Groundhog Landscaping Review

Asked for them to provide a certificate of insurance before starting a pest control service. They refused to show proof of insurance. Buyer beware.

Very pleased with these guys actually a lady supervisor. They did a thorough spring cleanup for a reasonable price. My yard was a disaster and they made it beautiful. Calling them again this year.

Came to my house yesterday. After 3 inches of rain and did Fertilizer treatment. This is what they did. Called and complained and came back put a little seed over it. What a joke. Easily can tell it s new grass with hay over the top.

Groundhog has to be one of the worst contractors for snow removal i have ever seen. Not a single path till the very end of storms

Asked for a quote from to perform fertilization and weed treatment on my lawns.
They said there very quote was based on the area of my lawns at 40000sq ft.
I didn't believe it was that large an area.

I then got a quote from True Green who did a GPS survey of my lawns area and they came up with 21000 sq ft.
I told Groundhog about it and they refused to change their estimate.

True Green's cost was about 1/3 of Groundhog for the same service.
BUYER BEWARE!!!

On 95 and 3 Groundhog dump trucks overloaded with gravel, spewing rocks all of the highway. Very dangerous work practice, appreciate the dents in my car. Thanks!

Hired Groundhog to do a fall cleanup at my new home in Nashua. Came home the next day and the lawn looked EXACTLY the same.

Was planning to hire them for my regular lawn work but will definitely never be using them again.

Especially after I talked to them and told them the lawn is full of leaves, pine needles and sticks and they told me there is nothing they can do.

Very poor customer service and work. Company seems completely disorganized.

This is the second time we used this company. Very impressed with the friendliness, quick response and pricing of their services. This will be our go to landscaping company from this point on.

Just had Groundhog come out to evaluate my sprinkler system. Yes, I know, it s late in the season but we have had so much rain in NH this season! Now the heat wave begins and, luckily they had an appointment available that I could slide into within the week. Ray arrived promptly at the 7:15AM scheduled appointment time. He was finished in less than 2 hours, would have been less than that if his co-worker didn t borrow his much needed shovel. LOL

Was nice to see a familiar face as he had installed the original system ~ 10 years ago. He accessed, readjusted / replaced heads and did some minor brush maintenance needed for the system to effectively cover the needed areas. He also evaluated the zone coverage and noticed that one zone was no longer needed since the removal of a pool several years ago. He just killed two birds with one stone , 1) saved me a little money by turning off that zone and 2) saving water for the environment. Rock on Ray! He then programmed the system to be efficient and only water on my odd days at the preferred watering time of day (late evening). Ray is really experienced and really treats your property like his own.

Unfortunately, we switched to another person to save some money for several years, but he actually did more harm than good, and charged us for work he did not do. This was all explained in detail by Ray so I understood the correct way of doing things and how I was previously taken advantage of. Lesson learned the hard way, through the wallet!

All that being stated, I am so glad to have Groundhog back in my life! Their pricing is fair and might be more expensive in some cases, but you really do get what you pay for. Ray is dependable, upfront, provides suggestions and clear expectations, but most of all is HONEST!

BTW~ I have now also added some additional landscaping needs as well for the year.
Thank you so much!

To whom it may concern, I was hesitant to ever use a company to assist with my lawn care but quickly became overwhelmed with yard pests in my lawn. After using groundhog lawn care it has made quite the difference. I no longer fall victim to various tunnels in my lawn or have to worry about grass health on the hottest of days. Would recommend/10

Horrible experience. Tore up my yard, broke my patio, left debri in 4 separate areas at the edge of my property, did not clean up after themselves, left tools in my yard. They left gaps and holes, the poxy started coming up within days, it looks like garbage.... It took 8 months from my deposit to get some patio work done. The foreman talks like used car salesman with no sense of punctuality or common courtesy. Seriously, the whole experience was like watching a bad sitcom.

We got off to a shaky start because of the late date of the first application. For some unknown reason, several others in our neighborhood and on our street received the service weeks before our lawn was done. Regardless, when Shawn Millette arrived to treat the lawn he completely won me over. He was pleasant, positive, and very professional. I could tell that he was truly interested in doing a good job. Our lawn got off to slow start but is now starting to dramatically improve. Shawn told me that he would be caring for my lawn going forward, which makes me very happy.

