Spade on Tour
Earlier this year I wrote about Bulldog Tools being awarded a Guinness World Record™ for the world's biggest spade.
The spade successfully debuted at this year's Hampton Court Flower Show and has now gone on tour around the UK. The spade which was manufacture...
Tools to Trust
Many readers of this blog email to tell me that their old fashioned garden tools are much better than the ones available in garden centres today. Often the correspondent has inherited the garden spade, fork or hoe from a grandparent or even great grandparent!
It is therefore wi...
Fern Britain
I am a self-confessed pteridophile and I don't care who knows it. Before you rush to your telephones to report my use of this blog to discuss my unhealthy interests, it is worth knowing that a pteridophile is in fact an enthusiastic collector of ferns and related plants.
My love...
Ethel Online
The UK Ethel Gloves website is now up and running!
The guys at Quality Garden Tools (Ethel's UK agent) now have a separate website devoted just to Ethel Gloves. Unlike the standard website which sells all sorts of garden tools and accessories, the new Ethel site is a mecca for f...
Lay it on with a Trowel
Over the last couple of months I feel as if half my life has been spent digging lots of little holes in my borders for all the plants that I've ordered, grown, been given and split. This hard work has resulted in a sore palm, wrist and elbow, mainly from striking roots, stones and even som...
