To ask how much do you pay for a gardener

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Just that really

I work as a gardener in NE England. I work with my husband and it’s £35 for the two of us together for an hour. We provide all of our own equipment for that. For regular customers we also provide some free services some as lawn treatment and weed control. Some gardens we visit once a fortnight and others a few times a week. It varies depending on the size of the garden and what the customer wants. Other gardens we do once or twice a year as they just need specific jobs doing.

I'm not disagreeing they have to make a living - that is exactly why I am questioning how so many posters are getting 1hr of gardening every 2 weeks for £20-30. It can't be in their gardeners interests. My point was I can't find anyone to do that and I am surprised people can.

I appear to have offended by also saying I have the same issue with cleaners and trying to make a jokey solution. Apologies.

It’s worth asking if any of the neighbours have gardeners. We do a one hour slots but they are only worth it if we do a few slots on the same street or the same area on the same day.

£20 fortnightly.

Although only really cuts the grass that takes 20 minutes. Might do a bit of leaf collection in the autumn and a bit of weed spraying in the spring/summer but only a few minutes' worth of that.

Ok, points to you for coming back to apologise!

To answer your question - well, obviously it depends on everything else they're doing, doesn't it? If I can do one hour at numbers 1, 3, 4, 6 and 9 on the same street, I might be fine. If I'm doing numbers 2, 5, 8 and 10 in the afternoon, I'm delighted. What isn't ok is doing one hour for you, then driving for an hour to my next job.

£200 for eight hours

SE £20 an hour.

£19 per hour - East Midlands

£30 once a month, probably an hour. She’s fab.

It's impossible to price per hour, my husband quotes on the job which is required. An hour weeding and planting is not the same as wielding heavy clippers and stretching whilst balancing up a ladder! Waste disposal has to be paid for which many customers don't think of. Then with petrol tools, maintenance of tools, a van to run and maintain, tax, NI, liability insurance etc £20/hr does not provide minimum wage never mind a sustainable living wage!

SE, I pay £30 an hour for skilled gardener. Once or twice a year I spend £15 an hour for someone to come and hook the summer flowers out, trim back the bushes etc.

30EUR/hour - he comes and mows for a couple of hours every 2 weeks through summer/sprint/autumn, then Autumn/Winter/Spring I get him to do something bigger every month or so like trim the hedges or weed the drive etc.