Greenbelt Garden Services

17/10/2023

Hi folks. I'll have a bit of time for some garden maintenance jobs over the winter as I've shifted my time around with my main jobs. I'll be looking for garden maintenance jobs, hedge cutting, tree pruning, herbacious border maintenance and any other horticultural task related to getting your garden ready for the new year. I have insurance, tools 25 years of gardening experience and references if required.

01/11/2022

Things will be changing for me and my wee garden project for the foreseeable future. My time each week will be split evenly between community gardening with Grow West Fife and market garden development at Lauriston Community Farm. It feels good getting back in to that kind of work at a time when it's needed and the change should give me time to study. I'm not closing GBG but I won't be doing regular domestic maintenance or landscaping.

thanks to all my awesome clients - you made my transition back to gardening after the first lock down a very pleasant experience. 👍😁🙌

31/03/2022

Hi all - in case you missed it I've got a website:

garden, services, west Lothian, edinburgh,

16/02/2022

It's the time of year for tree planting. So far this winter, including hedges our tally is about 1000 with a few more to go.

22/12/2021

Here's something else I do (I was a market gardener for a long time after all)

https://www.fas.scot/downloads/mentoring-case-study-iain-withers-narrowboat-farm/

I was Iain's mentor and for a couple of others via FAS and I've worked with Nourish Scotland in the past to mentor about 20 more new farmers.

22/12/2021

Hello everybody.

I thought I'd take time to write a post for all my customers to let you know I'll be operating safely, as in previous lockdowns, throughout the period of the enhanced covid restrictions we are now facing. Gardening is a safe trade to carry on with as it is all outdoors and can be carried out without contact. I have a double vaccination and by Monday I'll have had a booster too. I'll never need to enter anybody's home and we can converse about jobs outdoors, safely distanced and wearing masks if required. I'll be taking regular LFT tests and if I have any symptoms I'll follow up with a PCR test. I've got plenty to do and lots of work lined up, the only change is that I may have to do some work at weekends rather than than through the week if additional child care is required.

I'd also like to take this chance to thank all of my customers for helping me have a successful and happy 2021. My wife and I haven't sent xmas cards for a few years now but I'd just like to say happy xmas/ holidays/ new year to each and every one of of you.

Slainte Mhath!!!!!

Rob Davidson

13/07/2021

Hi folks. I've put a few new photos up on the website and a wee video clip too. You might recognise your place.

https://www.greenbeltgarden.services/gallery

06/06/2021

In this weather, please remember to water any new plants daily. 🌅🌊

10/05/2021

Hi. Its been a busy start to the year and I'm very grateful for that. If you're waiting on a definite date for a job we've agreed on I'll be planning my diary for the next couple of months, this week. In the meantime here's a snap of one of last week's jobs. I started with grass, removed turf, built and set the pergola, worked the soil and planted herbaceous perrenials planned with the customer. It's a great way to break up a long lawn and add interest and zones. In a year or so the plants will grow to fill the beds.

07/04/2021

https://theecologist.org/2015/apr/27/nearby-wild-how-i-turned-my-lawn-mini-meadow

Decades of regular mowing left my front lawn looking bare and sterile, writes Jo Cartmell. But in fact, the exhausted, infertile soil made it the perfect place for a host of wild flowers to take up residence - some from planted seed, others blown-in, or from long buried seed lying dormant in the soi...