Docking wages - legal? 
Do you know your legal position when considering docking wages?

Do you have a retirement pension? 
With many people on the network being self-employed, what provisions have you taken for your retirement?

Getting paid for grass cutting 
Despite doing the job properly, and offering different ways to pay invoices, one member of the network is struggling to get payment from 40% of his customers.

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Question: How to deal with negative feedback and harassment? 
What steps can you take to deal with a problem customer both offline and online?

Marketing new business advice 
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More from the forum and blogs

Some advice needed for my first decking job please 
With their first decking job set to start one member of the network outlines their plans to get some feedback from those with helpful experience.

Advertising with competitors 
Can working with others in the landscaping sector and passing on work help your own business in the long run?

Does anyone on here work in sports turf? 
One member of the network is looking for advice from anyone who works in sports turf, more particularly in bowling green maintenance.

What knapsack sprayer do you use? 
With a PA6 course in the diary, one member of the network is wondering which type of knapsack sprayer is suitable for the job?

News headlines

Attracting pollinators: it's flowers that count, not origin 
Three sets of replicate “flower beds” were planted at RHS Wisley with either British native plants, plants from Europe, Asia and North America that were quite closely related to natives (“near natives”), or southern hemisphere plants that were often rather remote, both taxonomically and geographically, from the natives (“exotics”).

Hiroshima A-bombed tree seeds germinate in Gloucestershire 
Seeds from a tree that survived the bombing of Hirsohima have germinated at a Gloucestershire botanical garden.

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Press releases

Pellenc launch City Cut brushcutter head 
Pellenc has launched the City Cut for use on the Excelion 2000 brushcutter which is particularly suited to the maintenance of urban spaces and weeding without pesticides or projections.

Trimax exceeds reputation at Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club 
Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club is the proud new owner of a Trimax Snake after purchasing the rotary mower ten days before a demonstration was even due to take place.

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