from $25
Lawn mowing
Weekly or every-other through Bermuda season. $25/yard starting — most mid-size Wichita lots land $35–55. Crisp edges, blown clean.
Wichita, KS — Sedgwick County since 2000
Twenty-six years of Wichita yards, kept right.
Mowing, sod, fall aeration and overseed, leaf cleanup, snow when the ice rolls in. One owner answering the phone — Eric Poorman.
Poorman's Lawn Care
Poorman's Lawn Care
Poorman's Lawn Care
About Poorman's Lawn Care
Twenty-six years of the same number, the same truck, the same answer.
Poorman's started in 2000, one mower out of east Wichita. Twenty-six years later it's still the same setup that earned the route in the first place — Eric on the property, an honest quote on the spot, the work done the day it was promised.
This is a Plains lawn-care business, not a national franchise. Tall fescue and Bermuda behave differently in a Kansas summer than they do in a brochure. Wind dries a yard out by Tuesday. An ice storm can put a third of the route on the ground for a week. Twenty-six years in, those things stop being surprises.
If we said Thursday, we're there Thursday. Wind, heat, or August humidity.
— Eric Poorman, owner
What we do — Wichita
Six things, done well, for the route we already know.
Built around the Plains growing season — Bermuda, tall fescue, zoysia. Fall aeration is the marquee call.
- from $120
Yard cleanup
Spring debris pickup, summer storm clears, fall leaf hauls. The kind of work that makes a yard ready, not just empty.
- from $1.20/sf
Sod installation
Bermuda or tall-fescue sod over prepped grade. We pull the dead turf, level, and lay — no shortcuts on the soil work underneath.
- from $0.18/sf
Lawn seeding & fall overseed
Tall-fescue overseed in late September after aeration. Bermuda spring seeding when the soil hits 65°. Watered-in instructions in writing.
- from $220
Landscaping & bed work
Bed clean-outs, hedge trim, mulch refresh, simple plantings. Not a design firm — just the steady upkeep most Wichita yards need twice a year.
- from $60 / push
Snow removal
Winter add-on for routine clients. We push driveways and walks before sunrise after the storm — same crew, same promise.
About the name
Poorman is the family name.
The work is anything but cheap. The name is — but the prices won't make you feel it.
Poorman is the family name — anglicized German, brought west through Pennsylvania farm country two generations back, and put on a Wichita lawn truck in 2000. Twenty-six years in, Eric still answers the phone, still walks the property before he quotes, and still charges what a Wichita yard should actually cost.
Mowing starts at twenty-five dollars. Most weekly lots land in the thirty-five to fifty-five range. Sod is roughly a dollar-twenty a foot installed. Fall aeration plus overseed runs around eighteen cents a foot. Nothing hidden, nothing rounded up after the work's done.
How it works
What working with us looks like.
- 01
A phone call
Tell Eric the address and what you're seeing. Five minutes is enough to start.
- 02
Walk the yard
Eric comes out, walks the property, and asks about drainage, slope, and what's under the turf.
- 03
A written number
One price, broken out per service. No surprise add-ons after the work.
- 04
On the schedule
Most weekly mow routes start the next week. Sod and seed slot to the season.
- 05
Done, and shown
Eric walks the finished work with you — and answers the phone if anything looks off the next morning.
That’s it. No portals, no logins — a phone call or an email is all it takes.
The Kansas year — USDA Zone 6b/7a
Wichita yard, month by month.
Bermuda, tall fescue, and zoysia don't behave the same way they do in a brochure. This is the actual rhythm we run on Sedgwick County yards — twenty-six years of route notes, distilled.
Mar – May
Spring
Late March
First mow once tall fescue hits 3.5". Pre-emergent goes down before crabgrass germinates — soil 55°F is the trigger.
Mid-April
First fertilizer pass on cool-season turf. Bed clean-out: pull winter mat, refresh edges, light mulch top-up.
May
Bermuda greenup begins — bump mowing height down on Bermuda lots. Fescue stays at 3.5–4". First sod installs of the year.
Jun – Aug
Summer
June
Mowing twice a week on watered Bermuda. Watch for chinch bug pressure on south-facing slopes.
July
Deep, infrequent watering — 1" once or twice a week beats daily shallow. Tall fescue may go semi-dormant; that's normal.
August
Grub treatment window if last summer ran heavy. Begin booking the fall aeration route — it fills by Labor Day.
Sept – Nov
Fall
Late September
The marquee window. Tall-fescue aeration + overseed across Sedgwick County. Bermuda still actively growing — mow on schedule.
October
Fall fertilizer (the most important feed of the year for cool-season turf). First leaf cleanups midmonth.
November
Final mow at 2.5" on fescue to discourage snow mold. Heavy leaf hauls through Thanksgiving. Irrigation blowouts on request.
Dec – Feb
Winter
December
Snow + ice push for routine clients — driveways and walks before sunrise after the storm.
January
Equipment service month. Blades sharpened, deck repainted, mowers ready by February.
February
Routes finalize, new-customer walkthroughs scheduled, dormant pruning if requested.
“The window for fall aeration is roughly two weeks — late September through the first week of October. Miss it and the overseed never gets its root start before frost. We book that route in early August.”
— Eric Poorman
Where we work — Sedgwick County
The route we run.
The Wichita metro, hand-drawn. Routine routes stay inside Sedgwick County. Hutchinson and the Reno County edge — by quote only.
Sketch map — not to scale. Routine routes only.
Where we work
From east Wichita, all across Sedgwick County.
We stay inside Sedgwick County for routine mowing and seasonal calls. Hutchinson and the Reno County edge by quote only — the diesel costs more than the route does for a single visit.
Home base: Wichita
- Wichitahome base
- Derby
- Andover
- Bel Aire
- Park City
- Goddard
- Maize
Reviews — Wichita, KS
Quiet pride, twenty-six years deep.
Eric did an amazing job. Trimmed and mowed for a very reasonable price, then asked twice if there was anything else we wanted before he packed up.
Very in tune to detail. Sawed up a downed limb, loaded everything out, and even cleaned up all the little stuff in the bed. Highly recommend.
Came out immediately the morning after our ice storm and addressed the lawn cleanup. That kind of response time is rare in Wichita.
Fall aeration and overseed two seasons running. Yard looks better in May than it has in ten years. Eric calls before he comes — appreciated.
Reasonable, on time, and you can actually reach a person. Tried two of the bigger Wichita services first — Eric is in a different category.
Recent work — Sedgwick County
A few of the routes.
East Wichita — weekly mow 
Andover — zero-turn route 
Riverside — trim pass 
Derby — irrigation check 
Bel Aire — sod install 
Park City — fall cleanup 
Goddard — before 
Eastborough — finished mow
Honest pricing
Mowing from$25/ yard
Most Wichita lots land $35–55 weekly. Sod runs around $1.20/sf installed, fall aeration + overseed around $0.18/sf. Eric quotes the actual yard, not a guess from the road.
Free walkthroughs anywhere in Sedgwick County. We won't quote sight-unseen on anything past mowing.
Call (316) 201-8786Questions — Poorman's Lawn Care
Plain answers, no runaround.
Yes — single-mow visits, one-off cleanups, a few hours of edging. No minimum.
Call Eric — owner answers
— Poorman's Lawn Care
If we're on a job we'll call back same day. Wichita, KS — Mon–Sat 8 to 7, Sunday 1 to 7.