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Lawn Care Flyer Ideas, Wording and Examples by Season

A lawn care flyer should name the service and its season, a starting price tied to lot size such as "Weekly mowing from $40 for lots under 1/4 acre", the streets or ZIP codes you cover, your first open date and one way to book. Make a new one each season, since spring cleanup, weekly mowing and fall leaf removal each start at a different time.

Examples made with Toybox

A lawn care flyer gets taped to a hardware store corkboard, left on porches along a mowing route, and posted in the neighborhood group before each season starts. The homeowner reading it wants a price, a start date and proof that you cover their street. This page has a checklist, seasonal wording from spring cleanup to snow removal, a teen mowing version, what to say about weed control, yard sign sizes, and a walkthrough in Flyer Maker. The small business flyer hub covers other trades.

What to put on your lawn care flyer

Get the details down first, in the order a homeowner scans them:

Must have

  1. The service and the season. "Weekly Mowing, April to October" tells a reader more than "Lawn Services".
  2. A starting price with the lot size. "From $40 a cut for lots under 1/4 acre." Then say how bigger yards are priced: "Larger lots quoted on site."
  3. What one visit includes. Mow, edge the walks, string-trim around beds and fences, blow clippings off the driveway.
  4. How often, and for how long. Weekly or every other week, a season plan or pay per cut.
  5. Your service area. Subdivision names, street names or ZIP codes.
  6. Your first open date. "Season starts Saturday, April 3." A date gives someone a reason to book this week.
  7. One way to book. A cell number you answer by text, or a QR code for online booking.
  8. Your business name, matching the lettering on your trailer and yard signs.

Optional

  1. Add-ons with prices. Aeration, overseeding, mulch by the yard, hedge trimming, gutter clearing.
  2. A season bundle. "Spring cleanup plus 26 weekly cuts, $1,090."
  3. Payment terms. "Pay per visit by card, or autopay monthly on a season plan."
  4. Insurance and any applicator license, only if you hold them.
  5. A winter line. "Ask about snow removal for your driveway."

Lawn care flyer ideas and wording by season

Each season sells a different job, so each gets its own flyer. All names, prices and dates here are invented.

Spring cleanup

  • Headlines: "Spring Cleanup: Beds, Leaves and First Cut" or "Get the Yard Ready for Spring"
  • Supporting line: "Leaf and debris removal, bed edging and the first mow of the year. From $149, booking March 13 to April 17."
  • Call to action: "Text 555-0126 with your address for a same-week quote."

Weekly mowing

A flyer for lawn mowing service sells reliability, so put the day you're on their street in the headline.

  • Headlines: "Mowed Every Thursday, April to October" or "Weekly Mowing From $40"
  • Supporting line: "Mow, edge, trim and blow. Lots under 1/4 acre. Skip a week anytime with a text."
  • Call to action: "Text 555-0126 to reserve a Thursday spot."

Fall leaves, aeration and fertilizing

Fall flyers sell leaf pickup and lawn repair. In Minnesota, every lawn fertilizing schedule from University of Minnesota Extension includes a September feeding, even the one-application plan for lawns nobody waters, so a September fertilizing line belongs on a fall flyer there. Timing depends on grass and climate, so check your own state's extension service before you print a date.

  • Headlines: "Fall Leaf Cleanup" or "Aerate and Overseed This Fall"
  • Supporting line: "Leaves blown, bagged and hauled away. Core aeration and overseeding from $95."
  • Call to action: "Book by Saturday, November 14: call 555-0126."

Snow removal as a winter add-on

  • Headlines: "Your Lawn Crew Plows Too" or "Driveways Cleared by 7 AM"
  • Supporting line: "Season contracts for driveways and front walks, cleared after every 2 inches of snow."
  • Call to action: "Sign up by Tuesday, December 1 to lock in the season price."

Teens offering yard work

A flyer for yard work from a teenager should read like a handwritten note from next door: first name, age, the jobs, a price for each, and a parent's phone number. The American Academy of Pediatrics advises waiting until age 12 for a walk-behind power mower and age 16 for a riding mower, so match the job list to your age.

  • Headlines: "Theo, 14, Mows Lawns on Oak Court" or "Weekend Yard Help From Your Neighbor"
  • Supporting line: "Mowing $25 a yard, raking $15 an hour, weeding by hand $15 an hour."
  • Call to action: "Text my dad, Marcus, at 555-0184 to set a time."

