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History of British Gardening: 3 14听May听2004
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The tools for the job

Visit any garden centre and you'll be bombarded with the very latest in gardening tools: retractable hose for ease of watering, hoes and even swoes for quick weeding. If there's a job to do in the garden, someone's invented a tool or a chemical to help you.

Back in the 1830s an engineer in a textile factory adapted a cloth-shearing machine to create the first lawn mower. But just how much have things changed in the garden?

In the last of our series on the history of gardening, Jenny Uglow talks to Katy Hickman about the hard-graft.





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