The 10 Best garden tools
Spring’s here, so it’s time to tackle that undergrowth... Make light work of your gardening with the right bits of kit
Tuesday 17 April 2012
VIEW GALLERY
Related articles
1. Eva Solo
£17.49, firebox.com
The stylish, cool and curving handles of this innovative trowel and fork set mean that they slot together neatly for storage.
2. Chelsea Gardener
£55, chelseagardener.com
Includes wooden handled, stainless steel planting trowel, hand fork and three tined cultivators – all in a beautiful display box
3.Clas Ohlson
£7.99, clasohlson.co.uk
This delightful kit with watering can, spade and rake is perfect for the aspiring junior gardener. Even two-year-olds can get stuck in.
4. Bulldogs Tools
£50 madebyhandsofbritain.com
This company has been hand-forging garden tools using traditional blacksmith techniques for 230 years.
5. Country Living
£24, johnlewis.com
Country Living excels at gifts for the home and garden, so it's no surprise that this pruner and knife set comes nicely packaged.
6. V&A
£49.99, alfrescobydesign.co.uk
This print was designed by William Morris in 1883 and adds a charming accompaniment to this stool/tool number.
7. Laura Ashley
£39.98, lauraashley.com
This charming four-piece long-handled tool set includes a wooden-handled transplanting trowel and cultivator.
8. Poundland
£2, poundland.co.uk
Both pretty and useful for someone with no more than a window box, a couple of plant pots or a small roof garden.
9. Burgon & Ball
£36, qvcuk.com
This is a slightly more agile range of female-friendly gardening tools. Contains a sieve, scoop and weeder.
10. Draper
£15.84, amazon.co.uk
Draper Tools is a family run company that has been selling great-quality equipment for nearly 100 years.
Life & Style blogs
How can the mortgage market recovery be helped?
Guest post by Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv chartered surveyors
Wandsworth tops aspiring young professionals hotspot list
Other popular areas include Didsbury, Clifton in Bristol, central Cambridge and West Bridgford
- 1 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
Zoopla SmartMaps
Search exactly where you are interested in living by editing our area boundaries - or drawing your own.
Get your summer started with British Military Fitness
BMF is the UK’s biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes
Visit York
Find out what The Independent's resident travel expert has to say about one of the most beautiful small cities in the world
Making reading fun for kids
Nook is donating eReaders to volunteers at high-need schools and participating in exclusive events throughout the campaign.
Introducing the 'Get Reading' campaign
Get the latest on The Evening Standard's campaign to get London's children reading.
Enter the latest Independent competitions
Win anything from gadgets to five-star holidays on our competitions and offers page.
Business videos from commercial thought leaders
Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.
Day In a Page
The man who's eaten everywhere
A Berliner in 1963 – but did John F Kennedy once admire Adolf Hitler?
Banned Iranian director to attend Cannes Film Festival
The 10 Best salt and pepper sets
Ferran Soriano: Predicting success if Manchester City 'vision' is followed
Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them


Comments