to think £20 an hour is too much for a gardener?

[toastlover100]

My elderly gran has just told me that her gardener has put his hourly rate up from £15 to £20.

This seems like a lot to me, and a bit percentage increase too!

Sounds reasonable to me for SW.

I have a guy I call Gary the Grass. Costs 15 quid to do the large garden and strim and tidy up. He is not a landscaper, he comes in, does the work and goes. Great guy.

But I suppose people want gardeners and cleaners to work for a lot less per hour than them. Swat off.

Oh and by the way Gary the Grass just strims and cuts the grass nothing else. If I want more I pay more.

Fabulous job.

I’ve never paid any gardener an hourly rate...or most other tradesman tbh. It’s a price per job which, for pricier ones, I do haggle with.

For random non-skilled work (painting the fence, cleaning the patio/gutters etc) I’ve got into the habit of asking on Facebook selling sites - posting the job with a picture and asking if anyone wants it for £20 (or whatever). It always gets taken, quickly.

If I had mature shrubs to prune or a nice, ornamental garden, I’d probably employ ‘a gardener’.

For my patch of grass, most often used as a football pitch, any bloke with a mower (or teenager with his dad’s mower) will do and I’ll go with the cheapest offer.

@bofsy1 do you mean Gary the grass , like the train driver in Ivor the engine was Jones the steam ? Bit worried for Gary’s well being going forwards - otherwise