Landscaping installs

A flyer for landscaping business work, such as new beds, stone paths or shrubs, sells a picture the homeowner can't see yet. Before you quote, you can show them an idea on a photo of their own yard; see AI landscape design from a yard photo.

  • Headlines: "New Beds, Paths and Plantings" or "Spring Planting Installs"
  • Supporting line: "Design visits in March, installs from April. Mulch, edging, shrubs and stone paths."
  • Call to action: "Book a design visit at example.com/maplethrush."

If you also clean gutters or fix fences, the handyman flyer ideas show how to list small jobs with a minimum charge, and the cleaning business flyers cover door hanger sizes that suit a lawn route too.

What to say about weed control on a lawn care flyer

Check your state's rules before a flyer offers weed control. Some states have rules about who can apply weed killer for pay, even the kind sold at the hardware store, so call your state department of agriculture before you print "weed and feed". A teen's flyer should stick to mowing, raking and hand weeding.

University of Minnesota Extension recommends applying fertilizer and weed killer separately and spot-treating scattered weeds, which gives you an honest flyer line: "Fertilizing and weed control as separate visits." If you don't offer spraying, print what you do instead: "Beds hand weeded and mulched."

Lawn care flyer design tips

Keep the green behind the art, not the price. Green type on a green background washes out on a sunny porch. Put the price grid and phone number on a white or cream panel.

Show your own yards, or none. A Photos picture from Flyer Maker is generated, not taken, so a perfect lawn on your flyer isn't one you mowed. Choose Illustration (a mower, a rake, a striped lawn) instead. For a before-and-after of a real job, a Pro plan lets you upload your own after photo to Smart Editor with the headline and price written into the instruction. Never brighten the "before" to flatter the "after".

Name the day you're on their street. "On Oak Court every Thursday" tells a neighbor you're already nearby, and it fills the gaps in your route.

Use a price grid by lot size. Three rows (under 1/4 acre, 1/4 to 1/2 acre, over 1/2 acre) answer the price question before anyone calls.

Add tear-off tabs for hardware store boards. A homeowner who spots your flyer while buying grass seed can take your number home. Request the tabs when you describe the flyer, then confirm each one carries the full phone number.

Stake a sign at finished jobs, with permission. An 18 x 24 inch yard sign left in a customer's lawn for a week after a cleanup shows the neighbors whose work they're looking at.

Lawn care flyer sizes and printing

Lawn businesses print a yard sign, a board flyer and a porch card:

Piece Size Pixels at 300 DPI In Flyer Maker
Yard sign in a customer's lawn 18 x 24 in 5400 x 7200 Tall (3:4), 4K
Hardware store or library board 8.5 x 11 in 2550 x 3300 Tall (3:4), 4K
Porch card 4 x 6 in 1200 x 1800 Tall (3:4), 2K, trimmed

An 18 x 24 inch yard sign is a 3:4 rectangle, the same proportions as Tall, and Vistaprint prints that size on 4 mm corrugated plastic. Vistaprint suggests a dark background for these signs, because bright light can show the printing on the reverse side through the hollow plastic. At 4K, Tall's 2480 x 3312 pixels come to about 138 per inch on the sign. 4over4's resolution guide calls 100 to 150 DPI enough for large-format prints read from a distance, so the sign holds up from the sidewalk. If you mail flyers to a whole route instead, run your design through the size checker in USPS's Every Door Direct Mail tool before you print. The flyer size guide has the rest of the standard sizes.

More lawn care flyer examples as prompts

Spring, winter and an install job, each ready for the flyer description box. Swap the made-up business, prices and phone number for yours.

