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Yeah, $25 is probably cheap, but I'm a gardener, nothing else.
This kills me. I started out strictly gardening at $24.00 p hr 7 or 8 years ago. It kills me that I knew so much more about horticulture than the "lawn jockeys" who would whiz by me on their ZTR's. I would watch them, with their $35.oo p hr labor rates (justified because.... I'n not sure exactly... but they did have much bigger trucks than I did) plant shrubs with the bad side facing out, burlap still tied up, or some other sin, and it would kill me.
Now, we are a full service company. We still garden. We just stopped limiting ourselves. One thing that our customers really like about us is how learned we are in horticulture.
It would help the image of our industry soooo much if there were more folks like you.... you know... just gardeners.
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