You're right - it makes no sense. The writer got their tense wrong. It should be: 'Up until 2 years ago I’d kind of been a manicured lawn kind of guy, a constant weed(er) and feeder.' He should have used a past perfect: 'I'd' rather than 'I've'. It means that all his (presumably, adult, home-owning) life, he had looked after his lawn very carefully. Then suddenly, two years ago, his habits changed and he stopped doing this. We all make mistakes. In spoken language, there are actually all sorts of inconsistences in grammatical agreement which generally go unnoticed. It's only when we write these things down that we realise there's something wrong. Well spotted, though!

Hello Aud, The sentence makes sense and the very minor grammar error does not interfere with meaning. Think of it like this: Past present future ←—————————————2————————————————————————-> From the past until 2 years ago I was like this (lawn busy maintenance) From 2 years ago to now I am different (don’ care about lawn) I hope this helps, Richard

Thank you Emma, that makes sense :)

This is actually grammatically incorrect. He should have said 'up until 2 years ago I had been a.....' It means that before 2 years ago he was a keen gardener, and then 2 years ago he stopped being so enthusiastic about gardening.