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Notes on the garden year

Two things worth knowing before you buy a tool for a season, written for gardens rather than for estates.

Last updated 29 September 2026

Pruning windows, month by month

Cut the right thing at the wrong time and you lose a year of flowers, or invite a disease that a different month would have avoided. The windows are narrower than most people think, and they are not the same for every plant.

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Battery tools through the winter

Most cordless tools are not killed by use. They are killed by five months in a cold shed on an empty pack. What to do in November so that April still works.

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