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Not my field, but did once have to build a croquet lawn for a client.
Loads of badgers on site and everything else that could destroy the lawn in area, (right next door to large woodland with no fence at all). To cap it all of the owners were strict…
Place lots of tin dog food in next doors garden :-)
I would kill the worms or at least use iron to drive them down and hopefully off lawn.
Might be prudent to treat the soil with a product based on Chlorpyrifos as this would sort out any leatherja…
I'm open to all suggestions as to how to get rid of badgers!!
There's not enough lawn left to spray iron sulphate onto. Probably a good idea if they decide to re-turf
You are not taking this seriously Richard:-)
I loath badgers, I get this problem regularly but have almost prevented it by regularly spraying with iron sulphate thus driving the worms down deep. Also low electric fence along the boundary may be a good solution.
If you can find the path they a…
If it's Wombles, what is the treatment? Dance music to lure them away from the garden!
Showing my age Phil
Like it:)
Could be wombles?? :-)
Went to site this morning and it looked like a battlefield. 60 sqaure metres of newly laid turf in pieces.
IThe rootzone below the turf was relatively unscathed. I dug looking for chafers and found nothing so I guess the juicy worms were near the s…
Best to have a check tomorrow and assess the possible cause.
We had a badger family in one of the rental propeties last year and ended up calling the local badger trust (bearded bloke who smoked a pipe - you get the picture). He was most helpful an…
My first thought was worms because of the time of year, dampness etc but the extent of damage is similar to that caused by badgers going after grubs. Badgers are meant to "slurp" for worms and tear up the turf looking for chafers. I think it is too…
Have Emailed you Richard.
Just a note but I am sure everyone knows.
Badgers and their setts are protected under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, which makes it illegal to kill, injure or take badgers or to interfere with a badger sett. Interfer…
I am going to see a prospective client tomorrow who has badgers ripping up her newly laid (8 weeks ago) lawn. The badgers must be after food but what do you think? Worms or Chafer Grubs? isn't it too late for Chafers.
I'll have a dig around tomorro…
Profile Information
- Company name (if applicable)
- Garden Post
- First Name:
- Richard
- Surname:
- Lilley
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- mail@gardenpost.co.uk
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- About Me:
- Retired from TV Postproduction industry in 2006 to set up own business specialising in lawn care and general landscaping. Enjoying myself immensely, even if it is hard work sometimes!
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- Landscaper
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Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 8:40am on February 6, 2009,
Philip Voice said…
- Good morning Richard and thanks for joining.
It is so pleasing to read profile pages about people who take a career changes and are enjoying that change.
Kind regards
Phil Voice
- At 12:46pm on April 25, 2009,
Barry Richardson said… - Richard, are you operational as a lawn treatment company?
I develop software for lawn treatments companies, both large and small.
The program handles all aspects of scheduling customer treatments, special treatments thro to invoicing and credit control.
Costs are very reasonable and spread over 12 months and the software is configured for the possibility of a franchise operation.
Regards
Barry Richardson
- At 2:47pm on April 25, 2009,
Barry Richardson said…
- Which Franchiser are you with Richard?
For Landscape Juice members I have knocked 20% off what I normally charge.
Generally it would be around £1,000 which I would invoice over 6 to 12 months.
The scheduling is based around 4 standard treatments per year, you can run notification letters re reminders of treatments and these can be e mailed reducing costs. Records of all past treatments are shown on the job sheet allowing easy referral for lawn condition etc.
The system is integrated to allow for easy invoicing, payments by cash/chq/dd/so etc
Reminder letters automatically generated and again sent by e mail if required.
Nice little system if I say it myself.
What I can do is download a trial system to you and I use a log in system so that I can come on line and sort any issues out.
Currently I supply several Lawn Doctor Fanchisee's with my system, Lawn Master run their whole system on a similar suite.
Barry R
- At 2:54pm on April 25, 2009,
Barry Richardson said…
- Forgot to mention, you will need to have access 97 loaded as a minimum although we can sort out run times if that is not ok.
Regarding accounts, all I would do is run the system and then enter a batch figure for the month, so much simpler and we have complete control over invoicing etc whereas packages tend to tie you itno what they want you to do.
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