A tyre rubber skip is useful to have around the garden
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Tip: useful kit to start the year
Wherever your garden sits on the one-to-10 scale of manicured or wild, it will benefit from action against the unacceptables to create space for more of the desirables. This means grubbing about on the ground. Some posh new kit could make this activity less of a chore this year: