{"id":132556,"date":"2022-12-09T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/power-tools-are-scary-so-its-handheld-pruners-for-my-hedges-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:21:42","slug":"power-tools-are-scary-so-its-handheld-pruners-for-my-hedges-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/power-tools-are-scary-so-its-handheld-pruners-for-my-hedges-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tools are scary so it\u2019s handheld pruners for my hedges | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith good loppers and a pruning saw you can let the wintry light back in without the need for a trimmerI am drowning in prunings, tripping over the stuff every time I try to hang out the washing, and still I have yet to make even a dent in the hedge. If I were a different person I would either get someone else to do it, or at least buy myself the mother of all hedge trimmers and make light work of it all.But I am not that person. I am one who has a deep, and perhaps deeply un-lesbian, distrust of power tools. I just don\u2019t like how fast they go. Thus, my only option is to spend the winter going at it bit by bit, by hand, until one day we can all see the light through the tangle of branches. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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