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Jenny McFarlane

I swapped my hand fork for this clever cordless garden tool and it's made clearing weeds so much faster and easier

Garden bed with spade and daffodils .

After a long, wet winter, my garden definitely needed tending to, and after a lot of effort, meticulously weeding my garden borders by hand, I decided to bring out the big guns in the form of the Ryobi Cordless Handheld Cultivator, £144.95 at Amazon.

Our veg beds and front borders had become overgrown, weeds were popping up everywhere, and I knew I needed something to help me clear it all more efficiently without damaging existing plants and bulbs starting to bud and flower. I went on a bit of a mission to figure out how to get rid of weeds naturally without having to hunch over a flower bed for hours with a garden fork, or worse, resorting to chemicals that might damage my plants.

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