What's the going rate for gardening help?

Yes gillybob, I too am in the north east (N Yorks) and I get PAID in a cuppa and a lush piece of cake and as many veg and eggs as I want.
Sorry folks but I already do 4 gardens including my own so no time for any more !
I am hoping that in years to come someone might do the same for me but I won't hold by breath.

Well I'm in the north east and I pay a Cuppa and a biscuit !

We have just started employing an odd job man. He seems to be able to turn his hand to anything. He decorated our hall last month and made an excellent job of it. Today he came and put up two blinds, painted over some water stains on the ceiling and spent the rest of the day gardening. He charges £15 an hour for everything he does. I live in the South East.

We invested in a lot of heavy duty garden equipment when DH recovered enough from his stroke to be able to resume his role of head groundsman It's been worth every penny but I do get annoyed when people ask if they can borrow things. DH is a soft touch and even considered lending our high reach hedge trimmer to a man in the village who is a jobbing gardener. Being a firm believer in the benefits of bartering I suggested he give us a couple of hours work in return.

We haven't seen or heard of him since.

We pay £10 per hour - one afternoon a week. It's mostly for digging and clearing away hedge cuttings and nettle roots that we're constantly digging out. He also has free eggs and vegetables when they're available. Our garden is huge and very high maintenance so we couldn't do without him.

I live in NW London and I pay £14 an hour. This fellow is fully insured etc. but it is only grass cutting and is done fortnightly. I could get it done for a lot cheaper by some fellow who speaks little English but the last fellow broke my patio glass door and did a runner!

We have a gardening lady approx 3 days a year to do the hedges , pruning and heavy digging. We have a minute garden and no time . We pay £10 per hour. Our gardening lady also does dry stone walling, wood carving with a chain saw and lives on a house boat - she's a character.

DH is paid £10 ph by one client and £12 by another. We're in Kent you will find slight regional differences. Central London is about £15 ph

Galen That's less than I thought it might be, but it would still mount up on a regular basis depending how much there is to be done.

My garden has become too big since we moved in 27 yrs ago but it did not look too big at all when I was 27yrs younger.

It's probably the biggest in the development but this was the next house to be ready for completion and we needed to be in before a new school year started. We had already lost one house purchase in our move up North.

I pay £12.50 an hour