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Dedicated Garden Waste Collection/Garden Clearance Business

Hi all,

A few quick questions for anyone running garden waste or clearance work:

1. What vehicle setup works best for fast, one-person jobs?

2. Do private firms use their own green waste bins, and how do you manage them?

3. How do you deal with overfilled dumpy b

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Robot mowers and rabbits

Ideas please..

The garden I look after is mown by a couple of large very heavy robot mowers - they are generally my friends - they remove the bore of cutting the lawns which used to take 2 full days a fortnight with a large ride on and smaller mowers/

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Radio ear defenders

Hi all, following on from the previous discussion on lack of enthusiasium at this time of the year, there wa a mention of listening to music or podcasts etc. Of course to do this we will need some decent ear defenders. I have just had a quick look to

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Using membranes on a slope

I really dislike using membranes generally to surpress weeds but I need to plant some hydrangea's on a slope which continually attracts weeds but the area is very difficult to access to maintain yet provides a main view from a main window .

The area w

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Pricing

We are reviewing our charging for next year as from Jan.

Majority of our work is commercial and we attain high realistic rates but we do have a small number of long standing high end private clients, we will not take any new domestic work on due to th

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Weeding/planting knife

Looking for carbon steel weeding/planting knife not made from stainless steel. All the major makes seem to be stainless which from reviews all  bend easily unless are used in television soil! Only one that have found is by Darlac which has awful revi

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Dirty subject.

Hi all, I am just going to put it out here. DOG TURD. What do others do with it being on a lawn. Do you shovel it up, pick it up in a bag or mow around, or even over it?

I ask as I do not have a dog, therefore do not pick it up. Years ago I had client

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Waterproofs

What waterproofs are you using? Which do you recommend or don't recommend?

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AS 84 mulchmeister - anyone used/got one?

As title please guys, anyone got one or used one? Debating buying one, used to have a hayter condor which I sold at the beginning of the year, but been asked to do a few jobs recently, which require very overgrown areas to be cut back, usual, meter p

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Bird poo

A commercial site I look after has had a kestrel move in up high near the entrance to the building. 

The owners are happy for the bird to be there but the issue is bird poo on the block paving by the entrance. They know all the time it is there it is

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Battery hedge trimmer expected life span

Hello,

 

Bought a battery (18v) no name hedge trimmer about 5 years ago (3/4 inch tooth spacing. Used it on bramble, some really thick ones for many hours. And lots of managing thin wild overgrowth around fences ... (cuttingvthin branches). Used it in

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Weed killer for lawn?

Hi, can anyone recommend a good weedkiller for use on a lawn please?   Been using Weedol Lawn, but the formula seems to have changed and I'm being told it's not as good.   I don't normally do lawncare, hence asking.   Thank you!  Sarah.

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Bulb suppliers

Large bulb planting job, trawled the net but many of the suppliers have poor Trustpilot reviews, those that come up ok their prices are excessive. Appreciate you get what you pay for but looking for some middle ground or do we go down the B&Q or gard

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190m of hedge trimming

Hello all,

pricing up 190 meters of hedge cutting. About 8 ft, not been touched since last year. I'm thinking £875 + £100 for waste.  
Do you think I'm right ?

Probably 16 dumpy bags of waste.  We get charged £40 a ton but we don't have a big enough tra

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Review of Makita 40v XGT garden tool range

Hi All. I recently had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with Chris from Makita, testing out lots of machines from Makita's XGT 40v outdoor tool range. After being well impressed with the tools I have decided to do a review of a selection of my

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A first for me....

A first for me... gardening with engine hoist, rotten wooden planters being replaced with galvanised bespoke ones  - all went to plan, 2 done, 4 more to do when the blacksmth delivers enough bolts to assemble the planters... which he delivered as fla

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Auger or bulb planter

Got a job I hate this Autumn, planting bulbs.

They are going in soil not turf, we have a bulb planter but find it difficult to use so considering a hand earth auger. Do have a petrol posthole borer but the augers are too large for bulbs. Any thoughts

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grass cutting

how is the grass cutting going i dont do many now, bu the ones i do have onley been cut once in 6 weeks, even my own has gon 4 weeks and that was just to cut the seed heads off at a high setting also do people still have the lawns fed in the drought

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Large building site plot maintainence.

Been asked to maintain several plots for a national builder. The plots are landscaped and ready for sale I just have to keep them looking ok, mowing weeding etc. Do people charge a premium for this, I assume the house builder wants it as cheap as pos

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Sourcing and ordering plants for a client?

Hi there, 

I'm a newby to gardening as a job (just started end of April), but things are going well so far. 

I've got 3 clients each of whome are asking me to buy in plants to plant up areas of their gardens I've cleared. 

I've breezily said yeah fine,

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