If you love gardening but are not as able bodied as you used to be there are probably a few tasks that you find very difficult to carry out. With the world’s population being an aging one, more and more products are being brought on to the market that will allow lesser able people to maintain their independence and make every day tasks easier to carry out.
In the garden there are two tasks that are exceptionally demanding on the body that need to be carried out a couple of times a year at least. Even the most able bodied of people find them a challenge and these tasks leave them with blistered hands and an aching back. What are these tasks?
Removing leaves from your lawn
Both of these things – moss and fallen leaves – you will no doubt be aware can cause severe damage to a fine lawn and consequently need dealing with straight away. Removing moss and leaves the traditional way requires vigorous upper body motion and then plenty of bending down to pick up what you have just raked up. What I’d really like to focus on though is that of collecting leaves with a mechanical devce, as this is a task that will need repeating throughout the autumn and winter months – moss on the other hand is just a task that needs doing once or twice a year at the most.
A mechanical leaf sweeper will assist you greatly in clearing your lawn of unwanted leaves. They come as either powered or hand powered lawn sweepers but you will probably find that the hand powered versions will have more use to you (Lawnsweeperinfo.com has more information on the differences between hand powered and powered lawn sweepers). The rotating brushes on the base of a lawn sweeper will not only pick fallen leaves they will also pick up other debris off pavements and driveways. Powered lawn sweeper – although they have the rotating brushes – tend to have shredders built in them, so if you pick up any stones or grit it is going to damage the shredding mechanism.