I’ve been splitting logs for years, mostly at my family’s garden centre, as we sell our own firewood, which we split mostly with a good old-fashioned log-splitting axe or maul with the Spear & Jackson Razorsharp 6.5 lb Log Splitting Maul being a favourite of mine. With this in mind, I thought I would share my experience here. I now mostly split my own logs for my wood-burning stove I had installed a few years…
I’ve been cutting and splitting logs and making kindling for around 15 years. I started doing this at my family garden centre, where we sell seasoned logs that we cut ourselves. Back in the day, we used a good old-fashioned hatchet and a smaller splitting axe like the Roughneck ROU65640 Axe, which is 1¼lbs for the kindling. These days I think there are much better ways for making kindling. Over the last six years since…
Over the years, I’ve owned a few convector heaters and Mica heaters, which are very similar and often used interchangeably. However, they are different types of heaters, but very similar. With Micro heaters such as my favourite, this Duronic HV220 Mica Heater, the heating element is covered in thin sheets of mica. Micathermic heaters produce both convection heat and radiant heat which is what makes them unique. I’ve reviewed my greenhouse heaters from Biogreen as…
As a professional gardener, in the autumn, when the leaves begin to fall, there is one garden tool I won’t be without. That is my Spear & Jackson Neverbend Leaf Rake pictured below. It really is a lovely rake to use but more on this in a minute. Over the last 20 years, I’ve used countless garden rakes for my garden maintenance jobs and on my family’s small nursery and small holding. Most only last…
If there is one garden tool I wouldn’t be without, especially in autumn, it’s a decent leaf grabber. In particular, a long-handled leaf grabber or leaf collector like my Clear N Collect Leaf Rake Grabber, which I think is one of the best leaf grabbers. It’s one of those garden tools I wish I had invested in sooner! As a professional gardener and nurseryman for over 20 years, I always try to invest a little…
