Calculate the True Cost of Hand-Weeding

See what repeated hand-weeding could really be costing your nursery and compare it with fitting Yulgro Pot Toppers.

Allow for costs above the basic wage, such as employer National Insurance, workplace pension contributions and other employment costs.
Not every paid hour is spent directly weeding or fitting toppers. Allow for normal breaks, walking between tasks, collecting tools or materials, moving between work areas, brief interruptions and other necessary non-productive time. For example, 85% means approximately 51 minutes of each paid hour is available for productive work.
Effective productive labour cost £0.00/hour

Your Current Hand-Weeding

How many times would this crop typically require hand-weeding during its growing cycle? Include routine weeding and any additional clean-up required before sale or dispatch.
Consider the complete operation — collecting and handling pots, moving them where necessary, removing weeds, tidying bark or top dressing, and returning or repositioning the plants.

Compare With Yulgro Pot Toppers

Illustrative guide price based on a Yulgro Pot Topper suitable for a 3-litre pot and typical nursery quantities of approximately 1,000–10,000 units. Larger-volume requirements may qualify for more competitive pricing. Contact us for a quotation.
Enter only the additional time needed to fit the topper while the plant and pot are already being handled during the normal potting process.
Consider the complete retrofit operation, including collecting, handling and moving pots where necessary.
Enter any residual hand-weeding you expect to carry out during the crop cycle after fitting the toppers.
Estimated hand-weeding cost £0
Estimated Yulgro cost including fitting £0
Potential saving £0
Approximate labour hours released 0 hours
Approximate break-even point 0 weedings
Planning a larger volume? Volume pricing may be available for larger requirements. Your actual Yulgro cost could therefore be lower — and your potential saving higher — than the illustrative calculation shown above. Contact Yulgro for a quotation.
Potential additional benefits are not included in the saving above.

The calculation does not assign a financial value to potential benefits such as moisture retention, reduced irrigation requirements, reduced weed competition or reduced preparation at dispatch.

This calculator provides an illustrative estimate only. Enter figures that reflect your own nursery. Actual costs and results depend on crop, weed pressure, working methods, labour costs, pot size, fitting method and growing conditions. Default productivity, fitting and Pot Topper price figures are examples only and are not performance or pricing guarantees.