Garland Colander Trug | Garden-to-Kitchen Harvest Basket

Garland Colander Trug | Garden-to-Kitchen Harvest BasketOne of those genuinely clever pieces of garden kit that quietly improves an everyday task harvesting fruit and vegetables from the garden, then washing them clean, traditionally requires two containers and a fair bit of mess between garden and kitchen. The Garland Colander Trug solves both at once. It's a generously sized harvesting trug with built in drainage holes at one end carry your produce in, then rinse and drain straight into the kitchen sink

so can be diluted with rainwater to make it slightly acidic

Spring borders that come back twice as strong start with winters that get this kind of attention

Suits small to medium hands — properly sized for women's and smaller men's hands rather than a compromise tool

The English Garden magazine featured these in their roundup of the best anvil secateurs available in the UK — particularly praising the sharpness of the blade

aubergines for the summer harvest

Bird Feeding Stake — stakes with functional elements

If you've had wrist twinges from gardening — even mild ones — these are worth trying alongside whichever everyday pair you already use

Critical: storage and freshness

Removing a seedling from a 12cm deep traditional cell is genuinely difficult — you can't easily push it out from below without damaging the long root system that's developed inside

Sweet pea seed sowing — mixed into seed compost for the drainage sweet peas need at germination stage

WinterMix from Dandy's is exactly that — a peat-free

and consistent stock levels because they handle their own inventory