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Amateur Gardening
|October 07, 2023
AS well as being good for our mental health, gardening is also great exercise.
This is fine for younger gardeners, but for the more senior among us it is easy to overdo it without realising. Reaching out while holding heavy loppers or shears is an arm-achingly tiring job. I have been trialling a number of specially developed everyday garden tools that are a lot less heavy to hold than standard models.
Wilkinson Sword Ultralight series
This story is from the October 07, 2023 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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