Basic Gardening Tools: The Garden Fork

The garden fork is one of the most important tools one could have living in their shed. Apart from the pick it’s probably the first tool we grab when the job requires a little more grunt. It’s multiple pronged action can loosen soil with minimal damage to plant roots;...

My New Garden Chipper Shredder: A Review

If you’re serious about composting, or at least consciously aware that recycling is more essential than convenient, then you’ll need one of these bad-boys – a chipper shredder – in your gardening arsenal. For months I’ve been piling up all my prunings in a large heap...

An Easy Tip for Cleaning Garden Tools

“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.” Walter Chrysler This quote has been my mantra ever since I was introduced to it at the start of my working life. And when it comes to cleaning up anything...

Gardening Tools on a Tight Budget

Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Thomas Carlyle – BrainyQuote When you begin gardening as a hobby, getting all the garden tools can be insanely expensive if you’re planning to buy...