Lawn and landscape, 2027 season
The same ground,
the other six months.
Terrano is a grounds company, not a snow company that disappears in April. Mowing, fertilizer, cleanups and beds from May 1, 2027 to October 31, 2027 — same crew, same photo after every visit.
Sign both seasons together
Twelve months of coverage for about $179–$188 a month
Snow and ice, November to April
$188/mo$209
Complete plan
Lawn and landscape, May to October
$179/mo$199
Complete plan
10% off both, and the rate is locked for 24 months — so your second winter and second summer cost what your first ones did. One company, one contact, one number in your calendar every month of the year.
Summer plans
Three plans, the same structure as winter. Every plan mows, trims, edges and blows down. What changes is how often we come and how much of the rest of the yard we look after.
| Standard lot, up to 4,000 sq ft of turf | Essential $129/mo | Complete Most lawns $199/mo | Premium $299/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| On every plan | |||
| Mowing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| String trimming around beds and fences | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edging along walks and driveway | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Blow-down of walks, drive and patio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Clippings mulched back into the lawn | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Photo after every visit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| How often we come | |||
| Mowing cycle | Every 10 days | Weekly | Weekly |
| Visits across the seasonWeather dependent | About 16 | About 22 | About 22 |
| Included at this tier | |||
| Spring cleanup | — | Yes | Yes |
| Fall cleanup and leaf removal | — | Yes | Yes |
| Fertilizer applications | — | 3 | 5 |
| Core aeration | — | — | Yes |
| Garden beds weeded and edged | — | — | Yes |
| Broadleaf weed control | — | — | Yes |
| Choose Essential | Choose Complete | Choose Premium | |
Season runs May 1, 2027 to October 31, 2027, billed as 6 equal monthly payments, due the 1st.
Lot size and add-ons
Turf area does for a summer quote what driveway size does for a winter one. Measured at quote, never changed mid-season.
Lot size and access
Added to your monthly price. Turf area is measured from satellite at quote and confirmed on site.
- Standard lot, up to 4,000 sq ft of turf
- Included
- Large lot, 4,000 to 7,000 sq ft
- +$40/mo
- Extra large, 7,000 to 12,000 sq ft
- +$90/mo
- Over 12,000 sq ft or acreage
- Quoted
- Corner lot or extra boulevard frontage
- +$25/mo
- Steep or terraced, push mow only
- +$35/mo
- Gate under 36 inches, no ride-on access
- +$30/mo
Monthly add-ons
Added to your monthly price and carried for the whole season, the same as your plan.
- Garden beds weeded and edged
- $45/mo
- Hedge and shrub trimming
- $40/mo
- Pet waste pickup on every visit
- $30/mo
- Clippings bagged and hauled awayInstead of mulching
- $35/mo
- Second property, same street
- 10% off both
One-time services
Booked when you want them. Nothing here touches your monthly price.
- Core aeration
- $120 one time
- Power raking and dethatching
- $150 one time
- Overseeding
- $175 one time
- Spring cleanup
- $150 to $250 one time
- Fall cleanup and leaf removal
- $150 to $250 one time
- Irrigation start-up
- $120 one time
- Irrigation blowout
- $110 one time
- Mulch refresh
- Quoted
- Overgrown first cutGrass past about 5 inches
- $40 to $80 on top
Per visit, no contract
Serviced after every contract customer, the same as winter.
- Standard lot, mow, trim, edge and blow
- $65 per visit
- Large lot
- $85 per visit
- Extra large lot
- $120 per visit
- One-off cleanup
- Quoted
Why lawns are different here
A lawn here is not a lawn in Vancouver or Toronto. Alkaline clay, chinook freeze-thaw and a five-month season change what works, and most of what goes wrong on Calgary lawns traces back to one of four things.
Alkaline clay, pH 7.5 to 8.5
Calgary soil is heavy, compacts hard, and sits well above neutral. That alkalinity locks up iron, which is why so many lawns here go yellow between the veins in midsummer while the owner adds more nitrogen and wonders why nothing changes. The answer is usually iron, not feed.
Chinooks, not steady winter
A chinook can lift temperatures 15 to 20 degrees in a few hours and drop them again the same night. Dormant turf goes through freeze-thaw cycles all winter, and the crown damage shows up as thin, slow patches in May that get blamed on the spring rather than on January.
A growing season of about five months
May through September, and cool at that — average summer temperatures around 15 degrees mean grass grows more slowly here than almost anywhere else in the country. There is no margin for a missed feed or a late cleanup. The window simply is not long enough to recover.
Compaction is the default state
Clay plus foot traffic plus a winter of snow load leaves soil that water runs off rather than into. On Calgary lawns core aeration is not a nice-to-have upgrade — it is the single highest-value thing anyone does to a lawn here all year.
