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RFCA - Reserve Forces and Cadet Associations

Good morning
I've recently been asked to quote for the above association.
Basically involves maintaining grounds at reserve forces bases and cadet buildings in your area. In my area there were 19 sites.

If your interested their website is http://www.r

Started by Andy Harrold

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Advice on buying my first van

Hello all. I am about to make the move fom estate car to van and was hoping for a bit of advice to help me make the right choice.

I was looking to spend around £2.5k. Is this enough to get something smart and reliable?

Would a regular sized van be suff

Started by Dave Bruton

30 Replies · Reply by chris Mar 17, 2013

Tolerances

I was wondering if landscapers have a guide to the allowed tolerances for the laying thicknesses of sub base material and finished levels of the sub grade, ie + / - 10mm etc.

Started by Richard Jones

9 Replies · Reply by stephen murray-cook Mar 14, 2013

Recommended 3D Garden design

Can anyone recommend software for 3D garden designs to help with quotes. I also dont want to pay a premium price or be bamboozled with an over complicated program thats going to consume too much of my time.

Started by David Flinders

3 Replies · Reply by Gary RK Mar 9, 2013

young beech-wet feet.

can someone back me up here?i advise to a customer A, B, C, etc.. customer wants everything-for whatever random reason-done Z, F, 59, eleventytwelve!pruning shrubs that are about to flower..scarifying a lawn and then weeks later autumn feeding it and

Started by neil aldridge

9 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Mar 15, 2013

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A job well done - Scarifying ?

Take a look at this picture - is that a good job well done !

Scarified down to 25mm.

Would love to be able to do that so neat:

Picture courtesy of Fine Turf Services via Twitter @FineTurfServ

Started by Gary RK in Turfcare

12 Replies · Reply by Ross Stuart Mckinlay Jan 30, 2014

Range Cookers

This is nothing to do with gardening other than it's about cooking the spoils of the veg patch.

I am looking to buy a range cooker and have decided that an Aga, which I have had before will be too hot in our south facing kitchen and too expensive to r

Started by Kerrie John-The garden design Co

4 Replies · Reply by Kerrie John-The garden design Co Mar 8, 2013

Apple tree pruning

Don't normally have any trouble with thinning/pruning trees but this one has me slightly puzzled as to the best way to proceed.
Basically, its a very old tree.. the main trunk goes up to about 8' where it splits into 6 smaller "trunks". These all go u

Started by Geoff Norfolk in Plants

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Stretched SME owners "multi-tasking to the extreme"

SME business owners juggle too many tasks, and it affects their focus on strategy and success, according to new research by Pitney Bowes. The research studied the marketing habits of over 500 UK small businesses, and it found that the traditional ene

Started by Gary RK

5 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Mar 15, 2013

blogs

the blog link is missing on top bar

Started by stephen murray-cook

1 Reply · Reply by Stuart @ Eco Garden Maintenance Mar 6, 2013

Business Idea - Need some market research help.

Hi all,

I have an idea for a business and I need to pick the brains of a few Landscape contractors, Designers and specifiers.

If you have 5 mins and can answer a few questions then please let me know.

Many thanks

Ben

Started by Ben Cox

2 Replies · Reply by Ben Cox Mar 9, 2013

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Whose garden is it anyway?

I retained at least two of my clients for the full +20 years I had my landscaping and gardening business.

I had several clients respectively of more than ten and fifteen years standing and lots who we served in excess of five years.

Many clients beca

Started by Phil Voice

3 Replies · Reply by Colin Hunt Mar 8, 2013

What are the business eletricity costs? What contract do you have?

Hi All,
We moved to our own place just after Christmas and it is beautiful.
I now got to very large garages in addition to the 3 other storage places in one of the farms around us.

as i work from home, like some others here ,i was offered business and

Started by Ofer El-hashahar

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Gardener required Sheffield University £6.50-£7.50ph

Vacancy details

Employer
University of Sheffield - Estates and Facilities Management

Job title
Gardeners

Salary range
£6.50-£7.50 per hour

Job description
You will be tidying up and providing general maintenance to the University
grounds over the sum

Started by Landscape Juice in Careers

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Ive heard some cra., then I heard this...

All,

At work at present (at a fire station in London) and the contractor arrives to do the lawns, weed spraying etc, i notice he's strimming all the lawn, and area approx 8mx10m, only small albeit.

So I go out the front and have a chat, ask the questio

Started by Andrew Michael Palmer in Turfcare

3 Replies · Reply by Paul McNulty Mar 6, 2013

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Business Challenges ... Making Sense of it ... It's same the world over...

Kevin Gilbride is the Exec Director of ASCA Organisation in the US which represents Contractors performing ice and snow management services. He recently wrote an article which appeared in magazines etc talking about the top 3 recurring challenges/pre

Started by Gary RK in Business

1 Reply · Reply by Gary RK Mar 7, 2013

Secateurs

The best secateurs on the market?

How much and how good?

Thanks in advance.

Started by Brook Landscaping in Machinery

17 Replies · Reply by Lawncare-4u.co.uk Mar 16, 2013

Bees, Lies and Evidence-based Policy

I thought many of you might be interested in this article in Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/bees-lies-and-evidence-based-policy-1.12443. It's by Lynn Dicks from the Natural Environment Research Council in the UK. She's hung the article off the cu

Started by Susan Walter

7 Replies · Reply by Susan Walter Mar 5, 2013

Grass cutter in Northampton

I have been aproached by a customer to cut grass at a site in Northampton. Unfortantly grass cutting is not really my thing so I am looking for a suitable person who may be intrested in doing this for me.If you are intrested please drop me a line.Reg

Started by MWJONES

4 Replies · Reply by Kieran Ray Mar 5, 2013

chainsaw chains ?

i have a husky xp 346 with 50 cm oregon bar , currently got a new oregon chain on which is fine ( £22)
previously had a chain branded Husqvarna which is now stretched beyond use but the teeth have only shortened by around 20 % which is annoying

just

Started by steve cormack

4 Replies · Reply by Evergreen Roof Gardens Mar 5, 2013

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