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Phromium butchered

Hi

Last summer one of my clients decided to take their shears to one of their Phormiums and reduced it's height by half, but obviously left behind an ugly mound of butchered leaves! Ironically they did this the week before my visit where I was going t

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Sub contracting question.

This is going to sound like a really naive question, but I can't figure it out because I've never sub contracted anyone.

For examples sake, I get a school maintenance contract, and can fill out all that's expected apart from cutting the school playing

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Reciprocating saw

Never owned one or used one until yesterday
Oh my !!! Game changer for cutting a stump out of the ground for a fence post or replanting etc. 
Have any of you guys used one or considered trying one. Obviously way quicker and cheap interchangeable blade

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Heads up - Pesticide Usage Survey

The Amenity Forum is running an important survey about the use of pesticides.

If you work with these products you have until tomorrow (6th Feb 2021) to offer your opinion.

https://surveymonkey.co.uk/r/AmenitySurvey2020 

Short notice, I know but pl

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gt new feed program (spring)

whats your take on this then, is there such a granular fertiliser  that would work this way ? they putting it down jan/feb 

Our ‘Spring Ready’ Treatment can endure snow, frost, and even heavy rain on your lawn as it lies dormant waiting for the most e

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Advertisement

Evening all, happy Sunday!!

 

I've just received my order of 7000 buisness cards , 4 banners and 200 flyers!!

 

Does anyone think it's a good time to start putting them out now or maybe better to wait until next month??

Has anyone ever put banners up? The

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Trailer swap/sale Oxon,Bucks,Berks

Hi all. Is anyone I interested in an Ifor GD105 twin axle? I bought it second hand recently, but it's just too big for the storage space I have. I'm wanting to [ideally] swap it for a GD84/85 or similar size from another manufacturer (8'x4' or 8'x5')

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Mulch vs side shoot

Hi all....this season I've got a new large lawn to mow they 

want cut and drop fortnightly it gets it gets 4 feeds

a season, so if we get a wet summer there's going 

to be some good growth on it 

what would be the best finish on the lawn I.e clumps of gr

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What van can you fit a quad bike in?

As per above, I imagine vivaro transit etc but what about dispatch? Obvs depends on size of quad but all hypothetical at the moment.

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Single species turf for shady areas

Good afternoon All

i have been asked by a customer for my help and opinion  fir turfing a shaded area.

He has found this product:

https://www.turfonline.co.uk/shadesman/

it is a single species turf and I have absolutely no experience.

Does anybody have an

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small grounds maintenance tenders

HI.  like many of us on here, I am looking for small grounds maintenance tenders.  I currently utilise due north, b2b etc to search for tenders, but was wondering if I am missing any key sites where smaller tenders are advertised?  Thanks very much -

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Health & Safety Policy

I wonder if any of you guys could advise or point me in the right direction. I am a sole trader and have built up a nice client base over the years as well as 3 contracts for grounds maintenance for blocks of flats, the latest contract was awarded to

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Any ideas what to do with this please guys n girls...

hi , does anyone have any ideas of what we can do with this lawn , it's completly saturated and never dried out even in summer... it gets treated by green thumb but the owner has contacted me ... He's happy to lose the bottom part of the lawn

Any idea

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New Stihl HLA135 Long Reach Cordless Hedge trimmer !

New Stihl HLA135 Long Reach Hedge trimmer

HLA 135 Long-reach hedge trimmer - 249 cm, 145° adjustable cordless hedge trimmer with 24" / 60 cm blade length (stihl.co.uk)

anybody else getting one

can't wait !

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Schedule

Evening all, I am taking my gardening buisness to full time starting this spring, last year I did all my lawns over two days (approx 40) later returning to some of these property's I mow at a later date to weed and do hedges... as I didn't have enoug

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Bests nails to use

I've just bitten the bulliet and blown £500 on a dewalt first fix nailer for my fencing jobs 

I plan to use 50mm on the feather edge and 63 mm on the arris rails etc which will need to galvanised 

There are lots of mixed reviews about branded nails and

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Replacing a lawn

One of our clients has two areas of lawn either side of their front door (its a large Georgian house - over 2 acres of gardens) - 4 years ago the owner decided they wanted to turn one side into a wild flower meadow - we've succeeded with that!!! They

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Garden Design groups & software

Hello lovely fellow designers, I’m looking for some garden design advice from you. I’m in Yorkshire in the UK (photo of mine of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales), and I’m about to start my own garden design business up but I don’t seem to be able to fin

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Wild garlic

Last year I took over the maintenance of a garden, there is a border approx 30m X 2m that had loads of wild garlic growing, I spent ages digging the bulbs out but already there is loads appearing again, has anyone got any ideas how this can be contro

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Block paving

I have a few customers with large block paving areas and they always have weeds and stuff growing between the block. Comon problem with block paving.

 But what do I treat the business to?? a ​Westermann block paving cleaner or do I go for a good press

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