An award-winning lawn grows in Mineola

BY ANNABEL HOFMANN

John Robinson of Mineola has been promoted from a monthly winner of Jonathan Green’s Show Us Your Lawn competition to a national winner.

Robinson, whose wife submitted the photo of their lawn behind his back, previously won the competition for the month of June. This automatically entered him into the national contest at the end of the year, where he also took home first place.

Jonathan Green, a national supplier of grass seed and lawn care products, holds a monthly contest from April to October where people around the country submit photos of lawns grown using their products. The seven monthly winners are then entered into a yearend competition for the best Jonathan Green lawn.

“Over the thousands of pictures that come in Mr. Robinson won,” said Anthony Langlois, territory sales manager for Jonathan Green. “I think he could be very proud of his lawn, and the picture is beautiful.”

The prize for the monthly contest was $50 to be used to buy Jonathan Green products at Hicks Nurseries, the local retailer and the place where Robinson bought all the supplies to perfect his lawn. The prize for the national competition is a $500 gift card to Hicks and free fertilizer for a year.

Robinson said that his lawn hadn’t always been so photogenic.

“I did have a landscaper, but I had the worst lawn ” he said. “He was cutting weeds and dirt.”

When the pandemic shut down all other activities, Robinson decided to focus on improving his grass.

“I told my wife when I woke up one morning. I said: ‘I got the biggest project. I want to do it and I want to do it right,’” he explained.

After hearing about Jonathan Green prod-