On 2 Jan, 09:43, Charlie Pridham wrote:
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My son started doing work like this, but quickly found that unless
someone wanted him for at least a half day he could never get enough
hours in to make enough to keep body and soul together, he now avoids any
"small" tidying jobs as he would have to charge so much (he is still too
young to have the nerve!) he finds people will pay for large heavy jobs
so that is what he does, particularly clearing as he has a waste licence.
I know other people who do contract gardening for holiday lets, hotels
etc and they all do a minimum 2 hours at a time. So it sounds like you
need someone topping up a pension or similar (do check your insurance as
they are unlikely to have their own)

Yes, and you still do need to know that they know what they're doing.
There's still this attitude amongst employers of both jobbing and full
time gardeners that gardening is an unskilled job. They think and so
do a lot of the so called gardeners that pruning is just hacking a bit
off things now and again - they don't know why nor do they know what
to expect as a result and they don't watch the results (consequences)
of their pruning as they develop. That's just one example. A
significant amount of my work when I was self employed was rescuing
gardens after a few years of these people.