Discover the best gardening tools and equipment to make planting, pruning, watering, and maintaining your garden easier and more efficient.
A garden tool is judged in the hand, not on the shelf. The hour you spend with a fork in wet clay three winters from now is the hour you are really buying. So the useful skill in a tool shop is not price comparison. It is reading how a…
Most garden sheds hold more engines than the garden can justify. I have cleared a quarter acre of neglected allotment with a fork. I have also watched a two-stroke tiller bury itself in wet clay and leave the bed worse than it found it.…
Most beginners buy too many tools. I know, because I did it myself. A boxed set of twelve implements arrives, half of it gets used twice, and the rest rusts quietly at the back of the…
A decent pair of garden gloves costs less than a bag of compost, and it outlasts most of the tools in your…
A robot mower is a small grazing animal that eats a lawn in bites. On the right lawn you forget it exists for weeks at a time. On the wrong lawn you spend more time rescuing it than you ever spent pushing a mower. I have had both outcomes,…
Six years ago I moved from a courtyard plot to a half-acre with beds at both ends of it. My old 20-metre hose would not reach the far ones, so I bought two cheap 15-metre extensions and joined them together. That was my first mistake. Flow…
Pruning is one of the most important gardening tasks, but it can also be one of the most exhausting. After
Most advice about small-space furniture assumes a small garden. A small garden is generous next to a balcony. I keep a tape measure in my jacket pocket for exactly this reason. Last March I stood in a courtyard in Bristol that measured…
