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Carrots don't come out of the ground clean Neither do potatoes, beetroot, parsnips or anything else worth digging up. Allotment harvests arrive in ...

Three weeks in, every seedling looks the same Sow a tray of tomatoes, a tray of chillies and a tray of peppers on the same afternoon. Three weeks l...

The weather report you can read with the kettle on There's a particular kind of early spring morning that catches gardeners out. The sun's up, the ...

For the bolt that rolled under the staging Anyone who has built an aluminium greenhouse knows the feeling. You've counted the bolts twice, you're t...

Climbers don't read the instructions Plant a clematis at the foot of a fence and it will cheerfully climb in every direction except the one you had...

Evergreen, by post Long before anyone sent a Christmas card, people marked midwinter by bringing greenery indoors. Branches of holly, trails of ivy...

Know what it's really like in there A greenhouse on a sunny March afternoon can feel like the tropics. The same greenhouse at four in the morning c...

The tie you can undo Every allotment shed has a jam jar of snipped cable ties somewhere. Each one did its job for a few months, then met the secate...

A mister you won't want to hide in the cupboard Most plant misters spend their lives under the sink, between the bleach and a sponge that has seen ...

A proper corduroy glove that doesn't fall apart in the rain Corduroy has a reputation for going stiff and unpleasant the moment it gets wet, which ...

A glove built to be seen, not just worn Most gardening gloves are designed to blend into the background, which is exactly the wrong approach for an...

A glove built to be seen, not just worn Most gardening gloves are designed to blend into the background, which is exactly the wrong approach for an...

A glove built to be seen, not just worn Most gardening gloves are designed to blend into the background, which is exactly the wrong approach for an...

A proper leather glove, sized for a bigger hand Rose pruning and bramble clearance are hard enough on the hands without also wrestling a glove that...

There's a particular kind of frustration that only allotment holders and keen gardeners know well: hands deep in compost, phone buzzing in your po...

Small hands get a raw deal in the gardening glove world. Most ranges are designed around a medium fit first, with the smaller size treated as an af...

Built for the physical jobs, sized for a bigger hand Some gardening jobs need more than a light pair of gloves designed for weeding and pricking ou...

A glove that's too small doesn't just feel uncomfortable, it actively gets in the way, cramping your fingers and cutting the grip you're rel...

Every gardener needs at least one pair of gloves that just works, regardless of what the job is. The M8, the medium size in Smart Garden's M...

Precision work in the garden gets harder the moment your gloves stop fitting properly, and nowhere is that more obvious than with smaller ha...

Leather protection without the usual leather hassle Most leather gardening gloves come with an unspoken trade-off: real protection, but a nightmare...

Feel first, protection built in Most gardening gloves ask you to choose: grip and protection, or the kind of feel that lets you do delicate work pr...