Gardening rate per hour?

[ndjohnson86]

No less than 15

 

It is business you have overheads its skilled work don't undersell yourself it doesn't look like you do with your other rates I'd be 20 it's your business anywhere between 15-20 go with what your happy with

 

Having said that I give prices per job now always and it's a win win work it out on hourly rates quote a price if your quick and work hard you earn the same money

 

I've been on a job where the guys gardeners are dragging their heels two of them help each other taking bags of rubbish across a paddock to tip in his woods. Just clearly wasting time

Edited November 25, 2015 by ndjohnson86

[Starscream]

Is anyone even reading the original post? It's his bloody mum. Now, I'm not knocking the OP or his mum, I think it's great. Put yourself in the shoes of a customer. On the one hand you have someone for £20 an hour with experience in garden maintenance, high end power tools and a reputation to upkeep. Or, you have mateys mum pottering around for £20 an hour. Come on people, we all know where your money would be.

Start her at £10 an hour, it'll more or less garuntee you the job, then build on it from there.

[kentjames]

Interesting do you basically just cut the grass when "gardening". Its quite a broad term and i do a lot of commercial "gardening" or landscape maintenance and that involves everything from weeding, hegecutting and mowing.

I think if i was just weeding borders i would have to charge a lot less!

 

Gardening is a broad term yes, it includes essentially anything which is not tree surgery. Fruit tree pruning is a grey area still but usually if its one tree it gets done within the contracted maintenance.

 

We do commercial landscape management too and on one 27 acre site it is mostly grass, hedges, trees (epi and raising only), weed spraying, leaf clearance, strimming banks etc but thats an annual contract price to include everything possible (apart from the exceptions which are all stated in the contract! #extras)

[SDDavid]

I charge £15/hr for both myself and my partner. We're both highly qualified gardners as well as holding extended arb diplomas, and in the case of my partner, she won the Chartered Institute of Horticulture's Young Horticulturist of the Year (North of England) 2015 and came 5th nationally. We would find it very difficult to charge more despite this. All our work is on recommendation, we have never advertised. After costs we're lucky to make £8.50/hr.

[Ty Korrigan]

Sorry,

Are you saying 15 each or 7.50 each...?

Either way CAN I EMPLOY YOU BOTH?

Ty

[Richard 1234]

I charge £15/hr for both myself and my partner. We're both highly qualified gardners as well as holding extended arb diplomas, and in the case of my partner, she won the Chartered Institute of Horticulture's Young Horticulturist of the Year (North of England) 2015 and came 5th nationally. We would find it very difficult to charge more despite this. All our work is on recommendation, we have never advertised. After costs we're lucky to make £8.50/hr.

 

 

I'm confused too is that £15 each an hour ?

 

Just be confident in your charges and put them up. Also try not to charge by the hour charge by the job.

You will be surprised what people will pay.

[kentjames]

Sorry but you are seriously under valuing your experience, knowledge and services at that rate

[Bogoak]

Northumberland isn't Kent though.

[Gardenmac]

A friend of ours does gardening in Northumberland and charges £25 per hour. Not just the grass cutting but extensive horticultural plant maintenance.

[Vespasian]

I've bin doin Gardening jobs for years and never charge by the hour..

 

The variables employed are how much hassle is the job likely to be, how long is it likely to take, and a bit of what I think I might get away with..

 

That way I can turn up crack on and move to the next job without looking at a damned watch..