Tools And Equipment

I had a fabric one ,it fell apart

I lay a plastic sheet/tarpaulin in the garage (dry and no wind!!) and run the spreader over it N times neatly running over exactly the same row and distance. I length of the row, and the width that the spreader has spread, tip the fertilizer / whatever into a container and weigh it, and then I...

I certainly do, albeit a small hexagonal one. I'm keeping the propagator in the dining room and have moved all cuttings etc there too. Way too cold outside! Still snowing here today...

Thanks folks, this is just what I'm looking for - much obliged.

As I said above, whoever you get in, make sure you get them to rake to cores off ... some bigger companies refuse to as it takes too long and they will try to fob you off with some excuse for not doing a decent job. The cores are a perfect home for weeds, they'll look terrible and make mowing...

Hello everybody . i'm a gardener in israel and i make my own cordless tools. i find much interest in my hobby that is also part of my work . the only problem is that i just didn't find another gardener in the whole world that makes his own power tools. i would be very happy if i can find...

As my mood states (confused)

Such a pity about Spear and Jackson. Had loads of their tools years back and they were fine. I'm now reliably informed that Spear and Jackson is now an American owned company and 3 guesses where their tools are made?... yup China.

Think you'll be looking at a second hand one Mark if you want one of the good names. I bought one for under that off fleabay and it is a bang up piece of kit but not suitabnle for a pro using it day in, day out.

I had a look at a few different petrol shredders, all of them were better than anything electric. However none of them would guarantee shredding soft material without clogging, which is what I wanted them to do. The best electric shredder is the Bosch one with an Archemedes type screw blade.

When my garden fence was climbed whilst I was away, by contractors, I enquired of their boss about them doing this, he was very concerned about "Elf and Safety, I replied "B@##$r elf and safety, I am thinking "Breaking and entering", so 'Elf and safety" rank second to lets get the job finished...

This product show's that the problem is leaving fuel in the tank of 2 strokes isn't the right thing to do, Ive verious garden machines and i make it part of the garden program to give them all a good service every year and i dont need to add another chemicle, briggs/stratten found out years ago...

Now i see the name Johnsenred thats what we had not a Husqavarna

I got mine from Lidl at least 7 years ago, I have it in the bathroom , which has a north facing window. The little sensor goes through the window.

I have a metal shed with the same condensation problem, it does have vents at both ends in the eaves but inside it still drips over winter. I have to cover stuff inside the shed with plastic sheets. I like Dave's idea of the depron, it looks quite cheap too, it would only cost me about £15 incl...

wow ! thanks for that.

Yes, I should have said I don't use it to break new ground, only till existing beds. Its not a digging machine - however, nor is a Merry Tiller or the like - need a cultivator (powered-wheels rather than just powered-tines) for digging virgin / fallowed ground I reckon, or my preference: JCB to...

I can also see it being a boon for shift workers (like me) - there are some days where I really struggle to water my plants simply because I am at work all day and into the night, so its not really practical to get the hose out at midnight or one in the morning. Normally, Mrs C would take care...

I've just put a new clutch cable on my Honda 536 and noticed that the roller won't maintain an even height from left to right. When you set the roller height on the left side it is held firm by the height adjust handle, however the right side of the roller can move up or down around it's pivot....