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I mean time to put the garden to bed for the winter.......or is it?

I'd like to share this with you.

We started this business early in February 2004 with one half of us not from a gardening back ground (guess who?), so learning as we went a long we did very well that first year then September came and one morning while having a morning break I picked up the newspaper and started to read the gardening page. it went on about last grass cut, cleaning and storing tools etc, and putting your garden to bed, so back to work and it hit me, I'd write to all the lovely maintenance customers that we had worked for that first year, so I set about it, thanking them for their customer and wishing them well with a hope they would all sign up with us in the new year. I got on so well I not only wrote all the letters but posted them as well. Boy was I feeling good about myself.

That was until his lordship came home, as per normal we'd have a cup of tea and go over what had happen thought out the day. so feeling very pleased with myself I told him, when he came down off the ceiling he told me in no uncertain teams that I would have to phone each and very one as he would still be cutting grass as long as it was still growing, and that there was lots of other things needed in the gardens he could offer our clients, didn't I realize that I had just closed our business down for the whole of the winter, what was he going to do? I didn't want to do it but I hit the phone, first I had to explain they would be getting a letter in the post and then that I had made a big mistake, I tried asking that they didn't read the letters but all said they would and most laughed. but we did keep all of them as customers and that year he kept cutting grass up to and including the week before Christmas.

I learnt two things that day, 1. No matter what time of year or the weather there always seams to be some thing to do in the garden and 2. Never believe everything you read in the newspapers.

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