GreenPal Lawn Care Business Growth Show
Jun 14, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
How do you grow a lawn care business from a single push mower to nearly 100 recurring customers? In this episode of the GreenPal Lawn Care Business Growth Show, Gene Caballero interviews Lucas…
Gene CaballeroHost
And so I know, I think you kind of touched base a little bit about this earlier, but what did your business kind of look like when it first got started? Was it just...
was the very beginning it was a push mower no doubt i was a push mower and then at the end of the season and when i signed up for green pal and i got those 30 clients i was like oh this is never gonna work so i did the thing that probably a lot of people do and kind of what i call f around and find out like I tried some residential equipment, right? So I got an old
And, you know, very quickly realized that like, I mean, in my opinion, you just, there's no way you can do this work.
Even commercial equipment breaks down all the time, you know, top of the, it's just part of it.
I think it's one of the hard things for some people is I've learned to become handy and mechanical, but if I was taken to mechanic all the time, it's a lot.
Now I have three commercial zero turns because I pretty much like to run with two on the trailer all the time.
And then as I was saying, if you don't have a backup for everything, I mean, literally everything, it'll bite you.

And so I know, I think you kind of touched base a little bit about this earlier, but what did your business kind of look like when it first got started? Was it just...
was the very beginning it was a push mower no doubt i was a push mower and then at the end of the season and when i signed up for green pal and i got those 30 clients i was like oh this is never gonna work so i did the thing that probably a lot of people do and kind of what i call f around and find out like I tried some residential equipment, right? So I got an old
And, you know, very quickly realized that like, I mean, in my opinion, you just, there's no way you can do this work.
Even commercial equipment breaks down all the time, you know, top of the, it's just part of it.
I think it's one of the hard things for some people is I've learned to become handy and mechanical, but if I was taken to mechanic all the time, it's a lot.
Now I have three commercial zero turns because I pretty much like to run with two on the trailer all the time.
And then as I was saying, if you don't have a backup for everything, I mean, literally everything, it'll bite you.
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