How Much Can You Earn As A Self Employed Gardener In 2023?  

Love the mot comment Rob.. i do exactly the same and its my pal who does my mot 😂...i tell both my daughter's to do the same but they look at me as if I was stupid 😂

This channel has to be one of the best for someone starting their own busness what ever it is. Good man Rob

You have to take into account the impact doing this job has on your body,I work 10 hours a day and work extremely hard but it comes at a cost to your physical and mental well-being, don’t take on too much, it’s really not worth it. I’m caught in a trap now where I don’t want to let people down but I really need to as, at 42, I’m finding it tough.

Great video, enjoyed listening to your thoughts as always. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for all your info over the winter months about your marketing and going through my PA1 and PA6.

Love your common sense to everything and sharing your experiences which we can all relate to. How much to charge all depends on the individual circumstances, experience and what you personally need to charge to cover your bills etc. No point just guessing and trying to undercharge other gardeners in the area, as you don’t know what overheads etc. they have and you will soon end up being a busy fool. Keep it up Rob. Also went onto The Tattooed Gardener RU-vid channel you suggested on the last video. Now following him too, as very interesting also.

Thanks once again Rob

Great video Max

This is beautiful ❤

Nice to see a bump in subscribers Rob. It starts to snowball the bigger you get 👍🤞

Great video Rob! Your wisdom is always taken in!! I started in May last year and am lucky to still be working over the winter months. I do holiday changeovers, a nice contract and general garden maintenance. I would never have started out with the confidence i have if it wasn’t for watching your videos 😊 you have given me great advice from the start - especially on purchasing the 537 HRX and your earnings knowledge is now coming in very handy as i will approaching my 1 year in the trade! Cheers Rob 👍👍 Ross

Great video Rob. You come across very well in the videos, and speak with clear intent. I am finding your videos useful. I hate the financial side to business. I'd graft all day but put off the housekeeping.

6k well done Rob.

Build up the maintenance, its regular and guarantted, I am 57 and am dropping customers with borders and weeding etc, Still doing hedges and shrubs but will be cutting down on them. If i switch to cut and edge totally there will be no hassle , lose some customers but can replace them tomorrow. I will do hedges for certain customers only.

Spot on Ron what I’ve learned in self employment is treat your customers in a professional and courteous way work does and will follow and never be cheap as it’s then really hard to achieve a good price ☺️all the best pal it’s great to stay positive it keeps us going’👍🏻😊

6k congrats 👍 one off jobs if quoted right can pay well but are harder work and tough on kit so do whats right for you and easier on the body. I would say a day rate for having someone in using your kit is around £150 so in 2023 running a business we should be aiming to cover those ever increasing business costs. I’ve had some various work done lately by different trades and someone with far less tools and no more skill is a min of £65 plus vat an hour. Not sure we can reach that tho

Hi Rob, I contacted all my customers last week. I've had one drop out, but all thr rest have confirmed with a yes. I find the earlier you contact them the better. I think some forget they have a garden🤦‍♂️ I'm now booked up for the season with regular mowing, treatments and spring renovation. Good luck for the season 👍 and keep up the great videos 👏

All I know from this video is that I’m undercharging a lot 😅 This last year “2023” has been awful weather wise as well

Another great video Rob. I’m hoping that customers don’t start looking at the pennies a little closer this year due to the current financial crisis.🤞🏻

When that sun shines phone starts ringing 😮

Hi Rob. Hope your sitting down reading this... My plan for the year ahead. Earnings wise, stay the same as last year. Which in real terms given inflation is a pay cut. I have a set amount I like to earn each day. (less than yours) then go home and enjoy my day. I started in this profession about 7yrs ago as a little part time thing. It grew way beyond that when I wasn't looking. This coming season I'd like to pear it back a bit to those past days. You can't buy time and where only given a finite amount of it in this world.

Rob fantastic information again as usual. Yes I am busy doing admin and getting machinery for upcoming season✌️. Damien RU-vid channel from Ireland🙏

I'm quite lucky to have some good regulars that give me good winter work, tree pruning, mulching etc... Yeah as soon as we get to around March time and the grass and hedges start growing the calls come flooding in!

Good luck with the mot. My van is booked for the 8th on my last autumn visit I try to book a march pruning visit with most customers I book some jan feb work but enjoy a slightly easier 2 months as I know I will be too busy later

Hi Rob. Been watching for sometime now. I've confirmed all of mine to start in March and picked up some to start in Feb & March. Fully booked for the coming season. I do allow 1 day a month for one offs and those that only use me a couple times a year 👍

I've just became self employed in the North East mate Northumberland even and just managed to get my first few jobs of the year managed to bag 2 regular fortnightly grass cutting jobs in the book and just quoted a leylandi conifer removal and in total 84ft of fencing to put up hoping that comes in and it will be a good start to the year so far

Your doing good my friend. 2 weeks into Feb is the best time to contact your customers. Been working for myself for 9 years. 4 days maintenance 1 day for the big jobs, they don't always come. 80% of the time they do. Being a gardener you won't become a millionare, it's a job you have to enjoy not to earn mass profits out it.

