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Saltex 2016 Are you going this year?

So someone had to start discussion.

Who is planning a trip to this years Saltex at the NEC?

I myself am looking forward to it, even more now they have added outside demo areas.

It was great to meet with fellow members last year and have good chat, it

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Saltex 2016 Are you goihis year?

So some had to start discussion.

Who is planning a trip to this years Saltex at the NEC?

I myself am looking forward to it, even more now they have added outside demo areas.

It was great to meet with fellow members last year and have good chat, it would

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Rogue customer list ?

Is there such thing as a rogue customer list? The type of list bad payers, nightmare clients etc can be put on? Or is it against human rights like every thing else is in the world today? It just came to me this afternoon, i know of a person that is a

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Van with 2.7t towing capacity

Morning all,As my truck ages and I begin to consider replacements, I've decided that to make my life easier, a van that can stay loaded is a better bet, but I would like to be able to keep my 2.7t ifor cage. I need a van capable of towing this, but m

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Problem with "Chat". Anyone else?

Hi everyone, having a problem with my Chat screen, says I have a message, but when I try to click on the person I have the message from nothing happens, screen will not show message nor let me reply? Anyone else having an issue? Many thanks Harry

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Commercial work/contracts

Hi guys.How do you go about getting commercial contracts that you have to tender for? Just been looking in the Internet and can't really find much. Looking for contracts that might come up soon. Is there any specific websites? Or do you contact local

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Fly tipping!

Now this just makes me furious!This afternoon it became apparent that someone had dumped about 1/4 tonne of green waste on my families garden centre hedge row. This is in the sticks of rural norfolk where everyone knows everyone so hopefully we will

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Apology to members!

Hi everyone,I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to everyone who I may have upset.Unfortunately my previous profile was accidentally deleted when I was updating my profile details, using my mobile phone and accidentally clicked the remo

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Stem injectors for herbicide application

Does anyone use stem injectors for herbicide treatment of hollow plant species such as Japanese knotweed and Giant hogweed? 

I have 2 different injectors which I have been using heavily for the last 3 summers  - one is hopeless with poor customer serv

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Pleached hedge spacing and supply

Morning all,Whilst on one of my bigger maintenance jobs, I opened my big mouth and said 'A pleached beech hedge would look really good there', so now I'm stuck with planting it.I know a common planting is hornbeam rather than beach for speed of growt

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Some start up questions

Hello Everyone,

It would be great if anyone could offer any advise.

I am about to set up a new garden maintenace business.

- Are you aware of any organic gardening courses?

- Can you recommend any reading material?

- the quite season Are you quite ove

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Honest advice for starting a garden maintenance business

Morning folks,I spent a couple of weeks reading through the various topics and advice threads on this finally built the courage to ask you guys for some well needed advice !

I'll give you some background to myself so you can advise better .I'm a poli

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Who employs a gardener to do their own garden?

I was chatting to a friend who runs a larger gardening firm than myself and he mentioned he doesn't do his own garden, he sends his lads around to do it as one of their slotted jobs for the week.Got me thinking, how many of you don't do your own gard

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strange catterpiller

any one know what this is as I have never seen out like it before about 350mm long and 10mm diameter with legs and a head I did not want to put my fingers nearthe coin is a 2p

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Trimming broad leafed hedges.

Just wondering what your tried and tested methods are for trimming broad leaf hedges like Laurel ? At the moment i basically trim off the excess with my hedge cutter then smarten up with shears, but have found larger hedges to be very time consuming,

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Food and drink

I was curious to know what fellow gardeners take on their days visits in the way of food and drink on these hot days?

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Weeding of the future..?

SwarmFarm has developed the world’s first “swarming” robots, which work in groups to perform key agricultural tasks such as the application of crop protection products and fertilizers, as well as irrigation and harvesting, more accurately and efficie

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Subscribing to Premium

Hi,

I chose to upgrade my account to premium last weekend as i would like access to the 'BOG'

I think I followed all of the steps correctly, however my account still shows as standard membership with no BOG access.

Have i gone wrong somewhere? Can anyon

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What TV show would you bring back in light of the recent events ?

A bit light hearted, but what old TV show would you like to see reincarnated?

For me, it would have to be;

 - Yes, Prime Minister - I love the word play, the deviousness etc

- The New Statesman - Rik Myall at his best

On a more silly note;

- It's a K

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Lawn weed and feed

Hello everyone. Hope your all coping with all this rain.Just need some recommendations please for a decent weed and feed for lawns. Got a lot of customers that need scarification on their lawns and I need a good treatment to apply to kill the moss/we

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