It's defeated me :-( - now 5 times smaller than yesterday morning - how much is it going to cost me................

[FAQinglovely]

to get someone in to remove the remains of the pampas grass???

It's now approx 3ft across and about 3ft tall.

I've spent 5hrs on it today, spent several hours yesterday too - but my body is now shouting at me that's it's had enough (shoulders, back, neck, legs all aching like they've never done before - even moving house on my own with 2 friends didn't hurt this much).

So - how much is it going to cost (roughly) - in East Midlands/East Anglia (depending on who you talk to) - and who do I ask? Been browsing Yell and I can't work out "who" I need to ring....

Gardeners? I think my parents gardener is around £15 ph

my neighbour got help the aged /age concern in (she's not an OAP) they do odd jobs in gardens for cash contributions, they did loads of digging and cutting back. It's worth ringing them.

well, my gardner charges GBP 100 for a full days work and I reckon he would take no more than a couple of hours to finish your job so no more than GBP 30 tops?

I would either get a couple of numbers from the advert board at the local garden centre or look for a general gardner out of yellow pages and then get them to give you a rough verbal quote over the phone

good luck!

FAQ we had a huge Pampass grass in our back gardnen when we moved in.
Our gardener charges £12 an hour and it only took her an hour or so to get rid of it. She managed to lever it out.
Leave it to the professionals!

Look in the local paper. There are loads of guys looking for casual work atm and one will have it out in no time for a few £.

I read on your other thread that you rent. Why not contact the landlord and ask them. I would love you to go halves on getting rid of some of the overgrown rubbish in the house we rent out. It is nice to get a tennant who looks after the garden

I'd love to have a Tennant to look after my garden.....

really? tenants that tidy up gardens are popular??? ooo good

I have a friend who's going to be getting back to me in the next day or so about someone she knows who'll probably come and get it out for me. She's runs her own garden busines "Prim and Proper - Lady Gardeners"

I had one like that ten years ago. I got fed up with it one day & took the shears to it - it ended up looking very much like your second picture. Then my brother took his chain saw to it & got it down to ground level. It stayed like that for a few years while until DS decided to have a go at it - he was about 13 I think. He is nothing if not persistent & went at it with spade fork & a massive sort of hook thing we borrowed from my FIL and got rid of every bit - though the lawn took a while to recover, but now you can't see where it was.

I must take a photo of it tomorrow actually before it gets removed - it resembles and over sized hedgehog from one side

I think a previous owner had attempted to burn it back at some point, and then the new stuff had sprouted on top of the burn stumps..........as there were roots 1ft up!!!!

I could have done with a chainsaw (unfortuantely already having purchased hedge trimmer and strimmer to sort out other bits of the garden plus hosepipe and other bits and bobs I couldn't stretch to one ).

I spent about 9hrs on it in total..........

but it is DOOMED.

I couldn't sleep last night as my right shoulder was so painful, it's a bit better now, but still not right..........I will not forgive it

Thankfully it's on the corner of a pebble covered "garden" - so once it's al removed I can chuck a bit of soil in the hole get a few stones and chuck it over - no lawn to damage LOL

I was going to ask if you could just burn it down!

I did set fire to it on Monday - but I got scared not long after it had really started to get going and put it out (though juddging how dense and matted with roots etc it was further down tbh I don't think I'd have got very far with burning it anyhow.

Actually most of it was SOIL 1ft up!