Grab a Gardener

Grab a Gardener was founded in 2015 as result of years of trying to maintain just a small garden. Having lived the commuter lifestyle from various locations across the UK; Leeds, Birmingham, Leamington Spa, Reading and London we found the existence of a common problem. In every location we moved to, being new to the area, it was almost impossible to find a trusted local gardener. In addition, being in rented accommodation year on year meant we would often be left with a garden to maintain and no tools to do it! The final straw came when we lived in Reading; Nav a senior business development manager at Thomson Reuters was commuting to London every day and Ant, a senior oil & gas software engineer was commuting to Oxford. Both of us had almost no free time in the week to do gardening, and wanted to spend weekends relaxing or more likely doing the usual household chores like cleaning and shopping! Maintaining the garden always fell to the bottom of the 'to do' list. After trying exhaustively for a year to find a gardener, we found there was no single directory to find gardeners in the area and very few gardeners had an online presence. Some gardeners would even charge for coming out and giving a quote! The majority of gardeners would quote by approximately guessing the amount of work required and we found there was no consistency, prices could range from £40-£60 for a tiny lawn cut!