Stick it in, spike it up, plug it out and sand it on. 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.

Pruners & Pruning for spring gardening

For small scale cutting and trimming, I have included a range of top quality anvil pruners and traditional by-pass secateurs. My best advice is to 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. Left handed secateurs are available in most of the range, but Felco pruners are particularly recommended. Please note that I now (used to) stock most of the Felco pruners which are Swiss made precision pruners used by most of the serious professional gardeners of today. Felco pruners are made from very high quality steel and retain their cutting edge. Felco pruners have replaceable components which are readily available. Felco pruners are amongst the best pruners you can but ... go on ... treat yourself ! By the way, there is no difference between a pruner and a secateur, however, you can prune but you can't secateur !!

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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. 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 .. they are excellent. For trees and taller shrubs use a tree lopper, tree pruner or pruning saw. A tree lopper can extend to 3.5 metres and will save you having to use a ladder and risk falling off. There are telescopic tree pruners and sectioned jointed aluminium tree loppers both designed to saw or cut using a ratchet or pulley rope system. when using your pruning saw, first cut under the branch then saw off from above. This will prevent ripping the bark of as the branch falls off (watch out from above !).

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?

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