Thanks for coming and taking care of the property so quick. We strongly appreciate it.

DO NOT do business with this company if you want respectful people to deliver to your home!Showed up with a bad attitude did not want to back up to back yard 11' clearance apparently is not wide enough for a small truck? did not want to wait the three minutes to get more room and left without delivering. the receptionist assured me she would look into the issue and then never called me back. The owner is not available to talk to customers, and the manager is the one with the attitude.their people do not want to deliver to residential apparently not as important as the larger ones. Stay away if you are not looking for 20 yards of material.
-----------update 5/11/2018 For the record Todd the owner did call and try to find out what happened and see if he could make it right this is one positive thing about this experience.

Ordered 40 yards of screened loam. Ordering process was easy. Delivery driver was nice and accommodating with where he dropped the loads. I also appreciated that he was concerned with our kid's hearing when he dropped off his loads and asked us to cover their ears so when the tailgate hit, the noise wouldn't be too loud for them. Loam seems nice and fairly clean too, should work out nicely for my new lawn.

Ordered 10 yards loom came all wet when it was spread out and dried it eas dirt. Grass wont grow

Did some work for me a few years ago which went fine. This fall, contacted them about doing a small job before snow flies. They came out and gave me an estimate which was reasonable. I requested that the estimate be adjusted to include another cubic yard of crushed stone per our discussions when we met to discuss the job. After receiving the quote, I emailed them a simple question about using erosion control blanket vs spreading straw to prevent erosion before the grass took root - it would have taken them 30 seconds to respond to the email. Instead of responding to the question, they sent me another estimate. After that, they completely ignored my repeated emails and phone calls, including an email to the main office and a voicemail to the boss. It appears they didn't want, or have time to do the job before winter and chose to simply ignore my repeated attempts to contact them rather than being up front and telling me they weren't interested in doing the work. Now work needs to be wait until spring and I will be contacting another landscaping company.

Groundhog turned our lawn from dirt and weeds to a beautiful lush lawn.
They are fair priced and professional. I highly recommend this company.

Called to order fill for an area at my home .The listing on their site clearly stated that they had 4"- fill, which I called and specifically ordered. When delivered, the material looked exactly like a pile of loan that I already had. I called to talk to Todd the owner, who was willing to give me more material, but the amount I had ordered was more than I needed for the job. After many back and forth texts, Todd just came out and said there was nothing they were going to do to correct their error. Buyer beware!!

Groundhog consistently charged us for treatment that were only partially completed. They fertilized our front and side lawn in extreme heat killing sections of our lawn that we then had to replant and water. Although they say they stand by their work, they absolutely do NOT stand by their work. Either the employees do not communicate with the owner or the owner just does not care. They take your money, don't provide the services you have paid for, and apply treatments when it works for them. And the customer service woman will argue with you rather than take the information needed to resolve a problem.

This is our first season with Groundhog and we are pleased with the outcome of our lawn despite the severe drought we all have experienced. It appears that the chemicals that were applied to our lawn were abundant, to our surprise. We are very impressed by the service and care that we have received and will recommend Groundhog to others.

Ground Hog Landscape co. Is the worst company I have ever done business with. They are unreliable, non-responsive, and unprofessional. After a year and a half I still can't get them to come back and finish the job they were paid in full to complete. They have scheduled numerous dates to come back and they never show nor do they call and reschedule! Do not do business with Groundhog Landscaping !

Two negative interactions with a company I never have used. First, neighbor redid their lawn using groundhog. Grounhog ruined my lawn in the process allowed all the runoff and dirty from the neighbors new sprinkling system all over our lawn. Today the driver spreading or treating lawns drove all through my newly planted grass to treat the neighbors lawn! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!

We get our mulch from Groundhog every year and this year we had it blown in, which was so amazing! No more crawling around for days in the yard for us! The team was friendly and worked fast. The office staff was just as amazing during the booking process, and my husband and I would both highly recommend them. They came through for us in a pinch!

