These Bosmere N450 Long Handled Leaf Grab is similar to some of the Draper leaf grabber I mentioned earlier. This helps to take the strain off your hands and make it a bit more comfortable for you to use this tool. Thanks to the adjustable handles, they'll fit a range of hands sizes and their polycarbonate material means they're lightweight and easy to clean. Voted ‘Best on Test’ with a five star rating, proving to be so popular that most testers said they would purchase one for their own use.

Leave the bag somewhere out of sight, such as behind the shed, to break down for up to two years, and use as a soil conditioner for your garden – a hassle-free winter gardening task. A further option would be to make use of a hand rake that boasts a built in grabbing mechanism, giving you a great combination for maximal leaf collecting. We act as a credit broker not a lender, offering credit products provided exclusively by Klarna Bank AB UK branch (BR020956), a branch of Klarna AB (556737-0431) which is authorised and regulated by the Swedish Financial Services Authority. As the name suggests, you can wear the former in a glove-like fashion and protect your hands from wet leaves and slugs as you remove large handfuls of leaves from pathways. As a professional gardener and nurseryman for over 20 years, I always try to invest a little more to get a good, sturdy leaf grabber that won’t twist and will handle my autumn cleanups and, more importantly, speed up the process and make my life a little easier.But, speaking as a landscaper, there are some common garden design mistakes that really get my goat. What I do like about this model is that the bottom of the blades has teeth in them to help scrape up the leaves rather than having a smooth edge, clippings, debris and other things that find their way onto your lawn or driveway. The long handles and wide blades mean you can easily scoop up leaves without having to bend down to pick them up. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.

For all wood handled tools apply a light coating of boiled linseed oil to help prevent the wood from drying out and cracking. A clever design and one to think about if you're fed up of suffering from backache after a day in the garden. There's a hook for easy storage, and they should be easy to find in a cluttered shed thanks to the bright colour. It has handlebar handles so only one tubular handle goes into each paddle, and only one bolt holds both handles together.Highly recommend My husband thought it was just a gadget, but had to eat his words as this ‘gadget’ ready does work.

I usually fill a few bags up with moist leaves, put some holes in them with a garden fork, and leave them out of sight behind the shed for 12 months or so until all that is left is dark black soil.So I still rake them into piles with a plastic tine leaf rake but then I can lift them with this leaf grabber and also rake again by opening it up to get those last few leaves without having to grab the rake again to finish the job off. If you have smaller gardens, then I would probably recommend just going with the Darlac leaf grabber and saving some money. Sometimes, these glove grabbers are so large that you don’t have to bend down far to pick up the leaves. The teeth on the lower edge of the blades help you in collecting the leaves and other debris on the ground. Use this grabber to get hold of the leaves and other stray bits on your garden and lift it all into your collection bin or bag.