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Groundscare (889)

Ride on collector or Mulcher

We are looking to renew our machinery this coming season,we have a commercial customers with large grass areas and we are wondering wether to switch to a commercial Mulcher?

Currently we run a few mountfield high end domestic models,but they are not u

Started by Derek irving in Groundscare

59 Replies · Reply by Derek irving Jan 11, 2016

Evening all,I'm in need of some fertiliser for a couple of my gardens in which the soil is seriously depleted. For several reasons, in this instance, I don't want to use horse manure et al, so if anyone can point me in the direction of a supplier of

Started by Tom Beevor in Groundscare, Landscaping, and Soil & compost

11 Replies · Reply by Tom Beevor Jan 4, 2016

How to survey a garden for French Drains?

I have visited a garden a few times over the last month that quite clearly has drainage issues.
Whilst walking on the lawn I leave 2-3cm deep footprints. The lawn has also sunk considerably around the perimeter of the garden.

The garden is roughly 15m

Started by Edward Wright in Groundscare

1 Reply · Reply by Mike Bradley Dec 28, 2015

Customers referring a friend

Was thinking of incentivising my customers next year getting them to work for me, Ie refering a friend for regular garden maintenance was thinking of £100 if the friend goes with a regular contract. Thinking of M&S vouchersAny views on anyone who has

Started by chris in Groundscare

5 Replies · Reply by briggsandscrapem Dec 19, 2015

Moving a pine tree

HiGot to move a pine tree which has only just been planted about 2.5 Mtrs50 cm width 40 cm depth it's heavy heavyAny tips on getting it out of the hole ?????No machineryThanks there will be 3 of us well 2 and a half to lift it outThanks

Started by chris in Groundscare

15 Replies · Reply by chris Dec 18, 2015

NoMix

Is NoMix still the only product that can be blanket sprayed over non-porous surfaces? Is anybody on here using it?

Started by Phil Seabrook in Groundscare and Pesticides

12 Replies · Reply by Roy Parker Jan 3, 2016

Platform tripod ladders

Hi just received an 10 ft professional Tripod ladder with 3 adjustable legs but there is nothing on it to say it's the Pro version anyway of telling ???

Started by chris in Groundscare

5 Replies · Reply by Harry@VWGS Dec 11, 2015

Your weapon of choice?

In my simplistic naivety I believe there are four levels or stages in a (landscape) gardener's evolution, namely:

1 . Estate car

2 . Car with decent trailer

3 . Van or pickup

4 . Flatbed or vehicle fleet

I'm a newbie at stage 2 with 4x4 and alloy, high-si

Started by Chris in Groundscare, Landscaping, and Machinery

46 Replies · Reply by Andrew Midgley Dec 6, 2015

Are these any good?

Started by Chris in Groundscare, Landscaping, and Machinery

11 Replies · Reply by Chris Dec 2, 2015

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Looking for some advice please , not looking for folk slaging me off as av seen on some sites before :) if you dont ask you dont know :)

I am very new to this game, started 2 years ago doing site maintenance and general tidying ups , pressure washing etc. From there I now have built up a very good business and now employ 5 staff , this summer we helped out a big company with grass cut

Started by Darren Horne in Groundscare

33 Replies · Reply by Richard Gadsby Dec 7, 2015

Snow clearing, is it worth the hassle?

After few inches of Snow has fallen overnight and frozen, is it worth the hassle to offer a basic path/drive clearing service?

is it a legal nightmare thats not worth entering? As we are in the Sue for trips and falls, and people are out to sue for an

Started by Richard in Groundscare

10 Replies · Reply by Gavin Gray Dec 5, 2015

Wolf tools any good?

for a relative newbie doing domestic gardens, are wolf tools up to much?

Started by Chris in Groundscare, Landscaping, and Machinery

24 Replies · Reply by Chris Nov 30, 2015

Removing of a knot garden

Got to remove a knot garden about 150 metres any clever tips??Used a mattock last time the plants are about 4 years old riddled with blightBest methods please for quickness

Started by chris in Groundscare

2 Replies · Reply by chris Nov 29, 2015

Newbie 49 year old seeking advice!

Good evening all!

I have for the past 15 years worked as a Specialist Paramedic in the south west, and during the past few years enjoyed some general garden maintenance and low level landscaping work for a few clients built up over this time. I found

Started by Simon Corbett in Design, Accountancy, and Business

14 Replies · Reply by Simon Corbett Dec 5, 2015

Beginners?

I'm a 47yr old gardener who's been trying to build up a gardening round part time in the face of impending redundancy at my full time job. Its now looking like the redundancy is imminent, and I've enjoyed working outside all year and hope to make som

Started by Chris in Business, Groundscare, and Landscaping

32 Replies · Reply by Chris Nov 28, 2015

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Box Blight - current treatment / processes ?

Been maintaining a large garden a year now which has a lot of recently planted ( two/three years approx) Box hedging - approx several hundred metres-

Extremely healthy up until this recent wet and warm spell of october / november

At the beginning

Started by dan in Groundscare and Landscaping

8 Replies · Reply by Progreen Weed Control Nov 24, 2015

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Grounds Maintenance teams wanted in Islay/Fife/Tayside

Ground Control Ltd is one of the UK.’s most established landscape solutions providers. To develop our “go-above-and-beyond” philosophy whilst ensuring that neighbourhoods flourish, we are looking to immediately expand the commercial grounds maintenan

Started by Ground Control in Groundscare and Landscaping

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Saltex visitor numbers 2005 to 2018

I'm still awaiting the official audited visitor numbers for Saltex 2015.

However, Fusion Media has published a blog post which claims 'over 8,000' people visited this year's event at the NEC Birmingham.

I've kept audited figures since 2005.

Whilst

Started by Phil Voice in Groundscare

31 Replies · Reply by Tony @SM Jan 5, 2019

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Gardener Olympics?

Ok this might be a bit of mad idea but would anyone else be interested in entering some kind of gardener skills competition?

I'm thinking hedge cutting (speed or level or both), strimming/edging a straight line, topiary trimming with shears, lawn cutt

Started by Darren Walters in Groundscare

3 Replies · Reply by Graham Wright Nov 13, 2015

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Weather Predictions - 50th Anniversary !

In an industry that is so weather dependent - how much do you rely on the forecast?

Crystal Ball or high tech guesswork? The Met office celebrates 50 years of using computers to model and predict the weather:

NWP takes the latest observations of the wo

Started by Progreen Weed Control in Groundscare, Health and Safety, and Weather

2 Replies · Reply by Peter Davis Nov 14, 2015

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