Who likes gardening at home?

[Jake]

I love it, watering the plants and pretending I know what I'm doing...

 

[Jimroot]

Tried growing vegetables, slugs have eaten the beans and radish, carrots seem to have rotted away, pak choi has been pecked to death by birds :-( only the peas currently surviving. Next time ill net them and do complimentary planting

 

[TolishAPurd]

If you have the petrol powered tools you might want to consider adding it to your unofficial list of services. Gardening can be very lucrative if you charge right. Unfortunately too many knobheads offering there services for £10 per hour. But there is so much demand for it that its very easy to stick to your guns and get only the best customers.

 

[Smurf]

I hate gardening but do a few now and then when the price is right.

It has been said facilities management - grounds keeping you can earn big bucks if you invest heavily and know that market well.

 

[Jimroot]

I did have a petrol mower but it got flood damaged in storage. I might get another, but it's all money invested and not much return yet...

If I did it, it would be a mowing round only. Clearance and the other jobs home owners want you to do are the toughest nastiest jobs, in my experience.

But a bad weather add-on would be best

 

[Jake]

I would consider it as an add on, but I wouldn't know how to charge..

 

[cheapncheerful]

love gardening at home but...never get time usually far too knackered...

in fact came into night and did a bit straight away as if I sit down...I sit down...

yeh jimroot my stuff gets eaten a lot as well...

and as usual cheapie bought cheap and as usual...it was ****...got about three peas out of a packet...will pay more next year...

as for work mentioned today I have cut grass even though I dont really want to do it if it comes my way it comes my way....its all money at the end of the day.../emoticons/biggrin.png

and cheapie raided a skip today...ahhhh I dont like raiding skips but this one was out of site...some nice big plastic plant pots and a couple of nice big jars....but the best was a hanging basket off the shopping channel at £12 like new.../emoticons/biggrin.png

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[Jake]

Ha ha cheap you make me laugh, you old dog you,

Rummaging through skips :laugh:

What's next? The food bank!

 

[cheapncheerful]

did that a few years ago at iceland hate waste...

tesco have just prosecuted someone for stealing from their bins ...

I WOULD bring in a law to fine any company putting food in a bin without a real reason..

have they not heard of freezers or knocking down the price....

yeh that reminds me of the two mill house and he bought the discounted bread.../emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[Jimroot]

Can find some gems in skips. A friend once found loads of tv studio stuff, high quality furniture, nothing wrong with it. I've found a few pieces. One mans junk could be another treasure, these days folk are more likely to sell it even if its just a few quid.

 

[Jimroot]

I can't bring myself to put slug pellets down. I was collecting them twice a day and moving them but they won the battle in the end

 

[cheapncheerful]

yeh I do put slug pellets at the back out of site but its a waste of time I have been scrunching them for ten years but if you pickup a pot it will have one on it...

I have had some success some years with veg but not really worth the effort...

although raspberries red currents and black currents all seem okay...

usually get some peas but very late this year..

looks like a good year for fruit on trees...

and the lad has bought a juicer...so the pears wont be wasted../emoticons/biggrin.png

every year...I RUN out of time in the garden..

actually got two new recliners that are great just something missing....

 

[Jimroot]

After the bit if sun we had, it's been sodden last few weeks, ideal slug breeding weather i guess- anyone for slug racing

Thinking Guinness advert...

I've heard complimentary planting working. I used to have an allotment, but the only guys that did well were there every day, some produced amazing full plots if award winning veg and flowers, never really figured out how, I used to grow mostly weeds and hole ridden spuds with the odd bean and garlic

 

[cheapncheerful]

ahh spuds yep cant go wrong with spuds..can you....well a lot of mine are a bit small but they are always handy when they stop selling sacks of tatas locally..

 

[Jake]

I meant you'll probably start using food banks cheap!

 

[cheapncheerful]

nah its easier from the bins...

funny enough just watching the moaning of life with karl pilkington and ...

he was with a homeless man and he got an untouched large ham and pineapple pizza out of a bin..

followed by an apple pie..

this worlds mad..

 

[Jake]

nah its easier from the bins...
funny enough just watching the moaning of life with karl pilkington and ...

he was with a homeless man and he got an untouched large ham and pineapple pizza out of a bin..

followed by an apple pie..

this worlds mad..

You never know what you might find...! Cheaper than dominoes!

 

[Jimroot]

I had a skip when I moved house few years ago... Each day we'd fill it, each night it would be half emptied! They even had the old mattress. In the end it went half full, could have bought a micro skip.

Conversely, was trying find a cheap but new mattress on gumtree, people are selling used ones for more than I wanted to pay for new

 

[cheapncheerful]

a top cheapie gardening tip for those out there with green fingers...

especially after xmas holidays...keep a quick look in the garden recycling bin as you never know what you will find...

I mean okay..the flowers have long since gone but er...theres bugger all wrong with the bulbs...

and my orchid on the window sill is now 18 months old and growing great no flower of course but...it was free..

in fact all my house plants are off custys..

wife hates em...

just got my lillies out of his bin over the road ..as soon as one flower opens he bins em...all I do is break off the open flower and the rest are good to go..

its worth it just to annoy the wife as she hates lillies.../emoticons/biggrin.png

of course...I PRETEND I am throwing some imaginary thing into the bin as you never know..:specs:specs:specs

 

[Jimroot]

I always have a squiz in skips on passing, as you never know, probably was a gem, but some early bird pecked it before us. You hear of people finding priceless antiques and paintings... could find your retirement fund in a skip

 

[cheapncheerful]

that one today they move in and the lot goes in the skip what ever is hanging around...just clear the site...