Who is the Undergardener?
My name is Deborah Mason, I’ve recently moved to Maidenhead to look after my elderly mother. I work as an artist and my gardening business supplements my always precarious income from creative endeavours! I have experience of working on my own, my families and friends gardens. I’m not a tree surgeon or a landscape gardener or a garden designer. I’m just someone who knows a bit about gardening and knows that having someone to help with the ‘boring’ bits is often all a keen gardener needs. That said I’m happy to work alongside those with less knowledge about gardening and with what skills and advice I can give to help them to get the garden they want.
I have a full, up to date DBS check (available for inspection).
Hourly rates and terms
My minimum booking is for a 1 hour period – this costs £15 full rate and £13 for OAPs and registered disabled.
You are not tied into a contract – if you want to book me regularly that’s great, but if you just need someone to come and do a bit of work now and again then that’s also fine.
I have set the Undergardener up as a limited company and you will be paying the company – so even if you want me to work for you every week for a year – you don’t have to worry about being my ’employer’ all the tax, national insurance and pensions are taken care of by my company.
Invoices for work done can be paid by cash, cheque or bank transfer.
To give you an idea of what you get
The first pic:ture below is an overgrown drive way (just a spring-time’s worth of growth) the picture that follows is after 5 hours of work. This will give you some idea of what can be achieved – as you can see 5 hours isn’t quite enough to achieve perfection but it does make a difference. Of course a regular hour or so a week and the drive wouldn’t have been so overgrown in the first place!
What can I do for you and your garden?
- Weeding
- Watering
- Digging and preparing beds for planting
- Planting out
- Staking and tieing
- Pruning and deadheading
- Mowing
- Raking up leaves and general tidying
What I don’t do: tree surgery, hard landscaping (although happy to weed and maintain), ponds (beyond a little weed clearing or chopping back), work over 2m high
The Environment
I’m keen to keep this planet habitable for human life and I’m sure that like me, living here in the flood zone, we all know what water level rising will can do!
So I don’t use pesticides, weedkillers, unsafe fertilisers and I try to compost and dispose of other waste in as an environmentally friendly was a possible.
Where possible I prefer to walk or cycle to work.
The Undergardener Limited is a registered company no. 11443332. Registered Address: 5 Rayfield, Ray Park Avenue, Maidenhead SL6 8DL
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