TRIED AND TESTED
With Adam Kirtland, AG’s garden DIY ideas expert
New columnist Adam Kirtland offers some festive suggestions
What do you get the gardener that has everything already? You may be pondering still what to buy your green-fingered pals for the fast-approaching festive season. To help you on your way, in my first monthly Tried and Tested page, I’ve pulled together some savvy suggestions. Enjoy!
● Stihl are the front runners when it comes to tools that won’t necessarily break the bank but will do a perfect job. If the insideide of your car is anything like mine after a trip recycling your garden waste, then the SEA 20 (Stihl’s first cordless vacuum) is the answer!
For those bigger clean-up jobs in the garden, then the SHA 56 will have you blowing, vacuuming, and shredding leaves and hedge clippings to then use as a lovely free mulch over your borders. Both are available from shop.stihl.co.uk with prices starting from £80.
● For something extra special, then look no further than Japeto’s Japanese Gardening Tool Gift Box (RRP £124), featuring six toolsols that will help in almost any situation. ion.
Neatly packaged in a handcraftedaf wooden box, these really will make the ultimate gift for any gardener.
Japeto’s tools are known for their pure quality, and I, for one, would be thrilled to see this under the tree on Christmas morning. Japeto, are less than 10 years old, yet have established themselves with some of the most beautiful and versatile tools on the market. www.japeto.co.uk
● So you’ve got your tools but what are you going to carry them in? The Gardening Caddy Bag from Genus offers a lovely solution.
Genus have literally thought of everything that you could possibly want from a bag that does it all, with eight external pockets for those tools you need to grab quickly, and six internal pockets to hold everything else. There’s probably even
