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Chelsea

I do have a large dose of cynicism regarding the show gardens with exhibitors stretching the boundaries of practicality,appreciate it's a showcase for design and new ideas which I don't take issue with.

However we have Monty Don's "dog friendly" garde

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Advice: Fencing down Concrete Steps

Hi all,

Basically, the centre of the concrete steps in the boundary line. I want to put up fencing that runs down the length of these steps and I've been quoted by two landscapers...

Landscaper #1
He suggested that he would cut aquares of the concrete s

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Small, compact battery strimmer with variable speed trigger?

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Finding work

Hi everyone 

After a couple of years employed as Head of Horticulture for a charity, I decided to return to self employment as a freelance gardener at the end of March.

 I am struggling to find clients and don't know what to do! I have a website, a My

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Hayter, you could not make it up!

Just watched on YT the launch of the "new and improved" Hayter 56 Pro.

We have run these for around 4 years as they suited our sites, weight, and short handle length.

Had issues with grass build up around roller scraper bar to the extent the roller wou

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Lawn / soil problem

Hello all,

my son has started a landscaping business. He's had a few jobs. The one we priced and is working on is a new build. The garden is pretty big, about 450m2.Our quote was to seed it, plant a hedge at the back and create a border around with pr

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Battery hedgcutter advice

Hi all,

I have recently retired properly from my self employed gardening business, although I still do a few bits!  I’m now faced with upkeeping my own property of 1.5 acres, plenty of everything, grass, hedges, overgrown bits etc etc.

Previous work ha

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New Startup Advice Please?!

Hi there, 

I'm a 46yo woman and have done a desk job all my working life, but did do a degree in Landscape and Garden Design back in the day (basically a hort degree with a design element tacked on) and I am a bit of a gardening anorak!    

Unfortunate

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HAVS

We're just looking at proper HAVS ratings for our machines, and some of the results are frightening.  One of our Honda mowers comes up with a result of less than 2 hours use a day, then no other machinery: and there's nothing that lets you do a day's

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Lawnmower service

I am just about to do my annual service on my lawnmower and i am wondering if you put on genuine blades or aftermarket ones did you notice any difference? 

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waste carriers licence

Good day all,

The waste carriers licence.

I have just upgraded my registration from local authority to Gov.uk. To be honest my local authority could well have been out of date.

As someone who only transports his own waste its free, so well worth doing.

R

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Salt spreader for sale

Surplus to requirements -as new (used twice).Matterhorn pedestrian salt speader from Gritex. Unlike many salt spreaders advertised these do work properly and will handle damp salt, spreads up to 3mt and holds 25 kg plus, variable output settings. £25

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Bahco vs Chinese follow up

We cannot believe the vast price differences for the same thing ! EG Bacho S240 cheapest £59 inc vat. Dearest £140 ex vat, Teng tt1281 £72 inc vat dearest £120 plus vat, Draper £50 inc vat, dearest £110 plus vat. These all off the net, what is going

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Bahco tools vs Chinese?

Well it's that time of year for some serious machine fettling.

The shortcomings in our tool collection have once again brought us to a halt with some jobs, where did those Whitworth spanners come from!? Like most people our tool kits have been built u

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Season's greetings 🎄🎅🏼

 

Dear Juicers, 

It's that time of year again (already), finishing off little jobs, last minute present runs... before winding down for the holidays. Christmas is always a favorite in our household, my Dad used to love it, and would keep the Christma

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Echo pb 8010 - hip belt?

Evening folks, just upgraded from my trusty br600 to an echo 8010 ( arriving tomorrow) do they do a hip belt for. This model? Seen them for some other models but nit this one? Tia

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Quoting yearly and billing monthly for domestic clients?

Hey all, just completing my 3rd year as a gardener and have benefited from lots of great advice here in the forums so i've finally paid for premium to get full benefits of the forum!

I’ve just dropped 3 days private estate work a week year round due

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Moss and algae on hard surfaces

Does anyone have recommendations for products that actually work?  I find several of them work if conditions are perfect, but not otherwise.  We used to use Jeyes in the winter, but that's now practically washing up liquid.  Block Blitz from QVC is a

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Rough cut mower recommendations

Hi  all

I keep getting asked to mow rough areas, I've been hiring a walk behind flail mower, but I'm thinking of buying something ( I'll probably never get asked again if I do get something!) to use. It will need to be able to cut through tall weeds,

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HLA 135 Hedge Cutter

Hi all, just looking for some feedback on the Stihl HLA 135 hedge cutter. We have used the 65 & 66 for 5 years now and love them but looking for something a little bit better suited for a number of large conifer jobs we have to do over this coming wi

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Winter gloves

We generally buy Ejendals Tegera 292 gloves for Winter but at £20 plus £4 delivery wonder if there are gloves of equal performance at less cost?

