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Thoughts on "Your Garden Made Perfect"

I've been asked to write an article about BBC2's new garden makeover show, Your Garden Made Perfect.

Has anyone else watched it yet? What did you think of it?

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Advertising on Bark

Hello allI know a few of you have mentioned getting work through online agency Bark in other conversations I wondered how many of you have used it and how you've found it for actually finding work. Do you find that the leads are more often than not

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Topiary

Hi all, I've been asked if I can spiral shape these and to be honest I'm not sure, never done it... Anyone help?

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Guaranteed to get your ‘Goat up’

It's seems Goatscaping is the green way forward....

https://twitter.com/wsj/status/1362809172727795712?s=21

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weibang

Who has weibang mowers  i did a pot before and no one commented. SO can u give ur feedback if you own and run a weibang mower and what model . thks.

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Employing a young unemployed person - first impressions.

After reading a post by Brian http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/school-leavers-and-no-apprenticeships-available-for-them I thought rather than hijack his particular post that I would share something on a similar topic.

Two weeks ago I

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Lawn care pricing

Hi all. I am looking to branch out into lawn care as well as my garden maintenance. I am just a little unsure

of what I should charge,so before I get the calculator out and try and callobrate everything,I thought I would ask here.

If any of you guys ca

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checkatrade

hi 

its that time of year again  to look at the advitising budget for year

 checking out the checkatrade figures and after checking our page postion, it transpires we are on page six and the calls have allmost dryed up

so after phoning them to enqiure w

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Lawn care assistant wanted - Sussex based

We are a growing lawn care company based in Sussex and are looking for somebody to come on board part time to assist with our increasing workload.

Previous experience is essential, Ideally previous lawn care or green keeper duties

Please comment if int

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CRM Systems

Hi all

In our cleaning business we use a system called Jobber for our scheduling etc etc, works great but was wondering if any of you have any recommendations for a system that works well in garden maintenance etc ?

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Waste licence?

Does anyone know if a landscaper needs a waste disposal licence if they remove greenery and fencing/old paving etc from clients gardens, but take it to their own premises where it goes in different skips.  The skips then get collected by a waste disp

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Manual Push Mowers

I am considering buying a small hand reel push mower for 3 or 4 small back courts of about 16 square yards which are difficult to access due to steps.

There are quite a few options such as Gardena, Webb, Husqvarna. Does anyone have any recommendations

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Selling my one man band business

Hello, and I wonder if people can help/advise.  I am thinking that this year will be last before packing up.  I am a one man band gardener/landscape gardener in Bucks and have been happily turning over over £60k on the basis of a c.2 - 3 day week (my

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Lawn treatment programme. Best NPK mix?

Hi guys,

Just looking for some opinions on a new area I'm taking my business into this year. I run a gardening round in Norwich, just general maintenance gardening and this year am going to look into expanding into some lawn treatment work.

I was just

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Help with a painted decking

Evening all, I'm asking on behalf of an estate I work for. One of their tenanted properties has a large area of decking. It seems that the previous tenant used some sort of paint rather than a dedicated decking stain, which isn't budging with pressur

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Stiga ix340

Hi guys, 

Just thought I'd check if anyone is selling a good condition stiga 340ix model 4wd, or would know of anyone selling one please

 

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Nextdoor.co.uk

speaking to a friend today, she mentioned an advert for nextdoor.co.uk posted through her letterbox. Upon inspection it seems an interesting idea and they allow businesses on too. Has anyone had any experience with this?

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Garden flooding

Hi, 

Im having issues with my garden becoming very saturated with water and puddles forming. We are situated on a slope so the water flows down from the hill and on top of that there is a lot of rocks which might be causing the garden from soaking up

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On site risk assessment apps/Jobber

Hi,

 

We are looking for an app we can use to upload our risk assessment templates to that we can fill in on site via phone or tablets.

 

We use Jobber for all our other scheduling, invoicing etc but now have a few contracts that require pictures and ris

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Looking for lawn businesses

We are a leading lawncare company and are looking to acquire well established lawn treatment businesses based in the South East

Whilst Sussex and Surrey are preferred locations, we will also look at Hampshire and Kent based businesses for the right op

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