"It does my head in!" - Running a Gardening Business
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- I run my own gardening business and grass cutting round but sometimes it can be tough!
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Down south and yep, rain rain rain.
Central Scotland here, I had to give my business up last year due to weather here, from March to October last year I must’ve all in done about 12 gardens. From Oct till present we’ve had 11 storms, the worst being isha and storms still continuing to battle us. Sick to the back teeth of it
We are all cheesed off with it buddy, but when your a gardener........I can imagine how you feel.
It’s so frustrating, but you have to soldier on. I’ve spent 40 yrs or so of my working life being effected by weather. When that sun shine we will forget all about it. Chin up
Totally agree mate I’m a self employed Gardener in Ireland and it is relentless here the rain. Farmers cant plant either so there will be a shortage of spuds in the shops this year
Nothing new there then haha
Man I'm working in an old estate in Ireland I used to do what you're doing and it's hard going.
I now look after Victorian walled gardens and it's heavenly, we have a nursery for the wet day's inside Polly tunnels and they're heated and air conditioning. Also a workshop for repairing and maintaining tools etc
It's hard going as a self employed gardener in Ireland
Here in Stoke-on-Trent it's relentless, the lawns are saturated. I have a thriving business with soon to be 7 of us but I've had to take part time employed work as I can't afford to lose pay all the time. Very hard for us gardeners. I totally hear you.
Its been a tough few months with the weather, getting slowly worse and worse, they say its the wettest 18 months on record. I hear this song up and down the country, its stressful. luckily we have not lost any days, but we have lost a couple of jobs, we started our main cutting season at the beginning of march last year. this year we are on our second rotation, constantly having to message customers telling them we are having to postpone until it drys out a bit. a few lawns we do are like swamps or lakes, and just can not be cut. its awful.
worst time in 25 years of being a self-employed gardener i’m getting short tempered because i’m completely sick of it lost so much money last few weeks the ground in my area is always waterlogged can hardly get on the borders still we soldier on because wouldn’t give it up for anything 👍
Been same here all week ground saturated here in Livingston Scotland. Weather better this weekend so just cracked on with first cuts but rest of the week back to rain 😢
Not been so bad for me! Weather has been bad but not to bad have been able to carry on!!! Hoping it improves as we move into April!
Down here in Cornwall its been unbelievable...never had so much missed work and been gardening for 9 years.
Two gardeners i know have had to pack things in for regular pay each month as its becoming far to unpredictable regarding paid work
Im in Cumbria and quite a few lawns are like swamps here. Went to visit a regular beginning of last week for the first cut and their garden was so wet i think you couldve kept fish in the border at the bottom of their lawn.
My business is in South Wales and ive traded my van in for a submarine !! Keep plugging away buddy
Really feel your pain and frustration,I’m in my 3rd year as a gardener and down 50% on jobs because the lawns especially are just waterlogged but I’ve got to stick with it and hope it clears up and quickly.
Keep the videos coming as I watch and follow quite a few of you guys and the comments I do take on board 😎😎👍🏻
Happy Easter Adam
10/10 on the thumbnail Mate ✅
Love it! No Picnic down south back to back, walll to wall rain, Raining now FFS
Steve🇬🇧
I was pretty pleased with the thumbnail so glad you've mentioned it haha cheers
Agree mate, but the bigger gardens pop on your waterproofs, some tunes on and crack on. Understand how annoying it can me though 🤣
Generally what I do to be honest and get a good soaking but it was particularly bad that day 🤣
I always say I never stress over cutting grass. But in all honesty I do. For exactly the reasons your saying. Bloody wet weather. Nightmare. I just hope we get a better summer than we did last year!
I feel the same mate, I’m running a gardening bussines in Scotland for 10 years.. today managed to do one garden £70. tommorow change of plans 0- patio power washing.
I hear ya m8,i do same as you in n.lincs,it does prey on your mind,heard of people thinking about maybe changing what they do if this weather pattern is it from now on!! We just trying to earn a wage and sometimes seems its against us ! Onwards and upwards, cheers
I'm having a nightmare with the weather down here in Dundee Scotland too mate, just need to do what you can when you can. Thankfully, most of our customers are understanding. As you say a bit of rains ok but when its thumping down like it has been there isnt much you can do. Hopefully it will get better soon its been really bad for us since Sept last year, dont even want to think of the amount of hours/days we'v lost 😑
I feel your pain Adam , I’m based in Lancashire and just about managed to get through all my fortnightly grass cuts last week.
Trouble is once you get behind you’re constantly trying to play catch up 🤷♂️.
Like yourself there are certain lawns that just don’t drain so consequently you end up making a mess if you’re not careful.
Just keep on doing what you can. The weather will improve ( like it always does) … we will forget about the rubbish start when we are still cutting grass in November 😂
Keep up the good work! Its that perseverance that seperatss us.feom.those who give up. Beem a hard winter and im ready for some sun and simple grass cuts!
Was relatively mild until December but that rain has been doing my head in too!
Totally agree with you. Tge weather where i am is terrible, open the cutains in a morning and its wet outside, relentless. Im hlad its not only me getting annoyed with it. Great video mate
I used to work with landscaper's and had enough, I got a job as a gardener in the tourism industry looking after walled gardens and we have a nursery for the wet days.
I wouldn't make as much money as I would doing private work, but I have a consistent wage and HR look after all the other situations and if we need tools and plants compost etc it doesn't come out of our pockets
I've a degree in horticulture and adaptable, but nothing beats comfort and knowing that at the end of the working week ill be paid and don't have to tolerate bad weather 👍👍👍
Us fencers are the same, sick to death of all this rain.............at least we can still work, but it is not very pleasant. Nothing worse than getting to the job in the morning and sitting in the van with the rain battering off the windscreen..............it's a bloody effort to get started 😡 Roll on the nicer weather !
