Lawn Care and Landscaping in Gilbert, Arizona: Costs, Licensed Companies, and When to Hire

We list 18 lawn care and landscaping companies serving Gilbert. Mowing here typically runs $43 to $67 a visit and crews bill about $56 an hour for everything else, on a warm-season calendar that puts seeding and aeration in a narrow window each year.

What lawn care costs in Gilbert

Bands rather than averages, because a real quote depends on lot size, slope, and how far the crew drives.

Typical lawn care service prices in Gilbert, Arizona
Service	Typical price	Unit	What drives the price
Lawn mowing	$43 to $67	per visit	Weekly through the growing season on an average quarter-acre lot.
Edging and trimming	$13 to $20	per visit	Usually bundled into a mowing visit rather than billed alone.
Fertilizer application	$14 to $22	per 1,000 sq ft	Slow-release blend, three to five rounds a year.
Weed control	$9 to $14	per 1,000 sq ft	Pre-emergent in spring, post-emergent as broadleaf weeds show.
Core aeration	$13 to $20	per 1,000 sq ft	Once a year, priced higher on compacted clay soil.
Overseeding	$22 to $34	per 1,000 sq ft	Nearly always quoted together with aeration.
Grub and insect control	$11 to $17	per 1,000 sq ft	One preventive round covers most of the season.
Dethatching	$11 to $17	per 1,000 sq ft	Only needed when thatch is over half an inch thick.

Priced for a city of 267,918 in the Mesa metro.

Compare against national lawn care costs or price your own lawn on the lawn cost estimator.

Services in Gilbert

Where these companies are

When to do the work in Gilbert

Gilbert sits in the Desert Southwest climate region, which runs warm-season lawns. Last frost usually falls January 15-February 15 and first frost December 1-15, and that pair sets every date below.

Grasses that do well here

Bermudagrass
St. Augustinegrass
Zoysiagrass
Buffalograss

Lawn care timing windows for Gilbert
Task	Local window	Why then
Seed, sod, or sprig	Late May through July	Warm-season grass needs soil above 65 degrees to take hold.
Fertilize	April through August	Stop feeding roughly a month before the first expected frost.
Core aerate	May through July	Aerate while the lawn is actively growing so it fills the holes back in.
Pre-emergent for crabgrass	February 1 - February 28	Go by soil temperature: apply before it holds 60 degrees.

Problems local crews deal with most: Extreme heat and drought, alkaline and saline soils, winter dormancy of bermuda (overseed).

Want the exact soil temperature before you book pre-emergent? Check your ZIP on the soil temperature tracker.

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Lawn care in Gilbert: common questions

How much does lawn care cost in Gilbert?

A single mowing visit in Gilbert typically runs $43 to $67 for an average quarter-acre lot, and crews bill around $56 an hour for work outside a routine cut. Treatments are quoted per 1,000 square feet: fertilizer and weed control land in the single-digit to low-teens dollars, while core aeration and overseeding cost more because they are once-a-year jobs. Full-season contracts almost always beat per-visit pricing.

Which lawn care company in Gilbert should I hire?

Compare the attributed Google and Yelp ratings rather than any single score, check the company actually offers the service you need, and get two quotes for the same scope rather than one. For spray work, ask for the company's pesticide applicator licence number directly: Arizona requires one for anyone applying herbicide or insecticide for payment, and we have no public register for this state to check it against for you.

Does a lawn care company need a licence in Arizona?

Yes, for pesticide work. Applying herbicides, insecticides, or fungicides on someone else's property for payment requires a commercial pesticide applicator licence issued by Arizona, and the licence carries a number and an expiry date. Plain mowing and trimming generally do not require that licence, so a company can be perfectly legitimate for mowing and still not be licensed to spray. Ask which one you are hiring for.

When should I hire a lawn care company in Gilbert?

Book before the season starts rather than during it. Gilbert runs warm-season lawns, so the calendar that matters is the timing table on this page: pre-emergent goes down off soil temperature in spring, and the seeding and aeration window is the single busiest stretch of the year for local crews. Calling two to three weeks ahead of a window is the difference between getting your date and getting whatever is left.

Is a lawn care service worth it in Gilbert?

It depends on which jobs you hand over. Mowing is the easiest thing to do yourself and the most expensive thing to buy repeatedly. Pesticide application is the opposite: it is the job where a licensed applicator with calibrated equipment and the right product beats a homeowner with a hose-end sprayer. Many people in Gilbert split it, mowing themselves and buying the treatment rounds.

Lawn Care and Landscaping in Gilbert, Arizona: Costs, Licensed Companies, and When to Hire

What lawn care costs in Gilbert

Services in Gilbert

Lawn care companies in Gilbert

AYAM LAND : Landscaping & Lawn care

Life Turf

Perfect Pitch

Premier Lawn Care LLC and Junk Pickup Services

T’s Turf Care

Turf America & Putter's Edge of AZ

Turf Time AZ

JNK LANDSCAPING AND POOLS

Kiwi Turf Cleaners

Pristine Green LLC

Catalina Landscaping

Platinum Outdoors LLC

Higher Ground Landscaping

The Yard Stylist

JMM Landscaping

Keystone Landscaping of Gilbert

Landscaping Of Gilbert Arizona

TurFresh