{"id":40376,"date":"2017-01-11T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ditching-power-tools-made-me-a-happier-gardener\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T22:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:52:20","slug":"ditching-power-tools-made-me-a-happier-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ditching-power-tools-made-me-a-happier-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching power tools made me a happier gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHedge trimmers, shredders and chainsaws are all meant to make gardening easier, but when Julian Rollins switched to hand tools, he discovered the joys of a slow and steady approachPutting weekend papers into the recycling bin, an advert caught my eye. Among a tumble of sections of The Guardian and another, rival, publication, was a motoring section. Its back page was given over to an ad for gardening gadgets; strimmers, leaf-blowers and mowers, all beefed-up and top-of-the-range, presumably selected to catch the eye of the Top Gear set. How different my last few months would have been if I\u2019d had that \u201cfirepower\u201d to hand. Our garden isn\u2019t big, but we have lots of hedge. Actually, nearly all the boundary of our long, skinny property is hedge. That means one of the big jobs of the gardening year is hedge-taming. Until recently that involved two or three days of sustained slog with power trimmer, shredder and, here and there, a chainsaw. This year, though, it has taken a little longer. I started in September – and am still at it. Continue reading…
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