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Temperature rising

High temperature warning: Rutland. One of the reasons I adore my Clients; is how much they care for Shadow and I. I’m booked in to a regular Client later today and just got an email from them with regards how… Continue Reading →

Initial Review of Racing 5114F Comfort-Turn 4-in-1 Self-Propelled Petrol Lawnmower

Initial Review; Based on about 20 – 30 hours use from new & out of the box. I bought this machine a few weeks ago and it has been running over and around my allotment plots since then. I’ve previously… Continue Reading →

Summer 2019 – Shadow and I; in the Sun

A busy day with the Mountfield hedge clippers today and a mixed bag of hedging material to tame back and start getting control of. A 50 Meter fenceline array of Hawthorn and other less prickly customers. (“prickly customers” = Different… Continue Reading →

Why are pro gardeners so expensive?

I get asked this a lot. When prices go up people don’t like it. Least of all those who are having to raise prices to stay in business. Shadow of the Gardener is like any other small business; subject to… Continue Reading →

Oh the joy of searching for an assistant and an apprentice

Is there any?     I put up the ad on Indeed and the response has been quite good; by volume only. Some of the applications… Not so good.   More about this if I find the will to check… Continue Reading →

Temperature rising

Summer approaches #BST   As the approach of British Summer Time closes in, the temperatures are set to start heading up steadily over the next few days.  Pushing beyond 20 degrees and into the mid 20’s. The recent weeks of… Continue Reading →

I love my job and it shows…

Apparently.   🙂   I get asked a lot “what is it about what I do that I love; or why I adore what I do. I’m going to answer pictorially as apparently that makes for better blog posts and… Continue Reading →

Turning the lights on and the heat up – Part 2

Carrying on from…  Here. & also Here.   This is what I have been up to recently in the Studio…   I have a lot of seed stock to sow this year.  As can be seen in one of the… Continue Reading →

Turning the lights on and the heat up

Spring 2019 seriously begins for SOTG… Now the frost chance overnight has seriously reduced and the workload of post Winter and Pre Spring clearing and tidying for Clients is mostly in hand or close to being so. I turn my… Continue Reading →

  With the season fully on the turn and warmer days now starting. The early established weeds and final seasonal fall of leaves and remaining branches that can and should be cleared; this is as good a time as any… Continue Reading →

Tempting as it is…

Hold off just a week or Two longer!   Before putting those tender plants out or starting to sow tender stock till the last of the frosts or risk of frost has passed.   The urge to get started and… Continue Reading →

Tender stuff alert

Just checking the weather for the job list ahead for this week and as I predicted a few weeks ago…   It’s about to turn cold again, so the recent mild and sunny weather may have convinced some people to… Continue Reading →

One of the questions

I get asked the most The reason I post this, is because I get asked a fair few Gardening related questions, and a lot of them; I get asked a lot. I get asked about a lot of other things… Continue Reading →

Managed to fit in a flying visit to a Client today in Oakham and give the garden space a quick blast and initial Shadow of the Gardener Stage 1 clear.  To allow further thought on what can be done next… Continue Reading →

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