Hi Everyone

I have quite a large garden. I'm away from home quite a lot and I keep
losing control of it. It tends to get overgrown and all sorts of
routine jobs get ignored.

I'm thinking about hiring someone to come in once or twice a month to
help me keep on top of it and was just wondering if anyone here has
done the same?

Any tips to pass on? How much should I expect to pay? (I'm in
Berkshire). In the main I'm talking about routine jobs like cutting
hedges and grass, weeding beds, strimming etc.

Thanks

Will

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Hi Everyone

I have quite a large garden. I'm away from home quite a lot and I keep
losing control of it. It tends to get overgrown and all sorts of
routine jobs get ignored.

I'm thinking about hiring someone to come in once or twice a month to
help me keep on top of it and was just wondering if anyone here has
done the same?

Any tips to pass on? How much should I expect to pay? (I'm in
Berkshire). In the main I'm talking about routine jobs like cutting
hedges and grass, weeding beds, strimming etc.

I think your best bet is to get quotes from three or four people and to ask
neighbours or friends using a similar service. For example, Googling
brought this up
SMG Gardening
Tom Seaman
16 stonefield park
maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 6ES
01628 540668
http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory....p?strCompanyNa
me=SMG%20Gardening

Website: SMG Gardening
Date of entry: 14/09/2005 11:52:48

Here, in Devon, we pay someone to cut the grass and some of the hedges and
he charges about £12 per hour and uses his own equipment. I'd think
Berkshire would be more expensive.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

wrote:
Hi Everyone

I have quite a large garden. I'm away from home quite a lot and I keep
losing control of it. It tends to get overgrown and all sorts of
routine jobs get ignored.

I'm thinking about hiring someone to come in once or twice a month to
help me keep on top of it and was just wondering if anyone here has
done the same?

Any tips to pass on? How much should I expect to pay? (I'm in
Berkshire). In the main I'm talking about routine jobs like cutting
hedges and grass, weeding beds, strimming etc.

Thanks

Will

Try a local horticultural college. Students at one near here have a day
a week in their third year to work in a garden of their choice. They are
keen and inexpensive. This is how I found my wonderfuil helper: she's
still here about ten years later!

HTH

Hugh


--

Hugh Newbury

Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset

I'm thinking about hiring someone to come in once or twice a month to
help me keep on top of it and was just wondering if anyone here has
done the same?

Back in Nottingham when I was too busy working (I had two full time jobs) we
simply put an advert in the local newsagent window. The man we took on was a
local general labourer / handyman and did a reasonable job of simple
gardening tasks. He was also a lot cheaper than paying a professional
commercial rates, plus he lived local to us so no travel expenses etc. Best
to get a reference from them though and follow it up - just in case you are
inviting the local crook around! From then on we often noticed him working
on other nearby properties too, pointing walls, trimming hedges etc. Worked
out very well for us.
--
David
.... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk
.... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

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Hi Everyone

I have quite a large garden. I'm away from home quite a lot and I keep
losing control of it. It tends to get overgrown and all sorts of
routine jobs get ignored.

I'm thinking about hiring someone to come in once or twice a month to
help me keep on top of it and was just wondering if anyone here has
done the same?

Any tips to pass on? How much should I expect to pay? (I'm in
Berkshire). In the main I'm talking about routine jobs like cutting
hedges and grass, weeding beds, strimming etc.

Thanks

Will

I am paying £15 per hour for some chaps to help with my Outer London garden.

They do 3 hours every fortnight. As they have more 'industrial'
equipment and are young and fit, they seem to do a lot in a short time.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

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Hi Everyone


I'm thinking about hiring someone to come in once or twice a month to
help me keep on top of it and was just wondering if anyone here has
done the same?

Any tips to pass on? How much should I expect to pay? (I'm in
Berkshire). In the main I'm talking about routine jobs like cutting
hedges and grass, weeding beds, strimming etc.

My "gardener" stopped visiting me when, being short of cash, I paid him by
cheque. Seems that his business manager wife didn't like it.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK



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My "gardener" stopped visiting me when, being short of cash, I paid him by
cheque. Seems that his business manager wife didn't like it.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK



My gardener (well gardening firm really) is happy with a cheque...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.