Lawn Care in Bradfordville, FL

Bradfordville has been settled ground for a long time. The community and Bradfordville Road both carry the name of Dr. Edward Bradford, a North Carolina physician who reached Tallahassee in 1832 and was followed south by his brothers Thomas, Henry and Richard. Pisgah Methodist Church, founded in 1830, still stands nearby and ranks among the oldest in the county. Well before any of the current subdivisions were drawn up, this was farm country in the hills northeast of town.

The land has changed jobs about three times since then. It grew cotton through the middle of the nineteenth century, then a good deal of the Red Hills north of Tallahassee turned into quail hunting country around the turn of the twentieth, and over the past few decades it has filled in with houses instead. Killearn Lakes went in as a large planned community, the roads got paved, and Bradfordville settled into what it is now, a place people live while they commute into Tallahassee for work. The one thing that survived every version of it is the tree cover. Pine and oak still shade most of these lots, and Lake Iamonia is not far off.

For a lawn, the useful part of that history is the soil and the shade. This is the clay end of Leon County, so the ground holds water longer than the sandy lots closer to town, it compacts under repeated traffic, and it will rut if it gets mowed while it is still soft. The pine canopy that outlasted every other use of this land drops needles all year, which keeps the ground acidic and steals light from whatever turf is trying to grow underneath. Lots out here also tend to run larger than they do in town, which is why lawn mowing in Bradfordville is mostly a question of covering ground efficiently without scalping the high spots. Good lawn care in Bradfordville starts by matching the grass and the cutting height to how much light the property actually gets, rather than to what worked at a house across the county.