Lawn care and garden maintenance: guides and software for gardeners
Lawn care and garden maintenance is the regular work: cutting, edging, hedges and tidying, usually weekly or fortnightly through the growing season.
The lawn care and garden maintenance year
Busiest in spring to early autumn, the whole growing season. Quietest in late autumn through winter.
- Example price per garden
- £28
- Jobs a month to earn £2,000
- 85
Example numbers to show the method, not market prices.
Written for gardeners
The same advice as the general guides, with lawn care and garden maintenance numbers, kit, rules and seasons.
- Pricing5 min readHow to price lawn care and garden maintenance: a worked exampleA step-by-step price for lawn care and garden maintenance, with the sums, the minimum charge and how many jobs it takes to earn a living.
- Starting out6 min readHow to start a lawn care and garden maintenance businessThe order to do things in, the kit, the rules to check and where your first customers come from.
- Tax & books5 min readLawn care and garden maintenance: expenses you can claimWhat gardeners can deduct before tax, with an example year of costs and the receipts to keep.
- Starting out5 min readLawn care and garden maintenance insurance: what you needThe cover gardeners should ask about, the risks behind most claims and the rules to check.
- Growing4 min readQuiet months in lawn care and garden maintenance: how to plan the yearWhen lawn care and garden maintenance is busy and quiet, how to smooth the income, and the buffer to build.
What gardeners need from software
WorkWise Rounds is built for people who visit the same customers again and again. It plans the round, runs the day on your phone, and gets you paid.
- A repeating diary
- Each customer has how often you go and a next visit, so fortnightly gardens repeat across the week without rebuilding it.
- Paid without chasing
- A pay link when you tap Done, and Direct Debit collected after each visit for customers who set it up.
- Rain-off days
- Move the remaining stops to another day when the weather turns, and tell the customers affected in one go.
For every round trade
Money, tax and getting paid work the same way whatever you do.
- Getting paid6 min readChasing late payments politely, with texts you can copyHow to stop payments going late in the first place, and a polite ladder of messages for when they do.
- Getting paid6 min readDirect Debit for small traders: how it works and whether to use itDirect Debit, card, bank transfer and cash compared, and how to get customers to say yes.
- Tax & books8 min readMaking Tax Digital for sole traders: do you need it, and when?HMRC's new way of reporting income tax: who must use it, the start dates, the quarterly deadlines and what to do now.
- Tax & books8 min readRegistering as a sole trader: tax, deadlines and what to set asideWhen to tell HMRC, the dates that matter, how much tax to expect and how to avoid a January shock.
- Growing6 min readHow to get your first customersLeaflets, doorsteps, Facebook groups and reviews: what works for a local round, and what to watch out for.
- Starting out6 min readHow to buy a round, and what to check firstA bought round can save you years of leafleting, but only if the customers and the numbers are real.
- Starting out6 min readSwitching round software without losing customers or moneyHow to move from another app, a spreadsheet or a paper round book without double-charging anyone.