to as-needed through winter dormancy. Same day of the week every week — Registry owners with dogs, gate codes, or a home office appreciate the predictability. The per-visit rate is set at the in-person estimate, not from photos or a template, so the number reflects your actual acreage, edge footage, and the detail work your specific lot asks for.

Turf care is Roots Up's separate annual program — fertilization, weed control, and liquid aeration — priced $400 to $900 per year depending on lot size and program tier. It is not bundled into the weekly per-visit rate. Registry properties usually run two grass calendars in parallel: Bermuda (or Zoysia) in the sun, Fescue in the shade. UGA Extension publishes separate calendars for each grass type; we follow all three, adjusted for the microclimate on your lot.

Turf calendars we follow: UGA Bermudagrass (Cobb County, PDF) · UGA Tall Fescue (PDF) · UGA Zoysiagrass (PDF).

Project work sits alongside the weekly service. On Registry lots, that most often means mulch refresh under the mature hardwoods — hardwood, pine bark, or pine straw, depending on the beds and the look you want — plus bed refreshes and edging refreshes to keep the lines crisp after a wet spring or a leaf-heavy fall.

Sod work covers patches where the Fescue thinned out under the tree line, dead sections where a limb sat on the lawn too long, and full re-sod for the occasional newer build on the edge of the neighborhood where the builder's original sod never took. Bermuda sod, Zoysia sod, or Fescue sod — we source what actually fits the sun/shade split on your lot rather than what happens to be on the truck.

Every project scope is priced at the in-person estimate, not from photos or a template. We walk the beds, measure the mulch square-footage, look at the drainage, and hand you a fixed number before we schedule. No line-item creep after the work starts.

Landscape design is a plan-first service. We walk the property, gather what you're trying to fix or add — a screening line along the back fence, a new bed under the front picture window, a full front-yard rework that finally makes the elevation read right — and produce a plan you own.

If Roots Up builds it, the design fee credits toward the build. If you'd rather take the plan to another crew or hold it until next spring, it's yours to take — no hard feelings. The plan is what you paid for; the build is a separate decision.

The pattern we see across the neighborhood: three specific moments drive most of the calls we get from Registry owners.

• August, when the Fescue back yard looks fried. July and August are Fescue's brutal months in Georgia. If the back yard is thin, brown, and patchy by then, it's worth a call — we can plan the September aeration + overseed that actually resets it before the window closes in mid-October.
• March, when the Bermuda front hasn't broken dormancy yet. If neighbors' lawns are greening up and yours isn't, there's usually a soil-pH or fertilization gap. A soil test in early March saves a lot of guessing about why.
• October, after leaf drop from Registry's mature hardwoods. Leaf haul, bed refresh with hardwood / pine bark / pine straw, and one final Bermuda cut before dormancy. This visit sets how the property reads for the whole winter.

Lawn maintenance has a $50/visit floor for standard Kennesaw lots — but Registry properties are almost always larger than that baseline. We quote your specific property in person before you commit, so the number is real, not a "starting from" placeholder that jumps after the first visit.

For turf care, sod, mulch, bed renovation, and landscape design, every scope goes through the same in-person fixed-price process. See recent Kennesaw and West Cobb projects →