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Where can I get cheap garden help

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Newyearnewme2019 · 05/10/2019 14:58

We've just moved to an old house and the garden needs loads of work doing - mainly cutting back shrubs hedges repositioning fences weeding EVERYTHING. imagine a 200ft garden that has been left to do its own thing for a couple of years!!!

What I'm wondering is... is there a college or apprenticeships that are looking for areas
like this to send their students to get their hands dirty and being practical?

I'm thinking along the lines of like hairdressers at college where joe public can get it done and they get the practice and it's cheaper?

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Soola · 06/10/2019 13:20

@SpongeBobJudgeyPants yes it can be looking for cheap labour but I’ve also seen on Next.door friendship evolve from people helping each other. In particular a retired gentleman, widowed and living in a flat missing his garden and a busy family having a garden that he now tends to.

wonkylegs · 06/10/2019 13:34

We have a 1.5 acre garden that had been left to its own devices for too long when we moved her and we are just about getting it to a manageable state 6years down the road (2yrs of house renovation first)
We have prioritised paid garden help as soon as we could but otherwise invested in tools and bloody hard work. We hired a mini digger for a weekend to do some of the soil shifting and root removal but planned exactly so we knew how to make the most of the time with the digger.
It's tough as it's a job that never ends but you need to prioritise what's needed and stick to a plan and realise unless you throw a lot of money and time at it it's not going to happen overnight.
Straight forward clearance back to ground is generally back breaking but easy enough and you can pay an odd job person to help at a cheaper rate than an actual gardener.
If you can dispose on site without being a nuisance it'll be cheaper to compost or burn than to pay for disposal.
It's more tricky if you want to keep good plants, get rid of weeds etc as that requires somebody who knows what they are doing to help you or for you to do it yourself.
You're more likely to find people offering free or cheap plants (from garden clearance, excess seedlings, cuttings) than labour so think about that as a way to save money when you get to that point.

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