“Hire some high school kids for $12/hr instead of importing indentured servants that the U.S. doesn’t have the stomach to deport.”
How can they work when they have to be in class.
The prime landscaping season is when they are on summer vacation. There is also after-school and weekends.
After school...on school vacations...When I was 9, I had a lawnmowing/snow removing business...when I sold it (to a friend’s younger brother for $25) I had 30 customers. He now has operations in 7 states, along with painting and remodeling.