Spring flyer for Kettlegrass Lawn Care. Headline: "Spring Cleanup: Beds, Leaves and First Cut". Leaf and debris removal, bed edging, fresh mulch available at $65 a yard, and the first mow of the season. From $149 for lots under 1/4 acre. Booking March 13 to April 17. Serving Oak Court, Birch Hill and Quarry Heights. Text 555-0126 with your address for a same-week quote. Fresh green and white design with an illustration of a tidy flower bed and a wheelbarrow.
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Winter flyer for Kettlegrass Lawn Care. Headline: "Your Lawn Crew Plows Too". Season snow removal contracts for driveways and front walks, cleared after every 2 inches of snow, before 7 AM on weekdays. Driveways up to 2 cars $325 for the season. Sign up by Tuesday, December 1. Serving Oak Court, Birch Hill and Quarry Heights. Call 555-0126 to reserve a spot on the route. Dark navy and white design with an illustration of a plowed driveway and falling snow.
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Flyer for Maplethrush Landscaping, 77 Fenwick Road. Headline: "New Beds, Paths and Plantings". Design visits in March, installs from April. Planting beds, stone paths, shrubs, edging and mulch. Design visit $75, credited to any install over $1,500. Open Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM. Book a design visit at example.com/maplethrush or call 555-0139. Elegant sage green and stone gray design with an illustration of a curved stone path between flower beds.
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How to make a lawn care flyer in Flyer Maker

Instead of editing a lawn care flyer template, you type the offer and the details, and Flyer Maker lays out the page.

  1. Paste the full wording into "Describe your flyer" in Flyer Maker. Include the quoted headline, the price grid by lot size, what a visit includes, the start date, the streets you cover and how to book.
  2. Pick a "Size". Tall for yard signs and board flyers, Portrait for neighborhood group posts.
  3. Open "More options". Set Quality to 4K for a yard sign. Business suits the Flyer type, Bold or Modern the Style. Choose "My brand colors" and list both colors in the description ("forest green and cream"), since that setting has no color picker. Pick Illustration for the Pictures.
  4. Put tear-off tabs on board copies by asking for them in your description: "tear-off tabs printed with Kettlegrass 555-0126, lined up along the bottom."
  5. Type your cell number and booking link into "Contact info". Flyer Maker uses only the contact details you type, so read every digit twice before creating the flyer.
  6. Press "Create flyer". A yard sign at 4K currently uses 100 credits, and a 1K version for phones uses 80. The design is ready in about 30 seconds.
  7. Proofread the lot sizes, prices, dates, street names and phone number. Delete any catchy line that wasn't in your description. Use the "Want to change something?" box for a single fix (currently 60 credits at 1K, 70 at 2K, 90 at 4K). For several changes, edit the description and run a new flyer.

Frequently asked questions

What should a lawn mowing flyer include?

A price per cut with the lot size it covers, what each visit includes (mow, edge, trim, blow), how often you come, the streets or ZIP codes you serve, the first date you have open, and a phone number you answer by text. Add your insurance only if you carry it, and name any add-ons such as aeration with their own prices.

How old should a kid be to offer lawn mowing to neighbors?

The American Academy of Pediatrics puts the minimum at 12 for a walk-behind power mower and 16 for a riding mower. A younger child can still offer raking, weeding by hand and bagging leaves. On the flyer, use a first name and a parent's phone number, never the home address.

What size should a lawn care yard sign be?

Use 18 x 24 inches if you design in Flyer Maker. Vistaprint currently sells yard signs in 19 sizes, and 18 x 24 is the larger of the two that share the 3:4 shape of Flyer Maker's Tall size (9 x 12 is the other). At 4K, Tall is 2480 x 3312 pixels, about 138 pixels per inch on the sign, inside the 100 to 150 DPI that 4over4 calls enough for large prints viewed from a distance. Keep it to your name, one service and a phone number.

Can I put lawn care flyers in mailboxes?

Not without postage. Mailboxes are for stamped mail, so leave flyers on porches or in door handles instead. To reach every house on a mowing route by mail, USPS Every Door Direct Mail delivers to all addresses on the carrier routes you choose, currently $0.26 a piece at retail for 200 to 5,000 pieces per ZIP Code per day.

Can I make a lawn care flyer in Spanish?

Yes. Type the Spanish lines into "Describe your flyer", for example "Corte de césped semanal desde $40", and Flyer Maker sets the accents as written. Have a fluent speaker check the wording, and check the prices and phone number yourself. On a two-language flyer, list one service in each language so the text stays large.

How much does it cost to make a lawn care flyer with Toybox AI?

Plan on 100 credits (the current 4K price) for a yard sign, because a sign that size should use the 4K setting. A 1K flyer for phones currently costs 80 credits and a 2K handout 90. That is about $1 or less per design at top-up prices, where 500 credits currently cost $4.99 with no subscription. Sign-up credits (20) won't cover one.

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