From raised bed to irrigation. Creating, caring for and equipping your garden so the work comes easier.
26 postsOne wheel or two, pneumatic tyres or solid rubber, barrow or cart: what spares your back, how to load properly and which numbers on the label actually mean something.
The garden should not hurt. A raised bed at 80 to 90 cm, a table bed you can pull up under, long handles, kinder grips, lifting from the legs and working in twenty minute stints instead of three hours in the same position.
Two gardens, the same lawn, a completely different impression: the difference is the last five centimetres at the edge. How to cut the edge with a half moon iron or a spade, what shears and trimmers do in between, and why a mowing edge laid flush with the lawn abolishes the trimming altogether. With prices and service life for metal, plastic, pavers, brick and timber.
Bypass secateurs, geared loppers, a pull saw and a pole pruner: what pruning really needs, where the cut belongs on the branch collar, how heavy limbs come down in three cuts, and why the wound sealant stays on the shelf.
The spade cuts, the digging fork breaks, the Sauzahn loosens without turning. Which digging tool suits sand, loam and stony ground, why digging over fell out of fashion, and when it still has to happen.
A rotary mower strikes, a cylinder mower shears. What the technology does to the finish, which drive suits which lawn, why a robot mower belongs in daylight, and when you are actually allowed to mow in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Four fields, a cross of paths, a roundel in the middle: the classic layout is a working order, not decoration. What the measurements actually do, what you edge with now that box has become a gamble, and how the crop rotation runs across the four fields.
Bypass for living wood, anvil for dead: why the design decides how the wound heals. Plus geared or ratchet loppers, hedge shears by hand or by motor, the right size for your hand, and the care that keeps a pair going for twenty years.
What suits what: a watering can with a removable rose, a hose on a click system, a drip line for the bed, a micro system with pressure reducer and timer. With the pressure figures, the filter rainwater needs, laying under mulch and the right order for draining everything down in autumn.
