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A new, free guide to the many specialist nurseries and hidden gardens across East Dorset is now available.
Celebrating a proud heritage that dates back to the 1800s, ‘Specialist Nurseries and Hidden Gardens’ not only explains why nurseries…
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Many people experience the frustration of having their lawn invaded by weeds, there may be just one dandelion to start with, but let it flower and seed and there will soon be a hundred!
So…
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Whether you carry out your own gardening, or employ a gardener or have a contract with a garden maintenance business, ALL gardens create waste - this is an undeniable FACT.
So what can you do with this waste?
Larger gardens may find…
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Some people will read the title of this blog and think HOW can hiring a professional gardener or maintenance person to maintain my garden actually SAVE me this much time?…
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10 Month Lawn Care Guide
Here is a little guide that we have put together on how to look after you lawn over a 10 month period
January
There is generally little…
Hi there for those who don’t know me, I’m Dave Jessop, Operations Manager for The Marshalls Register. In light of Marshalls attending the Creating Landscapes show in a couple of…
Resin bonded aggregates can be installed over any hard surface ideally tarmac or concrete,installing over block paving, slabs or crazy paving may lead to cracking.
Initially any cracks or small holes must be repaired using a expoxy…
Hi to you all, it is the just few days into 2011, after reading here one of the threads at the forum about maintenance of lawn edging - I thought that you must here this story.
It is a real story, about my father in law that may…
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Welcome to week four in my series of posts on starting and running a landscape or gardening business.
Covered so far:
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I've been itching to let you in on a little…
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Open forum activity
"Since we had a casual worker damage himself with a Hayterette 30 years ago, I've always taken the view that Murphy's Law is waiting to strike!!"
"Plants are living things and as such,like people, they die due to a number of factors. There is always a failure percentage (I forget what that percentage is) when planting. A case in point is that I planted an Acacia dealbata last year in a client…"
"The chances of anything going wrong is slim but if it does go wrong then you will wished you have taken out the appropriate insurance. Also you must have a risks assessment in place as well as showing him how to operate the machinery properly and sa…"
"It's interesting and a relief to know I'm not the only one so badly affected by ivy. I have worn a mask once to deal with it, and the client was a bit mortified she'd even asked me to do the ivy (and she didn't ask me again, but I'm not that bothere…"
"I have known people involved with horses and ponies be extremely cautious around ragwort and witnessed cattle happily munching cherry laurel and yew hedges with seemingly no ill effects . "
"A guy I know lifted his trouser leg to show me his own leg underneath that he had snagged on a thorn in his garden, resulting in an infection, which required half the flesh to be cut away to save his life.
If you saw his tidy garden you would not th…"
If you saw his tidy garden you would not th…"
"Put the Weibang through it's paces on Friday......very happy wish I'd bought one last year before I bought the Hayter pro......"
"Ivy does the same to me. I use a breathing mask when working on ivy
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"That should have read as “In years gone bye people generally wouldn’t have worried about it”."
"Thanks everyone for their input. The advice was very useful.
I have managed to pick up an Eliet Major shredder, for what I though was a very good price second hand & now just getting used to working with it.
As for the ladder, I went with a 3M tripo…"
I have managed to pick up an Eliet Major shredder, for what I though was a very good price second hand & now just getting used to working with it.
As for the ladder, I went with a 3M tripo…"
"If your filling it in with hardcore, take your time & layer it in as flat as you can. Don't just pour in barrow loads of rubbish. As David says, then compact it down. I would infill the gaps between the hardcore with sub soil or something. Just keep…"
"Ivy can be nasty. Years ago whilst doing tree work I used to get covered in the stuff. Since then I have become allergic to Ivy. Not good in our professions! It's the tiny hairs on it, they bring me out in a rash & irritate.
When I know that I will…"
When I know that I will…"
"In years gone bye people generally wouldn’t about it, these days if he is under eighteen and has an accident working unsupervised with power tools, such as the strimmer, I guess you would end up going to hell and back for arranging it all, particul…"
"The one that gets me is strimming common hogweed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_sphondylium even if I'm careful I still get splattered and have lovely blisters for a few weeks. Not particularly painful, but unsightly. Best prevention is l…"
"While not poisonous you do have to be careful if you ever cut a lot of euphorbia. I was on a gardening course not so long ago and a guy leading the course said he has cut euphorbia for years with no ill effect until one day it did affect him very ba…"
"Is the monkshood wolfsbane plant easy to identify when young?"
Mower blade fighting back
Both bolts on the blade of my izy are stuck fast. Tried the usual - wd40, tapping bolt heads with hammer, whacking wrench with hammer - but no joy. Anyone got any ideas to try before I resort to professional help?
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Estimating packages
Hi all, I operate a landscape construction business and am looking at ways to speed up and streamline the estimating and quoting aspect of my business. What estimating packages are people using, both free and paid for and what are the advantages and…
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Yippee .....Stihl battery gear for evaluation
With many thanks to Stihl and our Dealer, we've been give the whole range of this years battery powered gear for short term evaluation, including multiple batteries and backpack battery and fast chargers.The only item not available was the new Kombi…
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Is it safe to cut near or around posionous plants?
I have a job cutting the grass in a churchyard that contains several yew trees and bushes.My question is that since Yew trees are deadly posionous, and their foliage is scattered all over the ground isnt there any danger in cutting up bit of the…
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