Saltex at the NEC
Members of the network are beginning to make plans to meet up during the Saltex show in Birmingham at the beginning of November, are you going?

(Another) mystery pattern in lawn
What are your thoughts on how a mysterious checker-board pattern has appeared across a large area of lawn?

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Featured member

▪ Business: VW Garden Services

▪ Contact: Harry Welch

▪ Location: Berkshire

▪ About: Landscaping & maintenance

▪ LJN page: Harry Welch

SALTEX 2015

If your work involves managing a landscaped or urban space then SALTEX 2015 is for you. Held at the NEC Birmingham on the 4 and 5 November, you will be able to learn from the industry's leading opinion formers and see new products and services from all of the leading suppliers. You can also take part in the free seminar programme. Visitor registration to SALTEX 2015 is FREE. To confirm your attendance visitwww.iogsaltex.com

Latest landscaper & gardener vacancies

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Check out the latest opportunities.
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Gardener – team leader: Warwickshire

Sales and marketing assistant: East Goscote, Leicester

Landscape supervisor: East Goscote, Leicester

Experienced landscaper/landscape foreman: Oxfordshire

Golf course landscaper/installer (synthetics): UK

Landscaper/team leader: Worcester

Experienced landscaper: Risborough

Landscape operatives and supervisors: London

Landscape supervisor: Uxbridge, Denham

Landscaper required: Farnham

Senior grounds maintenance operatives, yard manager and foremen: Glasgow

Landscape gardener – team leader: Farnham, Surrey

Landscaper: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Trainee landscaper Maidenhead

Senior gardener required: Weybridge

Gardener required: Crowthorne

A seasonal treat for the grass
Autumn grass will require energy to grow, however, too much energy (in the form of Nitrogen) can make a bad situation worse and bizarrely make the lawn weaker and more prone to disease.

In the Business Objectives Group

Attrition/churn rate for domestic maintenance customers
How to look at your customer base and price charges to see if you are operating effectively to ensure future success of your business.

Sleeves for Stihl Kombi engines
One member has a question about using Stihl Kombi engines and attachments.

PRO Members - 50% discount job posting on the Landscape Engine
Log-in to the BOG to get your discount code.

A photo pic from members

Midnight slate with Marshall's Argent light edging by Peter Fowle

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Pruning a weeping pear
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Amenity Forum Conference 2015
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Stihl KM90R plus hedge trimmer attachment
One member is looking to make use of an old piece of equipment, can you help?

What can you learn in business from a cartoon episode?
What Spongebob Squarepants can tell us about the value of training and your expectations of staff.

Good communications
Valuable experience for any new start-up business - keep customers up to date.

News headlines

More than one in three unable to correctly identify that charcoal is made from wood
More than one in three people were unable to correctly identify that charcoal is made from wood, a WWF survey has found, and many don’t link it to deforestation.

Timber production soars as industry reaps benefits of 1960s tree-planting boom
Timber! That cry is being heard a lot more around Britain these days, as the wood processing industry is experiencing a huge growth in production.

Press releases

Etesia’s robot mower is the ‘extra man’ for Forest Green Rovers FC
The new head groundsman at Forest Green Rovers FC, Matt Rainey, has praised Etesia’s ETMower claiming that it is like having an extra member of staff.

Successful education at Turf Science Live Ireland
Over 120 groundsmen, superintendents, turf managers, agronomists and golf club managers attended the latest Turf Science Live event, which was held at Naas Golf Club in Ireland.