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  David Cox February 21, 2012 at 8:31am

  Depends on how fully booked you are, but we are in the "lean season" so to speak, I find most customers are down to monthly top up visits to keep things tidy from December to the End of Feb, and by March the grass starts to march on and everythings goes manic for 9-10 months.

  Try suggesting winter planting regimes to customers and "spring tidy's", then next year encourage people to have their garden visited monthly in winter to keep it tidy - Most agree when they see the difference it makes come spring - Ie no first spring vists wasted on clearing a winters worth of leaf blow etc.
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  Dan Frazer Gardening February 21, 2012 at 9:27am

  Corey, my website details winter work that I typically do. I expect to do the first full round of grass cuts around 18-20th March given the mild weather. I have been on average 3 days per week through the winter, but the rest of the time on admin.
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  Geoffrey King February 21, 2012 at 8:39pm

  We carry on throughout the winter, in some gardens, there is more to do then the summer.

  Planted a tray of Polyanthus today, variety 'Wanda'

  Customers do like something bright & colourful at this time of the year.
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  andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance February 21, 2012 at 9:33pm

  I've been working all winter as i always do, but grass cutting i'm am thinking will probably start around 2nd week in march.
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  Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt February 22, 2012 at 10:40am

  Ideally I'd like to start cutting towards the end of march as it is forecast to be especially mild but contracts all start first week in April and we're solid up until then so beginning of April it is.
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  GORDON February 22, 2012 at 11:48am

  Doing a few now but the main trust will start second to third week in March. The beauty of having a large

   customer base for lawn mowing also means I have a large number of customers who require hedge trimming etc. With that and one off hedge cutting jobs it keeps me busy enough.

    For a while I did some decorating but I no longer need to do this because of the trimming work that has built up over the years.

  Make sure that you inform customers of the services that you offer. For some reason despite being given a business card which lists the services, they do not always associate them with your business

  Nothing worse than arriving at a customers to find out they have employed another to do a service which you offer but they did not know about. Ouch!!