Tools & Equipment

It’s February, you’re standing in six inches of waterlogged allotment mud, and the cheap wellies you bought from the supermarket last autumn have just split along the seam. Again. Your…

You are standing in B&Q staring at eight wheelbarrows ranging from £25 to £180 and you cannot tell what makes the expensive one worth seven times the cheap one. They…

You spent two hours weeding the raised beds on Saturday, got up, and your knees made a sound like someone cracking knuckles. By Sunday morning the stiffness had spread to…

You’ve just taken on an allotment that’s been neglected for two years. The soil is compacted, the weeds have roots that seem to go halfway to Australia, and the thought…

You planted out your courgette seedlings on a warm April afternoon, felt proud of your early start, and woke to find them black and wilted after an overnight frost. April…

Best garden hose UK 2026: Hozelock, Gardena, Spear & Jackson and Flexi Hose compared for expandable, anti-kink and allotment use.

You’ve spent weeks nurturing your strawberry plants from bare roots, watched the first white flowers appear, and then one morning you come out to find every single berry has been eaten overnight. Pigeons on the brassicas. Cabbage white butterflies finding your broccoli before you do. Blackbirds…

Every spring, the same thing happens. You buy a packet of tomato seeds, scatter them into whatever container you can find in the kitchen, balance the whole setup on a…

You’ve just signed the tenancy agreement for your allotment plot, or maybe you’ve sectioned off a corner of the garden for growing veg this year. Either way, you’re standing in…

Best garden forks and spades for UK gardeners, with tough picks for allotments, clay soil, borders and first garden tool kits.