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  New year is the ideal time to start planning your month by month gardening calendar, where you decide which plants to grow, choose what garden machinery to buy, and determine how best to enjoy your garden over the coming year. With this in mind, let's take a look at a typical garden maintenance schedule [...]

  Regular pruning promotes better health and encourages new growth in plants and trees, as well as helping maintain their structure. And generally speaking, winter pruning is best for most deciduous species. Why Prune Deciduous Plants and Trees in Winter? Because deciduous plants and trees are dormant at this time of year, they suffer less [...]

  Most garden tools have metal components. Depending on the type of tools and machinery concerned, this might just encompass their blades or extend to other areas, such as the housing. Either way, if you’re going to effectively maintain your gardening equipment this winter, you need to know how to protect its metal parts from [...]

  Chainsaw files are essential tools, used for sharpening the cutting edge of a chainsaw. They help maintain the ideal angle and depth of the chainsaw’s teeth, optimising the tool’s cutting performance and extending its lifespan. However, it’s vitally important that you choose the right chainsaw file size to match your model of chainsaw. Failure [...]

  Log splitters are available in a range of sizes, have varying levels and sources of power, and are used both domestically and in commercial settings. What these machines all have in common is that they are designed to cut logs into smaller, more manageable pieces of firewood. Here, we explain why you should consider [...]

  With winter on the doorstep, it’s important to prepare and store your garden tools correctly, so they’re well protected from the challenging weather we’re likely to see over the next few months. Not only will this keep your garden tools in good working order and prolong their lifespan, it will ensure that they’re immediately [...]

  Few garden tools work harder than chainsaws, so they need to be properly looked after. Effective chainsaw maintenance encompasses tasks that need carrying out whenever you’ve used the tool, as well as those that are only done periodically. Here, we provide a rundown of all the basic chainsaw maintenance tasks, to help you keep [...]

  With the temperature starting to drop and nights drawing in, there are plenty of clear reminders that winter’s not too far away. Bearing this in mind, now is the ideal time to prepare your garden for winter, by protecting both the natural and manmade elements of your outdoor area from the colder, harsher weather [...]

  Robotic mower technology has hugely advanced over recent years. And one particular range has really caught our eye, so much so that we really want to shout about it. This particular range of robotic mowers is the Segway Navimow i Series. What Makes the Navimow i Series So Special? These Segway robot mowers have [...]

  Clearing leaves is a key garden maintenance task every autumn, so let’s take a look at the most effective ways you can do it. We’ll start things off by summarising the reasons why leaf collecting is such an important job. We’ll then examine not only the best garden tools for clearing leaves but for [...]

  Pruning is one of gardening’s key tasks. It involves carefully removing certain parts of a plant, with the aim of promoting new growth. When done correctly, pruning will dramatically improve your plants’ health, appearance and overall structure. But if you prune badly, it will do far more harm than good. And if you’re going [...]

  Hedges consist of lines of shrubs or small trees, which have been planted closely together to form a living wall. Suitable for use as a garden boundary, privacy screen or to compartmentalise an outdoor area, they provide valuable shelter and food for insects, birds and small mammals. Hedges are highly effective ways to capture [...]