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Scarifying Tips and Advice Article - What do you think?

Hello everybody,

I recently wrote the article below about scarifying to help people out. It would be great to get some extra tips and advice from the pros, so please let me know what you think or if you do anything differently! I've tried to bullet po

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RHS Plant Selector - online tool for choosing plants

The RHS Plant Selector is probably one of the most extensive and powerful online tools for choosing plants.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector

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What a week!

Thanks so much to everyone who came to one of the five meetings last week. I'm sorry some of you had to pull out but thanks for letting me know...I hope we will meet up next time?

Although a touch tiring, I enjoyed every minute of the LJ

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Laser levels

We are looking into purchasing a new laser level, can anyone recommend any?

Thanks in advance.

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What Holiday ?

Just been a reading a real insightful blog that reflects many of my business feelings and approaches and felt the main theme was well worth posting on LJN for your take:

"It’s winter; time for some time off, right?

Wrong.

Truly believe that our seaso

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Commercial mowers

I know looking through various threads that there has been more than enough posts re mowers and which do you find best.

 

My question is in regards to the commercial market.

 

Our old style side drive Hayter 56 our comming to an end and we are looking to

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Lawn Treatments - How often and what are people using?

Looking forward to next year, I'm considering including lawn care treatments as an additional income stream.

After reading various articles about this subject they've left me a little confused.
I'm looking for some advice on:

. how often to apply the t

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Stihl, Husqy or other?

I'm considering buying a new hedge trimmer as my HS80 is vry tired. But I've been looking around for an equivalent and I must say paying in excess of £500 really does annoy me. I know Stihl & Husqy are vry good but does anyone use anything different?

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Which mulch push mower?

My old mulcher has had its day. I've bought a mint 2nd hand John Deere JS63V as a replacement, but at the dealers I also noticed an ex-demo Stiga Multiclip Pro 53S SVAN. The Stiga seems to be very strong and sturdy (just like my professional Harry -

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What etesia

Hi Having never used etesias before we have just got a large contract for a housing estate. The problem is the lawns have been left for a few months and our dear old 57s won't be any use. The mowing in normal conditions would normal take 3 men a day

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Try this simple hourly rate test

Establishing what is the right rate to charge yourself out at is the tricky bit and nobody will get it 100% correct -but how do you know where to start?

Below is an example of how a one man band should approach setting a charge out rate.

My first con

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