Tools on Test

Stiga Battery Garden Tractor Swift 372e

Stiga Swift 372e Battery Garden Tractor

Stiga Swift 372e... the combination of its size and tight turning circle means it can get around most areas of lawn. The battery life is good and it’s very quiet....

Stiga Swift 372e Battery Garden Tractor

Stiga Swift 372e... the combination of its size and tight turning circle means it can get around most areas of lawn. The battery life is good and it’s very quiet....

Jakoti Hand Shears

Jakoti Hand Shears

These are small shears (overall length 30cm) designed to be used with one hand, they’re more like scissors than the traditional sheep shear design. Their construction is all metal apart...

Jakoti Hand Shears

These are small shears (overall length 30cm) designed to be used with one hand, they’re more like scissors than the traditional sheep shear design. Their construction is all metal apart...

Cutting hedge at Barnsdale Gardens with Bulldog Hedge Shear Wavy Blade

Bulldog Hedge Shear Wavy Blade

These shears performed really well, I used them to trim a Lonicera nitida hedge as well as some Beech, they cut cleanly through the fine growth as well as thicker...

Bulldog Hedge Shear Wavy Blade

These shears performed really well, I used them to trim a Lonicera nitida hedge as well as some Beech, they cut cleanly through the fine growth as well as thicker...

Using Bulldog anvil secateurs to cut back Verbena bonariensis in the Mediterranean Garden at Barnsdale Gardens.

Bulldog Anvil Pruning Shear

I pruned branches in an apple tree and found they require less effort than bypass secateurs. I also hard-pruned a Sambucus and they managed well with stems up to about...

Bulldog Anvil Pruning Shear

I pruned branches in an apple tree and found they require less effort than bypass secateurs. I also hard-pruned a Sambucus and they managed well with stems up to about...

Weeding at Barnsdale Gardens with the Niwaki Hori Hori

Niwaki Hori Hori Weeding Trowel with Canvas Sheath

The Hori HoriĀ Japanese Weeding Trowel is a short hand-tool consisting of a beechwood handle and a carbon steel blade.

Niwaki Hori Hori Weeding Trowel with Canvas Sheath

The Hori HoriĀ Japanese Weeding Trowel is a short hand-tool consisting of a beechwood handle and a carbon steel blade.

Niwaki Sentei Secateurs used to prune Bay at Barnsdale Gardens

Niwaki Sentei Secateurs

Niwaki describe these secateurs as designed for light use but at Barnsdale Gardens we don’t generally do light use, so they’ve been really put through their paces.

Niwaki Sentei Secateurs

Niwaki describe these secateurs as designed for light use but at Barnsdale Gardens we don’t generally do light use, so they’ve been really put through their paces.