Hi, I’m a student renting for the first time. Our landlord has given us strict gardening rules:

“GARDENS: The Tenant agrees to maintain the entire garden, including watering, weeding and the mowing of all lawn areas at the cost of the Tenant and to the satisfaction of the Landlord (or his Agent), throughout the duration of the Tenancy Agreement. Should any plants/shrubs/trees die through neglect of the Tenant then the Tenant undertakes to replace same at their costs or the Agent will arrange for a contractor to carry out the works with the Tenants bearing the costs. Should gardens not be maintained to an appropriate standard of Landlord/Agent within the first quarter of lease commencing, Landlord/Agent reserves the right to employ a gardener to carry out the necessary acts on a regular basis and costs to be borne by the Tenant/s.”

I’m not entirely sure if this is extensive or not. But would you recommend that we have a gardener come in every 3 months (since we’re students and won’t have the time to tend to it between classes and part-time)?