Young entrepreneur Zayne Sinclair has pledged to give top notch customer service to his customers despite a string of problems.

The 17-year-old owner of gardening business Sinclair’s Seed Sowing, now teaches people to maintain the vegetable gardens he created for them as he had to go overseas for a funeral and returned to quarantine.

Zayne, who maintains the plots himself in normal times, said that his devotion to the job, despite being praised customers, was just part of his job.

He added: “I feel like giving the clients the best service possible – whether it be the actual project or the information of how to maintain it yourself – is key.”

Zayne added: “I feel like gardening is like therapy and it’s very beneficial to the person themselves, so as a fellow gardener, I think that giving them some tips can kind of gives them a bit of control of their own garden.”

Zayne, from Pembroke, started his business last summer of after he spent much of the Covid-19 lockdown working on a vegetable garden with his father.

He said that he would visit a client’s house and create and maintain a garden for them.

But Zayne said that some of his work had be put on hold after his grandmother died in Jamaica and he had to fly to the country for her funeral.

He added that he had been in quarantine since the end of January and could not visit customers, so he instructed his clients over the phone how to maintain their gardens with a promise to check on them when he finished isolation.

Zayne said: “I didn’t spend as much time with my clients as I would have liked, so I felt it was my duty to help them with their garden.”

He added: “Even after I finish the garden I feel like it’s my duty to make sure the plants are all right, because not everybody knows the steps that they need to take to take care of their garden – that’s what I’m here for.”

Zayne said good reviews from customers and media coverage had boosted his business over the last few months.

He added that he went from just three customers at the launch of the business to about ten, with more on his waiting list.

Zayne said that he quit a part-time job at Southampton ice cream parlour Scoops to allow him to concentrate on his business.

He admitted that schoolwork and responsibilities as deputy head boy at the Berkeley Institute, as well as the schedules of family members who transported him and his equipment to job sites, forced him to work on gardens on Sundays.

Zayne said that he had not visited as many clients as he had hoped, but was that he was confident he would be able to get around to them now he was out of quarantine.

He added: “I’m very passionate about this and I hope to see all of the potential clients that I have.”

Zayne said: “I have a real passion about my work ethic and what I do, so I hope that, now that I have a bit of free time, I can work on seeing the clients I haven’t gotten to yet.”

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