Gardening tips for February: See to tools
Minor repairs and an audit of tools is an extremely useful way to move forward in the garden in February
At last, the day dawns when nothing can be done in the garden, leaving us free to organise the toolshed. The top priority is a kit survey.
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The good gardener, of course, puts only clean tools away, but an annual campaign of minor repairs-such as replacing the spring on a pair of secateurs or renewing the wire flex on a cylinder mower throttle-is better done now than dealing with the crisis in the field at the least-convenient moment.
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