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Thursday, June 27, 2024

The best gardening tools: essential kit, chosen by experts

From watering cans to twine, shoes to trowels, here are the products our garden writers can’t live without – and the things they wouldn’t waste money on

If I were restricted to one gardening implement it would always come down to the border spade. Short of snipping twine, or preparing a deckchair gin and tonic, there is little I can’t achieve in the garden with this hardy, slim-size and most cooperative of tools.

Whether it’s digging out borders, edging lawns, planting-out, laying mulch and – lay aside thy fork! – dividing perennials, this is the perfect tool for me.

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