Profitable gardening

Selling your time

Gardening

Profitable gardening may be an option If you are still physically active and you enjoy working out of doors, gardening offers a great opportunity to earn regular extra income. It is an unfortunate fact that many people are no longer able to tend their own gardens and many more are just too busy.

For our purposes let's assume that your horticultural knowledge is limited to the absolute basics. No problem because profitable gardening is more likely to be about the basis tasks. Most of the easy to get work is simple, just keeping things tidy! Hedge trimming, lawn mowing - there is huge demand for lawn mowing through the Summer months - and things like trimming back branches and so on.

How do turn a basic interest into a profitable gardening business? Use our tried and tested 'postcards in the corner shop' routine. Why? - because it works! It is also cheap and money saved on advertising means better profits. So, postcards in the shops and stores. That will probably generate sufficient work to start with but printing up and delivering 'flyers' promoting your services can't hurt either. When distributing your flyers it will be immediately obvious which gardens are in need of your services and where profitable gardening could be your income answer.................

Keep your message simple! Offer mowing and general tidying up services and don't claim expert knowledge - unless of course you have it! You will quickly pick up more knowledge as you go along and you will find many of your customers are pretty knowledgable too. There are lots of internet sites offering good advice - our own Age-Net for example has a monthy column on what tasks are called for throughout the year.

Is gardening profitable? We would suggest quoting an hourly rate in line with the National minimum rate. Say, around £5.00 - £6.00 an hour. Some areas will pay better than others of course and it is always up to you to decide how much your time is worth. So, not huge profits but it may produce all that you need.

Enjoy your profitable gardening................

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