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Gardening Tools for Kids
Which children's garden tools actually work, what to buy at each age, and why most brightly coloured plastic sets put kids off gardening rather than into it.
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Gardening Tools
Most gardeners own too many tools and use about six of them. Our tool guides are organised by situation rather than by category, because "which trowel is best" has a different answer for a beginner with a balcony than for someone with arthritis and forty raised beds.
We care about three things in a garden tool: whether the handle suits your hand, whether the business end holds an edge, and whether the join between the two will fail. Almost every tool that disappoints fails at the join.
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Buying guide4 min read
Gardening Tools for Raised Beds
Raised beds need a different tool kit from open ground — shorter handles, no spade, and a few things you would never buy otherwise. Here is what earns its place.
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Gardening Tools for Small Spaces
A short, cheap tool kit for container gardening — what you need on a balcony or patio, what full-size tools to leave out, and how to store it all in a metre of space.
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Gardening Tools for Seniors
Ergonomic garden tools that reduce grip force, wrist strain and bending — plus the design details that matter more than the word “ergonomic” on the packaging.
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Gardening Tools for Beginners
The twelve tools a new gardener genuinely needs, what to look for in each, what to spend, and the eight popular tools you can safely skip in your first year.
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