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Elmer's Lawn Maintenance is a landscaping crew led by Elmer Mata, doing everything from routine mowing to sod installs, irrigation, and hardscape work like driveways and patios. The company's own site puts them at five years in the trade, though its Google, Angi, and HomeAdvisor reviews actually stretch back to 2019. The most specific story in the reviews is from October 2025: a homeowner who'd just bought a new house found the yard full of stone dust and dyed woodchips a developer had dumped under dead sod, and said Elmer was straightforward about what it would take to fix it. Reviewers from 2020 through 2024 describe similar hands-on jobs — a fall aeration and overseeding timed to the weather so the new grass would take, a full sod install, and a driveway and walkway project where Elmer helped pick the brick. Nearly every review across four platforms and six years is five stars, and the same details keep coming up: on time, responsive, fair pricing, and Elmer or his crew (including a worker named Freddy) sticking around to see a project through rather than rushing off. For lawn care, sod work, or a hardscape project like a driveway or patio, Elmer's is a solid call — ask about scheduling around weather-sensitive jobs like fall overseeding, since that timing came up as something Elmer paid close attention to.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Elmer's Lawn Maintenance. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Estimated range
$50 – $70
Typical landscaping service around $60
I hired Elmer and his crew to rehabilitate my landscaping after I purchased a new home. (I discovered that the developer filled a lot of the yard with stone dust, so the sod died. Also, the developer dumped a lot of dyed woodchips in the yard.) Elmer was very honest about the strengths and weaknesses about the existing landscaping. He and his crew removed the stone dust and replaced it with rich soil. They reseeded the yard and provided me with instructions about how to maintain the seeds so they would germinate. They replaced the bad dyed woodchips with more natural mulch, and they replaced dead plantings with live plantings that were more suited to the site. Overall, they did a great job. I would definitely hire them again for any future landscaping.
Very polite professional & responsive , quickly showed me the type of product he uses & got the job done after a quick review of the yard. Will def use again.
Elmer was great to work with. On time, texted when he was on his way to let me know and did excellent work.
Quick service appointment ð Had lawn plug aerated, fertilized, and overseeded. Worker was very professional, answered and addressed any questions or concerns that I might have. Was important that Fall overseeing be done at a particular time so as not too warm or to cold so lawn had time to be established before late fall Very pleased, would use them again
Quick service appointment — Had lawn plug aerated, fertilized, and overseeded. Worker was very professional, answered and addressed any questions or concerns that I might have. Was important that Fall overseeing be done at a particular time so as not too warm or to cold so lawn had time to be established before late fall Very pleased, would use them again
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