The warmer weather of late summer has given us all a breathtaking display of colours in the trees as the leaves fade from green all through pale yellows to reds as rich as raspberry jam.
The autumnal colours are probably the best they have ever been and you should try to tear yourself away from the house and garden for a walk in the country before it all comes to an end.
But for the gardener the beauty of autumn is tinged with the realisation that very soon all those beautiful leaves will tumble to the lawns and flower beds giving us a fair amount of back breaking work with a tined leaf rake.
Indeed the recent gales have stripped many sycamores and fruit trees bare (depending on where in the country you live) so leaf clearing cannot be put off any longer.
Mowdirect supplies more leaf sweepers and garden blower-vacs than anyone else in the country, so if you need a mechanical hand clearing them away then have a look at our site.
You will find plenty of advice on which machine to choose, from the simple hand-propelled sweeper and sweepers which can be towed behind a tractor to hand-held garden vacuums which both blow leaves into a pile and then vac them up.
Many now offer the additional facility of shredding them as you go so they can be blown back on to over-wintering shrubs or put on to the com post heap where they will mulch down quicker for valuable garden compost.
We stock all the country’s leading brands including Ryobi, Stihl, Echo, Flymo, Al-Ko, Agri-Fab and Billy Goat.
But we can now also supply the really lightweight Toro which (unusually for an electric model) can be used as either a dedicated leaf blower or just as a garden vacuum saving a great deal of effort when using the tool.
Toro Blower-Vacs start at just £109, and we think it is exceptional value for money considering its performance.
