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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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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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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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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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