The specification we need as a minimum is compliance to EN 511 at level 1 for conductive cold , contact co

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Lawn Treatment

Hi All, 

I've been asked to offer lawn treatment for many of my customers. I've quoted £50 for anything below 300sqm which is probabaly a bit steep maybe? But that includes product itself, application and watering if needed. How do you price granular

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Cordless kit for own use

Well I have finally retired. After doing this on and off for most of my life, and enjoying most of it (!) I have sold on the equipment for a modest sum to someone I introduced to my customers and all is agreeable. Now I am left with my own garden and

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Liquid Iron Application

Hi all, looking to spray all our lawns with a liquid iron treatment fairly soon. For most lawns it'll be primarily to green them up and give them a little protection over the winter rather than to blacken all the moss off. This year i'd like us to tr

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STIHL BR800C

STIHL BR800C        The crankshaft broke at the fan wheel.  I am trying to see if anyone else has had or seen this issue.  I have called Stihl customer service August 27th & September 3rd with them guaranteeing a call back in 5 business days each tim

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Machinery Service

As some of you might be aware, I bought all new equipment this year as part of my endeavour to become self employed. I don’t think equipment need a service this early on, but have been randomly contacted by several local companies in recent days, I g

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Hedge Trimming Cost

Hi all

I'm retired now  but do check in here now and again to see what's going on in the trade . I need a 10ft high  Leylandii hedge height reduced by 3 ft -  It's length  is 21 ft  and don't need width doing and there is good access etc.  What would

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Green Waste disposal in South Bucks

The transfer station we use is shutting down.

Where do other people use in South Bucks? Our yard is based in Iver. I know we can use the transfer station in Slough but they are a pain to deal with (no tipping in shorts, need a hard hat etc!).

Your help

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Experienced pair of hands available in West/North Norfolk

Hi all, I am in the process of moving to Norfolk.  I am keeping the business going in the West Midlands with my existing employee's but I do need to find a few days a week for myself in Norfolk too.

I am already starting to network with gardeners in N

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Updates Regarding LJN

Hi All, 

 

As you may or may not have seen, we are looking to enhance Landscape Juice and try to develop the site in ways that would be useful to all. 

 

The comments on our last post highlighted a need for a Noticeboard page where members are able to ad

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Advice on removing very large spreading bamboo.

I have 3 large bamboo plants to remove. 

 

 They are about 15 foot high and about  6 metres in circumference, obviously well rooted into the ground and pop up runners around 10 feet from their epicentre.

 

The obvious answer would have been to use a digg

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Worn Goal Mouth

I mow a school games field.  It is for a small primary school, but the facilities are there for the public to use at other times too.  It is never going to look like Wembley.  The area around the goal mouth is worn away continually.  Once, about two

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Ladder and roofbars and a carpark height restriction - destruction

So, this week I finally got my roof bars, roller and ladder setup installed, using Ulti bars equipment.  Got it all working and secure and used the ladder at work for the first time.

My van itself is less than a month old, brand new, and I went to pic

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Sharpening mower blades

Morning everyone 

What are you guys that's sharpen your mower blades yourselves using to balance the blades?

And what website do you use to buy machinery spare parts from?

Many thanks 

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Synthetic lawns/Astroturf/fake grass recommended maintenance/restoration

Hello, many apologies if I am raising a topic that has many existing posts already.  I did a search, but there were so many results that I thought I'd try my luck with a fresh one.

I have been working as a self-employed gardener for 3 months now and t

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Self Employed Price work

Good morning, I'm looking for some advise/help.

I run a family fencing and landscaping business with my dad. He runs the landscaping side and myself the fencing.

Up until about 2 years ago all of our employees were PAYE. But after 1 fencing supervisor

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Bank account

Does anyone use mettle business account with free agent.

How do you find it 

Is it easy to use 

 

 

 

Jim

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How to expand the business - Vans and employees

WE ARE AT THE STAGE WHERE WE MUST BUY AN EXTRA VAN FOR OUR SMALL BUT EXPANDING BUSINESS.

BUT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND EXACTLY HOW TO DO THIS?

 

WHEN THE COMPANY PURCHASES ANOTHER VAN FOR IT'S EMPLOYEES IS THE VAN REGISTERED TO THE BUSINESS AND

TO THE BUSINESS

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Rushes

Can anyone suggest best treatment to kill off rushes, as per photo, from a lawn. I know that the main issue is drainage and poor soil, since this area was previously woodland which the householder paid somebody a load of money to convert to lawn. The

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Morally - What would you do?

We have a few long standing elderly/vulnerable customers who have no close relatives and apart from their garden maintenance we act as a confidant and social service.

Due to our ever increasing commercial commitments it is becoming increasingly diffic

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