 |  | | | History of Gardening | 29 August 2006 | | |
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 even adapted a cloth-shearing machine to create the first lawn mower.
But just how much have things changed in the garden? Jenny Uglow, the author of 'A Little History of British Gardening' talks to Katy Hickman about the hard-graft - and the kit to do it. | |
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