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Winter
is here
More
information about gardening in winter
with details of your winter gardening
jobs including planning your spring and summer
garden and selecting garden tools and plants
We
are in the depths of winter and the general advice
is to keep off the garden as much as possible
whilst it is wet. When you get a chance and if
the ground is reasonable condition, you can continue
with tidying up, cutting and trimming roses or
shrubs, pruning and lopping of large shrubs and
trees. Winter gardening is about planning for
next season, selecting plants and new garden tools
such as :
Gardening
& Loppers - there is an array of different
loppers for winter gardening 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. A geared action mechanism in a
heavy duty lopper is ideal for winter garden tasks.
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.
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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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Winter
gardening & Pruners - for small scale
cutting and trimming, I have included a range
of top quality anvil pruners and traditional by-pass
secateurs. Some small scale winter pruning can
be done, but not when frosty as the cold can kill
plants.
Winter
gardening & Lawn Care - in this section
I have included the lawn care tools needed for
those winter jobs such as lawn aerator, lawn
spiker and lawn sweeper, or leaf sweeper.
Most are from the Sorby & Hutton range which
are British made to very high specifications and
should last you a long time. Make sure that you
sweep up those leaves using the lawn sweeper and
keep your Sorby & Hutton gardening tools well
maintained. Look
out for Bulb Planters
Winter
gardening & Hedge Trimming
As
well as pruning and secateur(ing) your shrubs
and trees, now is your final chance to cut and
trim those hedges.Hedge trimming should not be
left too late or the frosts will get into freshly
cut stems and kill them back. I do not stock electric
power tools only the hand held traditional hedging
shears for hedge trimming and hedge cutting. Again
look for high quality tempered steel blades which
will keep your hedging shears sharp for longer.
Happy
Winter gardening for all seasons in a garden for
all seasons and watch out for the flying gardener
as well as the gardening angels and the city gardener.
Winter
gardening from the BBC
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