Competition
Scroll down to triumph the three-part prize, including hedge trimmer, leafage blower and weeder
- Veronica Lorraine, Gardening Editor and Associate Head of Features
- Published: 15:32, 20 Sep 2024
- Updated: 15:32, 20 Sep 2024
The leaves are falling, and present it's clip to deliberation astir doing an plot wide up.
To assistance you connected your way, 1 precise fortunate victor volition triumph an Autumn bundle worthy implicit £400 - acknowledgment to Flymo.
You’ll instrumentality location a Flymo EasiWeeder worthy £159.99, a Flymo EasiCut 450 hedge trimmer worthy £137.09 and a £149 Flymo EasiClear leafage blower.
Gardening adept Sarah Bentham, from Flymo, told Sun Gardening 5 apical tips for clearing your extracurricular space. Remember you tin ever usage the fallen leaves to make Leaf Mulch.
- Safety is key.
Before you get started, retrieve leafage blowers are designed to stroke plot debris astatine precise precocious speed, therefore, extortion is needed for your eyes and ears if you are utilizing a loud, almighty petrol blower. Also, if it’s been raining, debar walking implicit the slippery aboveground of bedewed fallen leaves.
- Consider your space.
Next, it’s important to see the abstraction you’re moving with. Keep successful caput that removing leaves from a gravel way poses much challenges compared to a long, grassy lawn. Therefore, marque definite you program your route, ensuring that the leaves are blown successful a harmless absorption arsenic a almighty leafage blower oregon vacuum could perchance harm the look of your plot oregon adjacent the instrumentality itself erstwhile utilized connected gravel.
- Use varying speeds.
Make definite to acceptable your blowing velocity to lucifer the requirements of the task. When dealing with harder surfaces, opt for a slower velocity to efficiently negociate leaves and writer clipping with control. Some leafage blowers nutrient precocious sound levels, truthful amusement information to your neighbours by choosing a quieter mounting that tin grip the occupation without causing disruption.
- Blow with the wind.
Instead of moving against it, stroke successful the absorption of the upwind to harness afloat powerfulness to get escaped of the leaves without your enactment being undone. Begin by focusing connected the edges of your plot and stroke each debris to the centre, reducing the fig of leafage piles which volition prevention you clip and effort erstwhile it comes to collection.
- Divide and Conquer.
As you commencement to blow, disagreement your plot into sections to marque it much manageable. Swiftly region your leaves by cautiously blowing them into a heap successful each conception and onto a sheet. That way, transporting the fallen foliage to the plot bin oregon compost heap is easier.
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