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24.01.2022 Ute loaded, job finished - another satisfied customer.

23.01.2022 This is a longish post - but I think worth reading. Someone asked me how we charge our battery-powered tools, if we promote ourselves as using no fossil fuels. A fair question.... As I said in direct response, it’s very hard to get away from fossil fuels in our current economy. But we’ve done the best we can. Our vehicles are modern, clean-burning diesel (I haven’t yet seen an electric ute on the market) Our batteries are charged in the vehicle, via an inverter. But why did we go down this path at all? Well, a decade or more ago, as I pushed my petrol lawn mower laboriously up and down my (then) acre of lawn, I idly wondered: what will we do when the oil runs out - or, at least, becomes too precious and expensive to use in lawnmowers (and other things of the sort)? I decided then that once battery-powered garden-maintenance tools (then still in their infancy) became of a professional standard, that is what I would use - after all, professional builders’ tools have been battery-powered for at least the last ten years. So I waited, and watched, and waited some more. And eventually the technology got there. Now I could buy professional-quality tools, tools that leave a professional finish - with, importantly, batteries that run at least as long as it takes a replacement battery to charge. So, in effect, infinite run-times. Quiet. Low-vibration. Light. Eco-friendly. The advantages are massive. And an unexpected bonus I hadn’t considered until we started using the battery-powered tools: with petrol engines, given the need to pull-start them, we tend to leave them running all the time. Make some cuts, put the tool down, clear the debris, pick the tool up again, make some cuts, stand back, check your work - all that time, the engine is either burbling or screaming under load, always running, always consuming, always emitting. With the battery-powered tools, their engines only run when actually cutting. Not only quiet - but quietly, efficiently running for less of the time.

22.01.2022 Putting our client’s buxus hedge back in its box (see what we did there?).

18.01.2022 A row of buxus that, due to wildly differing light, would never be consistent sizes. We decided the best thing to do was face them flat, dome them, and create a happy row of green letterboxes!

18.01.2022 A tiny, pretty front garden made tidy and prettier. Our client was inside on a conference call and didn’t hear a thing whilst we worked.

18.01.2022 Our client’s driveway had been getting narrower and narrower, so she called peas & quiet. It will take a few, progressive trims to get the hedge back to the driveway edge - and vertical, as prior work had left it with a pronounced inward lean! - but we’re on the way.

11.01.2022 It’s hedgin’ season... Bringing a large escallonia hedge back to height.

11.01.2022 It’s a bit of a truism that your clients will tell you what they want your business to do. It would appear peas & quiet builds fruit tree netting frames.

10.01.2022 Yes, we do use glyphosate, as a last resort rather than a first option. But we use it sparingly and carefully. For our own sake, for the health of your garden's soil, and for the environment as a whole.

09.01.2022 This, of course, is exactly why we chose to build peas & quiet, using all battery-powered garden machinery. Not only are typical garden machines noisy and often smelly - they are always terribly polluting.

09.01.2022 A quick, last-minute job at a hospitality venue today. The nice weather meant the conference running in-house wanted to take some sessions outside on to the lawns, so they needed a quick tidy-up. The great thing was, with our battery-powered mowers, whipper-snippers and blowers, no-one heard a thing in the conference rooms!

08.01.2022 We said a while ago that your customers will tell you what they want your business to do. Well, it would appear that peas & quiet relocates and erects cubby houses for small girls... and who doesn't love making small girls squeal with glee? Gabi, we hope you love your new cubby house.

07.01.2022 You can’t win the war against ivy. But you can win some significant battles and have your enemy redirect its resources to other fronts. We have fought this ivy to a halt and regained the garden beds. The ivy can have the fences and six inches forward, to be able to make its way along the fences. Any new incursions into garden beds or lawn areas will be met with disproportionate force.

03.01.2022 Our client's lawn looked awful. He was watering religiously, but wasn't getting any better. Looking at it, we realised it was in dire need of aeration - the grass's root system had so completely matted up that no water was penetrating into the soil. So we aerated - comprehensively. Back-of-the-envelope, we pulled 16,200 plugs from the lawn (it looked like there had been an army of extremely organised funnel-webs digging thousands of holes in an orderly grid pattern). Each ...plug came out dry, dusty and crumbly. (Proper aeration removes a plug, it doesn't merely punch a hole - that approach compresses the soil around the hole and doesn't give nearly the benefit of doing the job properly.) Then we added a soil-wetting agent, then some organic fertiliser, then we spread it all thinly and evenly and finally, checked and reset the inground sprinkler system for full, even coverage. Now we're looking forward to the water, fertiliser - and wormies - doing their jobs. Green grass is on its way.