Article: Lawn-mowing tips will leave your grass and neighbors green

You know the type - mows each week without fail, crouching over every inch of property, quixotically watering and fertilizing and, always, pulling weeds.

"I'm a perfectionist," says Nick Fontana, operator of a new local lawn-mowing service, Fontana Lawn and Landscaping (he's listed in the Yellow Pages under a former name, C&S Lawn and Landscape). "It may take me a little longer, but when you zip through a job you almost always look back and find that you screwed something up severely because you were just zzzzt getting it done."

The 24-year-old's meticulous nature has its roots in Nebraska, where at 8 years old, Mr. Fontana started mowing lawns for his father's business.

"My dad's boss was ...

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