lawn care specialists: does “putting in a lawn” include fertilizer and mulch?

Traveler asked: I was given an estimate from a local “lawn care specialist” to put in a lawn: spreading 20 yards of top soil and planting seed over and area that is 1/10th of an acre for $800.00. Just before putting the seed down he told me he forgot to add fertilizer and hay for mulch. He insisted that at the very least I need the hay which will cost and additional $200.00 and fertilizer would be “a bit more”. I assumed when he gave me an estimate to put a lawn over a bare already … [Read more...]