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Bright thinking. Five reasons for fitting garden lights
Enjoying your garden doesn’t have to end when the sun goes down. Here are five reasons why it’s worth installing some garden lights. I can see clearly now It’s the most obvious reason, but by lighting...
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It’s the digging and swigging Christmas Gift Guide 2015!
Another year of sowing and mowing and growing and brewing and digging and swigging is nearly over and the ‘to do’ list has mostly been done, ignored or forgotten. However, there is one important task...
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Dry me a dinner – test driving a food dehydrator
We have been known to enthuse about the benefits of drying harvests. From giving elderflowers longevity for future brewing, or to help use surplus chilli hauls, there are plenty of foods and flavours...
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Throughout most of winter we’re more than happy to ignore the garden in favour of a warm interior. Like a pub. There’s not much that needs doing outside, and there’s not much we want to do. But...
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Careful with that sappie, Eugene: your guide to unusual wood chopping tools
Chopping wood? Then you’ll obviously need an axe of some description. But there are also some less familiar tools that might just come in handy. Here are a few of them… Sappie A sappie has an axe-like...
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Winter pruning
If you can brave the cold weather and are prepared to forgo a nice warm duvet for a spot of outdoor hacky-choppy-action, now is the time to give your dormant apple trees a good prune before new season...
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Gardening review! Round metal trellis
Last weekend I was sent a round metal trellis to review from garden accessories retailer T J Hughes. It’s the kind of product that makes a scruffy garden (like mine) look a bit posher for a minimal...
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What is a chiminea and how do I use one?
Last month I received an email from online retailers chimineashop.co.uk asking if I would like to review a Gardeco Toledo Cast Iron Chiminea. Recent review requests had either been too poor to feature...
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Hendon Tripod Ladders. Are three legs better than four?
Earlier this year, when spring first started to show, I hauled my old step ladder from the shed for a few maintenance chores in the garden that needed doing above head height. Fix a window on the...
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The expert guide to garden security with Burg-Wächter
The sheds in our gardens and on the allotment are increasingly being rammed with ever more expensive equipment as we steadily accumulate products to make our gardening tasks that little bit easier....
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