Hi Rob i did 30 years in the motor trade, it does sow a seed in the testers head that its a well maintained vehicle if its spotless inside and out 👍.

It may seem very quiet at the moment, but it will all kick off soon. I know exactly what you are talking about pal.

Cheltenham and St. Patrick's Day happen in March, then it's go, go, go!

great video Rob funny thing i have just been doing the numbers myself i have a ball park area of what will come as i have said before there are a few that book me up 12 months in advance hedges clean ups etc and i book a lot of customers up at the end of last season with will be in touch in time to go again with grass but if the need anything in mean time they have my details and we will sort it and that get the odd winter job and a few asked this year or last how ever you look at it to keep coming throe the winter to make sure they have me for spring. and i work 4 to 4.5 days regular work plus big jobs that may give me 5 or 6 days a week its nice to be busy but we all need to rest i am looking to take on staff but the costs are so scary and like you that tax man haha they slow it up all year saving for staff tax man has it all the best rob

hi paul from paul potter garden services, i have already contacted my customers and all but 2 have come back, but i have picked up 5 more.

Still enjoy your vids pal.... Starting to move away from day to day profession as an engineer and into gardening. Luckily my shift pattern allows for this

2021 I'll take that money💰

I run mainly maintenance March till Christmas, with enough spare time for a couple of larger jobs per months and jan-March for the rest of the projects, the VAT bills are the worst 😂

Hi Rob, regular customers is the best way for myself Monday to Friday, and one off jobs on a Saturday but bite size work no more than 4hrs but around £120.00 ,price 3 maybe get 1. The only slight problem I have noticed recently is people starting doing gardening as a side line,topping up their final salary pension as well as state pension, 5 days a week but not informing hmrc at all !. Don't mind weekend warriors young lads with families putting food on the table. You can tell the others easy they drive round with them trailers you can only buy at Halfords . Keep the videos coming.

What's the earliest you've done your first cut rob .? I was working in grangetown Sunderland passed through a industrial estate checked the length of grass as we do in the trade then saw a large block of grass had been tip cut ? Grass cutting in January is a thing I've never done butttttt looking at the grass we may be cutting really early this year ...good vid rob keep em comeing

18th of February I will do a full send to last year's customers..20th February I've done a paid postcode advertising in the local magazine to 14k homes so it will be interesting to see if it works 👍🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏

Maxwell.hiya mate I'm a gardener in South Wales just wondering if you've heard of the scag 21 mower thinking of getting one just to make my job a bit easier. or anyone else have got one many thanks Anthony

Rob have to say made me laugh 🤣🤣 few time's. Nice video 💯 on all you said. Can't wait till March get away from these hedges. Shoulders are fook 😭😭

Yes mid Feb I'll be contacting my customers again , some have already called me , have a good 2023 Rob

I have 70 % of customers that keep me in the winter

😂All well and good ,But if I had feathers sticking out of my arse i would be a chicken😂 Great content though 👍

Hi Rob, I know you have touched base on advertising before I am starting my own garden business and am currently doing the weekly posts on Facebook I would like to get some flyers in some doors but when do you think the best time to do this would be I want to get the timing right not too soon not too late. Cheers

I started in May and I was making £140ish a day from day 1 pretty much. The thing I am really poor at, is charging more for things like hedge trimming. I have been charging my same rate for cutting really crap hedge as I was for cutting grass.. DOH! Lots to learn I found over the past few months, I've been doing bits for cheaper than I ideally want to, as it isn't the growing season. I know at least one of those new customers wants to carry on this year. Is it acceptable to give them a fresh price for the growing season? Otherwise the rate I've given is far too cheap, once I start using tools and the mower

I would tell everyone who’s self employed to save 29% of the monthly takings put in a building society account min 30 day notice or premium bonds I got caught out when I had to pay the tax because I didn’t get the whole payment on account thing😢 if you don’t save it you will alway feel like you are working to just pay tax and that’s how some fail

Alright, Rob, Rab here. I just one a job for 3 morning on an estate. I was wondering I lowered my price cause I would be using there equipment so I feel that I can't charge my normal price is that what you do or is there anything else

Paying the tax man feels like a kick in the stomach but it has to be done

No mate, thank you

On 13 feb will say hello by message to all ex customers

Do you think you’ll invest in a bigger van this year ? Hope all is well

It’s 2023 Rob..😂

3.47 you mean 2023

We charge €250 a day and never get refused we’re worried it’s too cheap

I know im going to loose some as im putting my prices up by a massive £2.so going to be average of £12 per visit.