Len Evans has lived almost 60 years in a 1950s-style ranch house surrounded by a thick green lawn atop a hill in Burlington, Massachusetts. He’s a man obsessed with grass, having spent a lifetime puttering around his yard and garden.
But today, there’s an ugly patch of dirt and weeds out front and a dispirited man inside.
Evans blames the mess on Lawn Dawg, the lawn service that began treating his grass with fertilizer and weed killer last year. The company says it’s not at fault, pointing to a description of the lawn as having “bare spots, compacted soil, rocky soil” and weeds when technicians first arrived.
Lots of lawns got badly bruised during last summer’s extreme heat and drought. I don’t know how much Lawn Dawg is to blame for the Evans disaster area, if at all.
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