Barnsdale Gardens Tools On Test
Barnsdale Gardens Tools On Test: Autumn is here and so are the leaves…piles of them littering the lawns at Barnsdale Gardens! So it has been the perfect time to try out the next tools on test products, this time from Burgon & Ball.
The gardening team who look after the 38 individually designed gardens based in Rutland, couldn’t wait to get their mitts on The BoronGreen Lawn Rake. Any useful tool at this time of year really does make their job a lot easier!
Barnsdale Gardens Tools On Test
The BoronGreen Lawn Rake Review
Rakes come in many shapes and sizes, and they’re designed with different uses in mind; at Barnsdale, the team have used a vast amount of different rakes over the years. This one from Burgon & Ball is a lawn rake, and it’s intended for removing grass clippings, dead grass, debris and moss (thatch) as well as autumn leaves.
First, the rake has a 25-year guarantee, and it certainly looks and feels like a quality tool – the finish is very smooth with no rough or sharp edges, the wooden white ash shaft (FSC certified) has been selected for its strength and shock-absorbing qualities. The flat head is green powder-coated and consists of 20 flexible tines made of Boron steel (80% recycled). The Boron steel claims to be stronger, more durable and tougher, without dramatically increasing the weight.
The overall weight is 1.27 kg, length 166cm, with a head width of 44cm. The rake felt quite heavy but not in a bad way, more of a built-to-last, quality kind of weight. The length felt just about right for the Barnsdale gardeners, and the narrow head was well suited to raking leaves out of borders, in between shrubs and other plants.
As for raking out thatch, it did a super job, the team were surprised at how much it pulled out without too much effort. When raking up autumn leaves from a lawn, it worked well, but they wouldn’t buy it specifically for this job, the narrow head isn’t best suited for large-scale leaf clearing, and they would rather use a lighter rake with a wide plastic head. Note…Burgon & Ball recommend their RHS-endorsed Leaf Rake for this job or their Corona BigLOAD Leaf Rake.
Conclusion: All in all, this is a really good and solid rake; for the average-sized garden, it would be perfect, and it feels as if it will last a lifetime.
You can buy this RHS-endorsed rake from the Burgon & Ball website at a RRP of £29.99
You can read all of the team’s Tools On Test here: https://shop.barnsdalegardens.co.uk/blogs/tools-on-test
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