Signs for every season
- Spring: now booking, spring cleanups, aeration and overseeding, newly seeded (please keep off).
- Summer: lawn care by, weekly mowing, irrigation, hardscape and landscape design projects.
- Fall and winter: fall cleanups, holiday lighting, snow removal.
- At the yard: mulch for sale, topsoil and stone, with the price per cubic yard.
Keep the service list to three items. A sign that lists eight services reads as none of them.
Pesticide application markers
New York's commercial lawn application marker (6 NYCRR 325.40) is its own thing: yellow, rigid, at least 4 by 5 inches, with black letters at least 3/8 inch tall, the words PESTICIDE APPLICATION, DO NOT ENTER and DO NOT REMOVE SIGN FOR 24 HOURS, a warning symbol at least 1.5 inches across, and the application date and time. The only extras allowed on the front are the applicator's name and phone. Ulster County, one of the counties that adopted neighbor notification, also asks homeowners treating their own lawns to post markers in English and Spanish; there is a bilingual template for that.
Licenses on landscaping signs
Westchester and Nassau treat landscaping as home improvement, so a license number belongs on your signs there. Trucks over 10,000 pounds hauling equipment need a USDOT number on both doors, which a truck magnet can carry.