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Must Britain now Dig for Survival?

Scaremongering by ill-informed journalist of a real possibility?

Warnings of world food shortages are gathering pace and the horsemeat scandal has highlighted the provenance of food

Outside in my shady urban garden there stands possibly the most fert

Started by Landscape Juice in Groundscare

1 Reply · Reply by David Cox Apr 18, 2013

Maintenance work

Hi all garden maintenance folks!

I run a small bamboo nursery and at the moment don't employ any staff and its getting too much to manage the sales side of the business and the plants.

I know not many of you are local to us in Aberdeenshire but just wa

Started by Kerri Dall

3 Replies · Reply by Stephen @ SJS Apr 25, 2013

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013

I am going to be at Chelsea again this year on the Media Day (Monday). Are any LJN members going along this year?

Started by Phil Stovell

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I was wondering what suggestions I could get towards a lawn that is soaking underneath. I have a customer in a new build house, built on a once field. the ground is absolutely sodden. I used my fork to prong holes in it today to hopefully le

Started by Scott Kinnear in Turfcare

6 Replies · Reply by Scott Kinnear Apr 22, 2013

weed killer of the moment

Hello

What's the preferred weed treatment at the moment?
Got my pa1 / pa6 last winter so this will be my first year spraying!
Was looking at 5l of gallup 360 for about £40, any better alternatives? will be doing customers driveway's & paths.

Cheers Jam

Started by James Macleod in Pesticides

8 Replies · Reply by Brian www.mibservices.co.uk Apr 23, 2013

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Twitter ...You know its bad when...

You get Tweet's offering you a business service that provides :

"Results driven Twitter Management Services" for SME's...with a discount !

I am missing the point here :-) ?

Started by Gary RK in Social Media

1 Reply · Reply by Claire Brown Apr 18, 2013

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Don’t fall for Ash Die Back scam

Spring has finally arrived and so have the rogue tree surgeons warn Warwickshire County Council’s Trading Standards Service!

Warwickshire householders and landowners are advised not to employ door to door tree surgeons offering to carry out tree surg

Started by Phil Voice in Plants

1 Reply · Reply by andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance Apr 30, 2013

viking mb 650 vm - any views

Just purchased the above mower anyone got one your views / comments appreciated

Started by gary newton

3 Replies · Reply by Derek Conway Apr 21, 2013

Gap Fast

I sent for a free sample of this product . Has any one used this or similiar, if so what do you think?

http://www.gapfast.com/

Started by Richard Matthews

3 Replies · Reply by Simon Smith Apr 22, 2013

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Artificial grass installation

Hey guys I'm wondering if you can help me.I've had several requests for artificial lawn installations. I'm quite happy to install it as it seems very straight forward. The one question I do have is do any of you know the most economical method of ins

Started by Tony Goodridge in Landscaping

1 Reply · Reply by Anthony Toop Apr 21, 2013

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Raymond Blanc: 'I was a gardener long before I cooked'

Chef Raymond Blanc was brought up to love gardening. Now he is launching a competition to help design a new heritage garden at his flagship restaurant.

Raymond Blanc stands in a patch of bare ground, flinging soil into the air with a fork. "This is w

Started by Phil Voice in Careers

1 Reply · Reply by Phil Voice Apr 22, 2013

Size or MPG please help?!

Good Morning all.I am looking into the purchase of a new van over the next two weeks. Something more economical and more practical than my existing 40year old land rover!To that end I am trying to weigh up the pro's and con's between load area, and r

Started by English Sheep in Vehicles

15 Replies · Reply by Landscope Apr 25, 2013

Trailer storage over night near Lymington

Bit of a cheeky one.I need to deliver some items on my 16x8 trailer in to Lymington, Hampshire.If possible I was hoping to make it a night or two away with the wife and kidz but need to park up the trailer to do this.Is there anyone down that way tha

Started by MWJONES

1 Reply · Reply by Dan Frazer Gardening Apr 20, 2013

Unrealistic budget expectations by clients - here's one.

I was browsing through freeindex.co.uk and came across this, expected to be delivered for £100.00. The icing on the cake is the final two sentences :->

http://www.freeindex.co.uk/lead(landscape-gardener-wanted-in-paisley)_121275.htm

FWIW I haven't come

Started by Eugene Baston

1 Reply · Reply by Ian Bidders Bidwell Apr 20, 2013

Wild Flower Areas.

Last year, I persuaded a couple of our contracts to let me experiment with 'wild' grass areas, with average results. Basically we just let the grass grow for 4 months. It was amazing how many flowers did appear along with the varying grass species, b

Started by Colin Hunt

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Need comfy boots / trainers

Hello all

After getting fully back into the grass cutting all this week i forgot quite how much my feet/ankles get a bit sore and stiff from walking back n forth and up and down hills all day long.
I just wear standard caterpillar style steel toe cap

Started by James Macleod

8 Replies · Reply by Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt Apr 21, 2013

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Quick Books Customer Survey...

Recently had an email questionnaire on behalf of Intuit for our QuickBooks Pro software.

Anyway, one of the questions made me laugh out loud :

"Thinking about the last time you used QuickBooks, how quickly did you experience something delightful?

Ple

Started by Gary RK in Accountancy

1 Reply · Reply by Robbie Apr 18, 2013

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High Invisibility

This is an interesting blog post from Judith Hackitt on the HSE website concerning hi-vis clothing and how it seems to have lost its sense of importance and meaning.

Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/news/judith-risk-assessment/high-invisibility060313.ht

Started by Phil Voice in Health and Safety

2 Replies · Reply by andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance Apr 21, 2013

closeboard fencing

having problem with this customer, i done a job a few doors down from him last november, it included a closeboard fence, but as time goes by differant suppliers use differant treatments for their preasure treating, the colour is sometimes differant,

Started by phil smith yewtreelandscapes.com in Landscaping

7 Replies · Reply by Austin Powell-Allen Apr 18, 2013

efflorescence in natural sandstone

Hi All Has anyone ever experienced Efflorescence with natural sandstone. I laid a patio 2 weeks ago on a full bed of mortar with Natural Sandstone Modak colour and the patio is now white my customers has tried hosing it dow but it keeps coming back h

Started by Neil Brown in Paving Materials and Advice

11 Replies · Reply by Mick Gammage Apr 24, 2013

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