A striped lawn at golden hour in front of a house in Essex County

About us

One truck, and one lawn nobody wanted.

That was 2016. The lawn was on Claremont Avenue in Montclair, and three companies had already quit on it.

The short version

We took the long way. It shows.

Sunday Lawn Co. started with a used walk-behind, a Tacoma with 190,000 miles on it, and one customer who mostly wanted to prove a point. That lawn took two full seasons to bring back — soil test, lime, aeration, two rounds of overseeding, and a lot of patience in the second August. The neighbors watched the whole thing happen from their porches. By the third spring we had eleven houses on that street.

Before any of it, our founder spent nine years on golf course crews, mostly on fairways. Nobody on a course accepts “it was a bad year for grass” as an explanation, and that’s the standard that came with us. We test before we treat. We spot-spray instead of blanketing a property. And we tell people when they can skip something — the aeration you don’t need this fall is the reason you call us in the spring.

Ten seasons in, we still run one route at a time. We’d rather turn down four houses in November than show up at the fifth one in July with a crew that’s already behind.

“Anybody can make a lawn look good in May. We’re in it for what it looks like the third week of August, when nobody else’s does.” Ray Delgado, founder
2016
First season

One mower, one street, one very skeptical customer.

240
Lawns on program

Capped on purpose. We add routes, not stops.

19
Towns served

All of it inside a twenty-minute drive of the shop.

94%
Renewed last year

The other 6% mostly moved out of the county.

How we work

Four rules we don’t bend.

01

One crew, one route

The same two people are on your property all season. They know where the sprinkler heads are, which gate sticks, and what the back corner did last August.

02

Test, then treat

Nothing goes down because it’s on a calendar somewhere. The soil sheet decides what gets spread, how much, and when.

03

Rain moves the day, not the week

We work in weather most people would cancel in. When a storm does push us, you get a text before you notice we’re not there.

04

We’ll talk you out of things

If the lawn doesn’t need aeration this fall, we say so and it comes off the invoice. It costs us a line item and buys us the next ten years.

The crew

Three people you’ll actually meet.

Ray Delgado

Founder & route lead

Nine years on golf course crews before this, most of them on fairways. Reads a lawn from the truck before the door is open, and is usually right.

Marisol Ortega

Agronomy & applications

Licensed applicator, and the reason nothing gets sprayed on a hunch. Every soil test on the route crosses this desk before a product is ordered.

Kevin Boone

Crew lead, Tuesday–Thursday

Sharpens blades every single week and will explain, at length, why stripes are a cutting technique and not a gimmick. Right about that, too.

Licensed, insured, local

Come see it on your own lawn.

We walk the property, pull a soil sample, and send back a plan with real numbers — usually within two days. No contract, and nothing gets spread before you’ve read the sheet.

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  • New Jersey commercial pesticide applicator, license 26635B
  • Fully insured, $2M general liability
  • Rutgers Turfgrass short course, 2014 and 2019
  • Member, New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association
  • Shop and yard in Montclair, trucks out by 6:40am