Dry weather hurts lawn care businesses

TERRE HAUTE, Ind (WTHI) - Rain sprinkled parts of the Wabash Valley on Monday, but the rain would still not be enough to revive many of the burnt lawns.

Neighborhood after neighborhoods have brown lawns which is changing the way lawn care service providers like Cut and Trim of Terre Haute are doing business.

"After the rainy season stops it is tradition to trim the bushes and lower limbs off the trees," Cut and Trim Incorporation owner Larry Collier said.

The only sign of green are patches of weeds.

"Follow this adage, don't be mean leave it green. This year we are not going to be able to go by that we just going to have to keep the top of the weeds cut off, " Collier said.

Meanwhile Collier’s lawn mower will sit up, while he plucks away at weeds, just hoping for many days of rain in the near future.

Collier said homeowners won't be able to water their lawn enough during these dry weeks, unless they have an underground water system. He said too much of the chlorine in treated water will actually stunt the grass from growing.