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Plan Your Drip Irrigation: Hose, Emitters, Timer and the Forgotten Pressure Reducer
How to plan a drip system that lasts all summer: the right chain of hose, emitters, timer and pressure reducer.
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Harvesting Rainwater: What Your Roof Yields, Barrel vs. Cistern
Work out how much rainwater your roof delivers, then decide whether a barrel is enough or a cistern pays off.
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Holiday Watering: What Lasts Three Days and What Lasts Two Weeks
Stopgap solutions put to an honest test: which method carries three days, which a week, and what you really need for a fortnight.
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Building Garden Paths and Bed Edgings
Why the base layer decides how long your paths last, and how living edgings of box, lavender or thyme can replace the hard stone border.
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Winterize Your Garden Tools: Clean, Oiled, Frost-Safe
In CW 44 to 48 you get your spade, shears and batteries clean, oiled and frost-safe through the winter.
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Basic Tool Kit: Eight Pieces Instead of a 40-Piece Set
Eight good garden tools are all you need to start; how to spot quality and where to save.
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Sharpen and Care for Your Garden Tools: Angle, Resin and Rust
The right angle on the whetstone, plus resin and rust as the hidden blade killers: how to keep your garden tools sharp for years.
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Building a raised bed in layers
Four layers from coarse to fine, roughly 80 cm of fill height, and a plan for the yearly top-up: how to build a raised bed that keeps producing for years.