Summer is here at last and your efforts are now being rewarded. So, take it easy, sit back on your stylish garden furniture, and just enjoy the scenery. You don't want to be digging or doing manual hard labour summer gardening when it's hot and humid, get out the table, find those chairs in the shed, poor yourself a beer or mix yourself a pink gin and just relax.

Summer gardening

Whilst you are relaxing, you may wish to plan ahead for the next year (yes it is not too soon). Before you know it, those bedding plants for next spring will start to appear and you not even decided where it will all happen.

Also, summer gardening time is an opportunity to check out your garden tools and get them in shape for the work to come. Or perhaps it's time to consider treating yourself to something to make those tasks a little easier.

Summer gardening - some garden tools information

Loppers - there is an array of different loppers on the market today for summer gardening, 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. By-pass loppers give a clean cut and avoid the crushing of stems. However, sometimes you just simply need to get some leaverage into your summer gardening 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. The Sorby & Hutton loppers are more expensive, but you get what you pay for .. they are excellent.

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Summer Gardening - Pruners & Pruning

Pruners - For small scale cutting and trimming, there is a range of top quality anvil pruners and traditional by-pass secateurs. For your summer 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.

Lawn Care - keep cutting and collecting the grass (leaving grass cuttings will encorage moss). You can give your lawn a spiking to aerate then apply lawn feed. Summer gardening is about enjoying your lawn, so getout the garden games and have fun.

Hedge Trimming

It's that time of year when things are growing full on, so you will be busy with hedge trimming for some time yet. As well as pruning and secateur(ing) your shrubs and trees, summer gardening is your chance to cut and trim those hedges to show off their true potential.

Happy Summer Gardening for all seasons in a garden for all seasons.

Summer gardening from the BBC

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