gardeners prices

[BlackGnome77]

I have just started my own gardening round in stepney green east london .I charge £8.50 is this to much.I do all my work with hand tools no pesticides or chemicals .Usaully ask customers if they have thier own mower .This is because i tend to walk to the jobs or use publictransport

My gardeners charge £20 per hour per person. They are good value for money.
I'm on the Cheshire / South Manchester border.
My previous gardener wanted £60 for 90 minutes.

I paid £10 per hour when I provided all the tools. That was three years ago. You are not charging enough.

We pay £40 for 3 hours

There's isn't a chance in hell you could hire a professional anybody for £8.50 an hour in London, that's way too little! I live way up north and would expect to pay someone £15 minimum. As a pp said, you need to factor in holiday pay, sickness, insurance etc into this. Have a look on gumtree and Facebook to see what other gardeners are charging in similar areas then put your rate up accordingly.

We pay £10 per hour in the eats midlands

am not gettting that much work .Ido all my gardening work with hand tools .do not use chemicals or pesticides and usaully walk or go by public transport.As only have tools & no machinery to carry.Have only been getting jobs from local supermarket notice board.I know there are plenty of people in my area that want gardeners i.e bethnal green mile end bow victotia park etc

Charge £12 a hour of you are using the clients tools and not disposing or any waste

Get leaflets printed up and put them through the doors of houses in your target area.

Don't take on one off garden clearances. To make money your need to have lots of regular clients who need a set numbers of hours a fortnight , who live near each other . Preferably those who don't need you at at a fixed time.

It's not the best time of year to set up a gardening business I'm afraid .

I don't think you're charging enough. Our gardener charges £10 in the north west but we always pay him between £12 and £15 depending on what cash i have on me at the time. He does provide all the equipment.
We've always thought he was v cheap!

You're at a disadvantage using customers tools. Our gardener uses our tools and its become a problem for us. The cost of having to buy the right equipment and repairing it when it gets broken is becoming a significant additional cost which means we are having to reduce the hours for our gardener.

I use my own tools which i carry with me the only thing i ask is if customers would like grass cutting they provide mower.Other then that am happy to do most things by hand or hand tools

have own tools travel by public transport or walk to jobs only ask for customers to provide mower if grass needs cutting

But to get a good finish on grass you need a strimmer or edging shears and a rake , not just a mower.

Most people who pay for a gardener want their grass and hedge cut very neatly.

Round here the gardeners charge £30 per hour for 2 people. That said they work flat out mowing and hacking the hedges. They do no gardening as such. Ie no weeding , digging, mulching etc.

I don't know how anyone cuts hedges all day every day. It's a brutally tough job and those petrol driven trimmers are bloody heavy. After four hours of it, I'm knackered.

Four hours of hedge cutting holly? That's hard work .

I've got rid of some of my hedges and do the rest with my little lightweight hand shears . I stroll along in my straw hat, white gloves, pearls and floral dress going 'snip snip snip ' in a ladylike fashion

at Kristina!!

My hedge cutting is the very opposite of ladylike. Think: a mad woman in combat pants wielding a trimmer and swearing a lot. I usually end up with privet everywhere - in my hair, my shoes and always, always in my bloody bra!! I wear a high neck top and it still happens! What's that about?!

We have a very nice but slightly bonkers very safety conscious neighbour . He cuts his side of our mutual privet hedge wearing a helmet , safely goggles, ear defenders, safety gloves, steel toe cap boots and these trousers that tree surgeon use with metal in the legs .

As I do the other side in my lovely outfit pictured above, listening to radio 4 podcast on my phone.

I must get a sneaky photo of him next time .

I laughed out loud. That is absolutely brilliant, especially the metal trousers. I did not even know such things existed. (I can well believe tree surgeons would need them, but perhaps not those with a basic hedge trimmer!!)

What a picture it would make to get both of you.

According to DH they are called chain saw trousers. And they don't have metal in them, they are some kind of special fabric to protect your leg if the chain saw slips

So now you know

Next times he's out I will pose in my muddy joggers and old fleece lovely frock and get the kids to take a photo

He also walks his dog down our ( fully tarmaced ) street wearing hillwalking gear, hiking boots and a head-torch. The dog wears hi vis and a collar that lights up .

I suspect has an ice axe, crampons and emergency flares in his mini rucksack . The owner that is, not the dog .

Blackgnome77, we've just deleted those pesky multiple posts. Apologies - this is a tech issue and one that they are working on correcting.

That photo will be interesting!. Maybe professional gardeners need to be paid more so as to be dressed in the right gardening gear!
I'm clearly underdressed for gardening with old trousers and a t shirt and mismatched gardening gloves,
A while ago someone posted a link in this forum to an episode of the Good Life with Penelope Keith dressing for gardening. The other day I found out that this was filmed in a house round the corner from here!

Where abouts are you am in london i walk to most of my jobs or public transport .Do all weeding by hand tools and hedgecutting do not use pesticides .The only thing i ask of customers is if they require grasscutting they provide a lawnmower.Iwork hard at it as am not getting paid much so it is in my interest to be quick

Where abouts are you am in london i walk to most of my jobs or public transport .Do all weeding by hand tools and hedgecutting do not use pesticides .The only thing i ask of customers is if they require grasscutting they provide a lawnmower.Iwork hard at it as am not getting paid much so it is in my interest to be quick

Where abouts are you am in london i walk to most of my jobs or public transport .Do all weeding by hand tools and hedgecutting do not use pesticides .The only thing i ask of customers is if they require grasscutting they provide a lawnmower.Iwork hard at it as am not getting paid much so it is in my interest to be quick