Radius® 3-Piece Tool Set from Lakeland – Product Review

Radius® 3-Piece Tool Set
Lakeland Ref 51729
Price: £26.99
not available in store

The set comprises cultivator, weeder and transplanter (trowel).

Curvaceously comfortable, the patented handles are ergonomically designed to work with the natural position of your wrist, maximising power while minimising stress. With aluminium blades that are both lightweight and strong, this set includes everything you’ll need to make tending to your flowerbeds a pleasure rather than a chore.

While I must say that I am not the greatest of friends of aluminium for use with garden tools in this case I may just make and exception. The one problem I can see with aluminium, however, is that that metal wears down faster often in comparison to steel. The other side of the coin, however, is that you can wash the tools and don't have to worry about whether or not they are 100% dry when you hang them up – the best way to store any garden tool – or not, as aluminium does not rust nor in any other way corrode.

The tools perform and handle well, are well balanced, and the half-moon, sort of, shaped handle allows for a much more natural holding and handling of the tools than do the straight handles of ordinary garden hand tools, be they trowels, cultivators, or what have you.

The proof of the pudding as to the strain reduction certainly will be in a prolonged use of the tools, especially in a more-or-less professional setting, but from what I have seen so far using the trowel (transplanter), and the weeder, they handle very well indeed.

The weeder I have found to be a very useful tool for the removal of weeds from the crack in paving. It actually has a lip on the underside designed to get into the groves in the paving and cleanly cut off the weeds.

Oh, did I say that I like the tools? Well, I do and very much so.

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Full Circle "Reach" Bottle Brush - Product Review

Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

Full Circle Reach Bottle Brush

This is a very uniquely designed bottle brush, allowing you to clean the inside of the bottle and the outside in one go. Simply place the longer end inside the bottle, squeeze the handle and presto – you are cleaning both the inside and outside at the same time. Talk about multi-tasking.

The Reach Bottle Brush is recycled plastic, recycled stainless steel and particulars are as follows:

• Handle and bristles are made with recycled plastic

• Wire is made from recycled stainless steel

• Hangs on faucet to dry

• Ergonomic, flexible handle

• 10" tall to reach to the bottom!

• Great for reusable water bottles, travel coffee mugs, baby bottles and more!

• Patent Pending

Aside from the fact that the Reach Bottle Brush woks well it looks good and, better still, it is rather green, though its real color is orange. While a bio-plast for the handle might still have been better rather than just recycled plastic, and other products of the Full Circle range indeed have parts that are from bio-plast it still pushes a lot of the right buttons, methinks.

I find the brush a great tool for cleaning bottles and glass jars and I love the ease with which the task is accomplished. In addition to that I love the fact that it can just be hung to dry while also looking good in the kitchen.

The Full Circle Reach Bottle Brush is now available in the UK also via Lakeland under the catalog reference #23055 and, I assume, will also be available in their various store outlets that Lakeland now have around the country.

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Potato Grow Pot from Lakeland – Product Review

Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

Potato Grow Pot

Manufactured by Alagra Products

Made in Britain

Lakeland Ref 51841

Not available in Lakeland stores, mail order only.

Price: £19.99

The Potato Grow Pot is a durable plastic multi-storey grow pot system for, well, spuds!

With a space-saving design so even the tiniest gardens, a patio or even balcony, can reap rewards. Just plant your tubers in the base pot and, as they grow, you can stack a second then third ‘collar’ and add more compost to increase the pot’s yield.

Providing the ideal growing conditions for a maximum crop of potatoes, the air circulates freely into the compost and, because each collar also has an external trough, watering and feeding each level can be accurate and precise. Made from what is said to be “durable” plastic.

The good thing is that you don't have to – and ideally shouldn't – leave the pots outside during the harshest parts of winter; some plastics certainly do not like too much on the frost front. When you have harvested your spuds you carefully dismantle the pot into its parts, clean everything and then store it all safely in your shed or garage, or wherever safe.

The Potato Grow Pot comes with full instructions and a PDF of them is also available to download from the website at www.alagraproducts.co.uk.

Each ‘collar’ has a diameter of 43cm, that is17 inches in old money, and is 23cm, that is to say 9 inches, tall. The total height is 61cm (24 inches) and the overall capacity 60 litres.

I have used a number of different types of containers in which to grow spuds – and other vegetables for that matter – and all require digging for the taters. The Potato Grow Pot does away with that in that, come harvest time, you simply take it down section by section and collect the potatoes from the soil. Simple.

Although maybe just a little early seeing it is just the first week of March I have started my first lot of potatoes now in the Potato Grow Pot and we shall see how things progress. If the grow or not will have little to do with the pot but everything to do with the elements, pests and diseases and my care of them, and pollinators also help.

The Potato Grow Pot, as said already, is great to have on the patio and at the price you might as well get two or three of them. The more spuds the merrier. But then again I love potatoes.

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