Why one company matters
Your spring lawn is decided in January
Snow piled in the same shaded corner all winter melts last, stays wet longest, and comes up as grey matted snow mold in May. Snow stacked against a driveway edge takes the salt with it and leaves a dead strip. Both are turf problems created by a snow decision — and when your snow contractor and your landscaper are different companies, neither one owns it.
We stack your snow knowing what is underneath it and who has to fix it in May. That is not a sales line, it is just what happens when the same crew does both jobs.
See the winter sideWhat happens, month by month
Six months, and every one of them has a job. In a season this short there is no room to catch up on a missed month, which is why the schedule is fixed rather than reactive.
May
Wake it up
Spring cleanup, first cuts, snow mold assessment
Matted grey or pink patches under where snow sat longest get raked open so air and light reach the crown. Left alone they thin out and fill with weeds by July.
June
Push growth
Weekly mowing, first fertilizer, core aeration
The strongest growth window of the Calgary year. Aerating into damp June soil pulls proper cores out of clay instead of bouncing off it.
July
Protect against stress
Weekly mowing at a raised height, iron if the lawn is chlorotic
Cutting height goes up, not down. Taller blades shade the soil and slow evaporation, and scalping a lawn in July heat is the most common way Calgary homeowners damage their own turf.
August
Hold the line
Weekly mowing, second fertilizer, weed monitoring
Thin patches invite the annual grasses that colonise gaps. Feeding through August keeps density up so there is nowhere for them to establish.
September
The important month
Fall fertilizer, overseeding, aeration if it was not done in June
The most valuable feed of the year. Growth has slowed above ground but roots are still working, and what goes down now decides what comes up in May.
October
Set it up for winter
Final cut slightly lower, fall cleanup, leaves off the lawn
Long grass under snow mats down and grows mold. Leaves left on turf smother it. The last cut of the year does more for a spring lawn than the first one does.
How we mow
Mowing looks like the simple part and is where most lawns are quietly damaged. This is the standard every Terrano cut is held to.
Cut at 6 to 8 cm through the season
The right height for the Kentucky bluegrass that most Calgary lawns are built on. Higher in July heat, lower for the final cut in October.
Never more than a third of the blade
Taking more shocks the plant and exposes the crown. If a lawn has got away from us after rain, we take it down across two visits rather than one.
Clippings mulched back in
Free fertilizer, better moisture retention and fewer weeds. We bag only when the lawn is diseased, seeding, or you ask us to.
Blades sharpened weekly
A dull blade tears rather than cuts, and torn tips brown off within a day. If a lawn looks scorched two days after a mow, that is why.
Not mowed wet, not mowed at midday
Wet grass tears and clumps, and cutting in full afternoon heat stresses turf that is already working hard in this climate.
Under the 15 cm bylaw, always
Calgary's Community Standards Bylaw requires grass on private property to stay below 15 cm. On a weekly cycle you are never close to it.
What goes wrong on Calgary lawns
Five things we see on Calgary lawns constantly, what actually causes them, and what fixes them. If you recognise one of these, you do not necessarily need us — you need the right response.
| What you see | What it is | What fixes it |
|---|---|---|
| Grey or pink matted patches in May | Snow mold, under wherever snow sat longest and melted last. | Rake the patch open early so it dries and the crown gets light. Prevention is a lower final cut in October and not letting snow pile in the same shaded spot all winter. |
| Yellow lawn that does not respond to feeding | Iron chlorosis, caused by alkaline soil locking iron away from the plant. | Iron, not more nitrogen. Adding nitrogen to a chlorotic lawn pushes growth the plant cannot support and usually makes it look worse. |
| Water pooling or running straight off | Compacted clay. Extremely common and usually years in the making. | Core aeration, with plugs pulled and left to break down. Spike aerators do almost nothing in Calgary clay — they compress the walls of the hole they make. |
| Thin, slow patches that never quite recover | Winterkill from chinook freeze-thaw, usually on south and west exposures. | Overseed in September rather than spring. Seed put down in May competes with everything else for a short season and rarely wins. |
| A dead strip along the driveway or sidewalk | Salt and plow damage from winter, on the edge that takes the stacked snow. | Flush in early spring, repair in June. Better still, stack the snow somewhere else in the first place — which is a decision made in January by whoever clears your driveway. |
Booking for spring starts in February
Summer routes are built in late winter and fill by March. Put your address down now and we will quote you in February, before we open to anyone else — no deposit, no commitment, and you can walk away when you see the number.
Snow customers are quoted first. That is the whole point of the bundle: you are already on the route.
Already thinking about winter?
The snow season starts November 1, 2026 and founding customer pricing closes October 15. Sign winter now and the summer bundle is there when you want it.
Winter plans and pricing