Most lawn companies make you pick a lane. Sign an annual agreement, or find somebody else. We do it both ways, because not every property needs the same thing and not every homeowner wants the same commitment.
Capstone Landscapes mows and maintains residential and commercial properties across Wake Forest. Rick Linder has been in the landscaping business more than 25 years, and we’re based just up the road in Rolesville, so this is home turf. Call or text (919) 671-7296 for a free estimate.
Two ways to work with us
An annual program. One agreement covers the whole year and everything in it: mowing, edging, trimming, blowing, bed maintenance, mulch, pruning, fertilization and weed control, aeration and overseeding in the fall, leaf cleanup, and irrigation startup and shutdown. You get a set schedule and a predictable cost, and you stop thinking about your yard. This is the right fit for people who want it handled, and for commercial properties and HOAs that need the grounds to look the same every week without anyone managing it.
No contract, call us when you need us. Weekly or biweekly mowing with nothing signed, or one-off work off our à la carte list: a cleanup, a mulch job, pruning, a leaf removal before the holidays. You’re not locked into anything and you’re not paying for months you don’t need. Plenty of people mow their own grass in summer and call us for spring cleanup and fall leaves. That’s fine by us.
You can also start one way and move to the other. Most of our annual customers started with a single job.
What a maintenance visit includes
- Mowing all turf at the correct height for the season and the grass type
- String trimming around beds, trees, fences, and hardscape
- Edging walks, drives, and bed lines for a clean break between lawn and mulch
- Blowing every hard surface clean before we leave
- Picking up sticks, limbs, and debris on the way through
Bed work, pruning, mulch, chemical applications, and seasonal cleanups are either part of your annual program or scheduled separately, whichever way you’re set up.
Mowing height matters more than people think
The single most common thing we see on a struggling Wake Forest lawn is that it’s been cut too short. Tall fescue in the Triangle should be at three and a half inches through June, July, and August, and that’s not a preference, it’s what NC State Extension recommends for the Piedmont.
Taller grass shades its own root zone, holds moisture, and crowds out crabgrass before it germinates. Scalped grass bakes, dries out, and hands the bare ground to weeds. If your lawn goes brown and thin every July and the weeds take over in August, mowing height is usually part of the story.
We also keep blades sharp. A dull blade tears the leaf instead of cutting it, which leaves a ragged white edge across the whole lawn and opens the plant up to disease. It’s a small thing that shows up immediately.
The Wake Forest lawn year
A fescue lawn here runs on a schedule, and most of what determines how it looks in July gets decided months earlier.
Late winter. Pre-emergent goes down around early March, before soil temperatures hit the point where crabgrass germinates. Miss this window and you spend the summer pulling weeds you could have prevented. Dormant pruning happens now too.
Spring. Cleanup, bed edging, fresh mulch, and the first mows. Mowing starts weekly once growth takes off.
Summer. Raise the deck and leave it there. Brown patch shows up in June once nights stop cooling off, and July and August are about keeping the lawn alive rather than pushing it to grow. This is the wrong time to fertilize fescue heavily or to reseed.
Fall. The important season. Aeration and overseeding in mid-September, nitrogen in September and again in November, and leaf cleanup from October through December.
Commercial and HOA properties
We maintain commercial grounds and common areas alongside residential work. Same crew, same standard. For a property manager or an HOA board the annual program is usually the right structure, because it fixes the cost for the year and means nobody has to call us to get anything done. Entrances, islands, common turf, bed maintenance, seasonal color, and cleanup all sit inside one schedule.
Get a free estimate
Call or text (919) 671-7296 or email capstonelandscaping@gmail.com. Tell us whether you want it handled all year or just want somebody to show up and mow, and we’ll price it that way.
We serve Wake Forest, Rolesville, North Raleigh, Youngsville, Wendell, Zebulon, Knightdale, and Garner.
Common questions
Do I have to sign a contract?
No. We offer annual programs for people who want everything covered on a set schedule, and we also mow with nothing signed. Your choice.
Weekly or every other week?
Weekly through the growing season is what keeps a lawn looking right, because the rule is never to remove more than a third of the blade in one cut. Biweekly works in the shoulder seasons and on slower-growing lawns. We’ll tell you honestly which one your property needs.
Do you bag the clippings?
Usually not, and that’s on purpose. Clippings break down fast and return nitrogen to the lawn. We bag when the grass is too long or too wet to leave a clean finish.
What happens if it rains on my day?
We shift the schedule and get to you as soon as the lawn is dry enough to cut without tearing it up. Mowing saturated ground does more harm than waiting a day.
My yard is badly overgrown. Will you still take it?
Yes. An overgrown lawn takes an initial cleanup cut that’s priced separately from regular service, and sometimes two passes. After that it goes on the normal schedule.