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Get yourself moving
- it's Spring Gardening time again
If
the ground is too sticky, then stay inside and
read your spring gardening guide. In the meantime,
get into your shed and drag out all your spring
gardening tools. Lay them all out and examine
them for wear. Clean your spring gardening tools
and oil them. Replace your spring gardening tools
if necessary. Your lawn mower will want a good
service, so now is the time to change the oil,
clean the air filter and sharpen those damaged
blades. Spring into action and get yourself motivated.
Spring
Gardening - Preparing your lawn
Stick
it in, spike it up, plug it out and sand it down.
Roller spiker or hollow tine aerator - these are
top quality British made tools from the Sheffield
based Sorby & Hutton range. Lawn
Care - in this section I have included the
lawn care tools needed for those spring gardening
jobs such as lawn aerator, lawn
spiker and lawn sweeper, or leaf sweeper.
Most spring gardening tools are from the Sorby
& Hutton range which are British made to very
high specifications and should last you a long
time. Lawn spiker and aerator tools are designed
to open up the lawn to allow air to enter. This
is an important process for maintaining your lawn
free and helps with drainage and allows for back
filling with sand and autumn lawn feed. Make sure
that you sweep up those leaves using the lawn
sweeper and keep your Sorby & Hutton garden
tools well maintained.
Spring
Gardening - Pruners & Pruning
For
small scale cutting and trimming, there is a range
of top quality anvil pruners and traditional by-pass
secateurs. For your spring gardening pruners,
choose on size and action. If you are needing
accurate cuts on delicate stems, then choose a
by-pass scissor action pruner. Alternatively for
heavier duty work on tougher stems, choose an
anvil action pruner. If you have a weakness in
your hand, then choose a ratchet pruner or geared
action pruner and finally if you are left handed,
then select a left handed pruner which has been
designed for your needs.
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Living in the UK ? - If you live in the
UK - you can buy garden tools from my affiliate
site as below - brackets ( ) indicate number of
garden tools available per category - so there
are plenty to choose from :
Knives (20) Shredders (18) Grass trimmers
(102) Lawn mowers (81) Rakes (51) Axes (61) Bulb
planters (3) Edging irons (15) Loppers (57) Spades
(41) Hand Forks/Trowels (76) Lawn scarifiers (18)
Scythes& hooks (6) Tree pruners (9) Chain
saws (74) Hedge trimmers (9) Log splitters (3)
Secateurs (99) Watering hose & accessories
(50) Garden shears (5) Shredders (9) Spreaders
(3) all from Wilkinson Sword, Wolf, Spear &
Jackson and other top makes.
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Spring
Gardening - Loppers and other spring gardening
tools
There
is an array of different loppers on the market
today but each is designed for a specific task
for your spring gardening. A tough woody thick
stem will require a heavy duty geared anvil lopper.
These are really too heavy to handle those smaller
thin fleshy stems which should be tackled with
a lightweight by-pass scissor action cutting blade.
These by-pass loppers give a clean cut and avoid
the crushing of stems. However, sometimes you
just simply need to get some leaverage in to cut
through those thicker branches. A geared action
mechanism in a heavy duty lopper is ideal. The
better the quality of steel, the longer the sharp
edge will keep, so the more expensive the lopper,
usually the better quality tempered and hardened
higher carbon quality steel you get. For spring
gardening, the Sorby & Hutton loppers are
more expensive, but you get what you pay for and
they are excellent quality.
Happy
Spring gardening for all seasons in a spring garden
for all seasons. Have you seen the flying spring
gardener, the city gardener yet or the gardening
angels?
Spring
gardening from the BBC
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