We needed to terrace our vegetable garden in time to do spring planting. The guys did it in about 2.5 days, on budget as quoted, and not only did a great job, but Dave also made sure we were done by Memorial Day. The beans are sprouting and we are thrilled with our new garden terrace walls and the rains no longer wash out our seed plantings! Thank you.

I can t speak to the other types of work that Groundhog does, but if you re having a new lawn installed, look no further. I ve done the shopping around for you.
Working with Nick to get the estimating and planning done was great. He was the most polite, professional, and accommodating representative of the four companies that quoted the job. I was originally planning to do the back yard this year and the front yard next year, but he urged me to have them do both now, and gave me an excellent price on the job, better than some of the others quoted for just the back half. He also helped me plan out the other projects that would need to be done first and we figured out the timeline so everything worked.
Yesterday, Nick and Kyle showed up early morning to review the job, and Kyle got started. Kyle handled the job from start to finish with excellent attention to detail on some tricky grading corrections and created a subtle swale to help with runoff. At several points he checked in with me to ensure I was happy with the progress he was making fixing up my new yard. Today, he raked out the edges and finished the job with hydroseed application.
If you re bothered by a few bad and mostly nonsensical Google reviews probably made by the type of people that yell at their restaurant servers, or you are on the fence about having a new lawn installed due to cost or complications, take this advice: get over it, and give Groundhog a chance to quote it. I don t write reviews often but these two guys went above and beyond.

They were excellent to work with, their applicator Kevin always called ahead to let us know when he would be at our house.

The lawn looked better than it ever did all season long. Will use them again next year.

We paid $400 to have an area in front of the house edged for mulching.I hate to complain, but we are redoing it ourselves. Disappointed.

Prompt delivery exactly what I wanted will be ordering lots more

2018 was our first year at a new home and with Groundhog. From the first phone call to the final treatment, we were beyond please with the customer service and quality of work. We look forward to another great year with you in 2019. Thank you!

Paid for a spring clean up and they made more of a mess in my yard then when they started. Will never use groundhog landscaping ever again.

Scheduled lawn service was late almost every time compared to schedule on their website. Had to call 3 times to get them to come over and treat for grub control when the Japanese beetles were swarming over my lawn. I had more grub damage this year than any year I treated my lawn myself. I'm not very impressed with them so far.

We hired Groundhog Landscaping to clean up our property and preparing it for new lawn.
They were supposed to smooth a steep slope between two uneven sites by filling out with dirt. Instead of that, they dumped the dirt on top of a perfectly good area of the grass without leveling the two sides. They did a mediocre job in cleaning the rest of property and now I have look into hiring someone else to finish the job.

We have been working with Groundhog for several years now. They have done a wonderful job with our lawn. They are excellent to work with and our to go to for yard work. We have used them for lawn maintenance, fall clean up and tic/mosquito control. We have been very satisfied customers.

Poor customer service for residential snowplowing. Rarely speak to a person when calling on status. Sometimes they come close to 8 hrs after it stops snowing. Not much help.

Their phone people are friendly. I have met the owner and he seems like a decent person. I hired them to do lawn fertilizer treatments for all of the 2020 season. They were timely and came out at all the right intervals, the problem is the technician who applied the fertilizer did not seem able to apply it evenly causing tiger striping (light and dark grass lines). I spoke with them over the winter, about this, and once again they were friendly, but they wanted to charge me about $100 more for the 2021 season despite my concerns. That s not good business. I did not renew and they made no attempt to retain me.

This year i decided to give groundhog landscaping my business for my season fertilization/aeration/over seeding services after doing it myself for a couple years. I have to say, they did an amazing job! They were on schedule every month, their products were of good quality and it showed and their employees were very pleasant and portrayed attention to detail and quality. My grass stayed lush green and weed free all season. Their leave behind notes and recommendation worked perfect. I have to say, I will hire Groundhog for my lawn services again next summer. Great job and Thank You!

They ended up doing more than expected and responded quickly to my questions. We have used them for the past few years and have always been happy with the final result. The workers I met were polite and professional.