That's the problem isn't it. I don't mind so much when you're already out there and it starts to rain haha
In Melbourne Australia we have had a whopping 2mm of rain for march so dry ! Hope you get a break soon .
I get you man, I had a full diary for March and I think I have only managed to work for half the month due to weather. Let's all hope it doesn't last
Aberdeenshire the same mate absolute night mare weather. 👍
I'm managing ok, I do the pressure washing jobs on a rainy day. I think this week looking ok for Leeds.
Up here in Glasgow the same. Was hoping to start grass cutting two weeks ago but rain hindered that. So Monday I am starting and it's going to be alone day
You all want to live in Preston ( aka ‘Miseryville’ ). The wettest city in the UK bar Glasgow. But has the least sunshine. I haven’t started lawns yet been way too wet.
Yep its getting beyond a joke now, down here in North Surrey its been raining more or less since October. It screws up your rota so much with missed days etc, which is why i love my weekly customers as you can skip a week whereas fortnightly become a pain in the arse 😞
It’s been so bloody soggy! Have a Beatles break when you’re stuck in your van! : “I’m Down”, “Good Day Sunshine”, “Here Comes The Sun”…etc..!
Love it 🤣
Now into first week of April and rain every day this week and more on way next week.
Same same same. I’m Oxford based and it’s nothing but, grey and wet! When are we going to get a break
You have to get on with it, decent brethable waterproofs and good machinery with sharp blades.
A lot of my properties are holiday lets and these have to be done weekly on changeover and fortnightly in the winter. No luxury of swaping days so they get done regardless.
I'm cutting with tractor mowers and ocasinaly i will leave wheel marks were water is forced up but this disapears literally after the next shower of rain, i never have any complaints from either the owners or guests only compliments.
I honestly think a lot of the time it comes down to mindset and not wanting to get wet rather than if the job can actually be done.
It's just annoying. Plenty times I do it because as you say, it just has to be done but sometimes it just really annoys you 🙃
I dont look at the weather and make sure iv got my waterproof with me.. I learnt a long time ago that you just have to crack on if you want a life. I always have my maintenance done by Friday no mater how wet its is.. I've ended up dropping the gardens I can't do in this shit.. yellow glasses to lift my mood cap on hood up crack on 😢🎉
Read that comment and knew exactly who that was without seeing your name 😃 how’s things Mate?
Hope Ronald McDonald is ok
Agree David best way, stopped checking the weather also.
@blank-dr2kx alls good bud hope is same with you x Ron's fine hes got over you being sick on him😂
@@davidhamilton8068haha 👍
Constant rain in sunny southport. Fed up of it!!!! So frustrating
I did some jet washing today and will this thursday also... maybe get the jet washer out?
It is sooo frustrating. We had £850 worth of work lined up last week, lost £300 of that to the rain. Working tomorrow to try and catch up with 2 customers but just seen heavy rain coming AGAIN by lunchtime. It always seems to start just as you get to the job too, uncanny.
Just reading forecast again here, it's all changed to rain every day again 😵💫
For me it’s the filthy mess your tools and van get into which irks me. The God awful mess of the underneath of the mower, you get it all nice and with it raining you’re scooping out thick clods of grass, it is bloody depressing 😂 I almost don’t mind a little light rain, but it depends on the jobs you’re doing. But whatever the job one thing is guaranteed the tidying up on a job takes ten times as long, that is what frustrates, esp when you’ve got other places to be, when it’s bone dry you can get cleared up but as soon as it’s wet forget it
Some great points. The mess your gear gets in is horrible like
@TheGreyGardener1990 I don't need spotless tools.. but from experience when it's wet and you don't clean the mower deck you leave it a day or two or more and it's just a nightmare, so you're better cleaning everytime, but that's a pain and not always practical depending on where you are.. when it's dry and you're mowing nice sunshine you don't even need to clean it every time you can just mow and go
Up here in renfrewshire, it's the same. It's annoying because you don't get to make up the hours with grass cutting. I have lost £600 off my earnings already.
I'm a gardener in Cannock and it's been constantly raining, pissing me off now.
Nice video
Nature of the business unfortunately, up here in Scotland we've lost the first 2 weeks of our schedule, meant to be starting again tomorrow and the forecast is looking "ok" but that can, and likely will, change at the drop of a hat. We will cut in the rain, but you just can't if it's that bad, the machines will just clog up or worse still, you'll simply start messing up the lawns with the weight of the machines, just have to wait until it's possible. Last season we even went out over the weekends and would be doing a full weeks schedule in 2 days to try and keep up with the damn thing!
It’s awful down here in Herefordshire. Feels like it’s been raining constantly since July except for a couple of nice weeks in September and October. Some of clients gardens (and my own) are actually going underwater. Lost so much work this year and I’m behind where I wanted to be financially. Won’t be able to invest in new equipment that I need or start saving for my winter fund yet. It will change at some point but when?
It's been terrible mate. Weather forecast for this week isn't looking good either. It's chucking it down here and it's forecast to get heavier throughout the day.
2yr a go I was cutting in feb. This yr jim ust getting started.. I don't know about ya area but Middlesbrough is terrible seems everyone's a gardener now. Getting harder make a honest wage
Few more popping up yeah
Weather for ducks and cover.
Can I ask where you got your work uniform from? Cheers
Wear that on Facebook. They probably have a website too
@@TheGreyGardener1990 cheers
Stop moaning and work the weekend!
Quite often what I do if needs be but not always as easy as that with a toddler and pregnant partner mate
@@TheGreyGardener1990 I know it's hard and the weather is letting every one down And is frustrating but.. try and sort things out this weekend do the jobs as a one off and will get put you back on track good luck matey 😉