Get those green fingers working with these fun and practical gardening gifts and accessories from The Handpicked Collection
(01/09/2010)

Gardening is often all about organisation and precision, and the Seed Packets Organiser (£19.95) will ensure you plant seeds at the optimum time of year so sunflowers pop up in August and snowdrops bloom in the New Year. This stylish tin will help you collect, organise and store your seeds by ‘planting month’. It comes with pencils, monthly dividers and five special seed envelopes.

Now, it’s all very well planting the seeds at the right time, but what about the actual planting and spacing of seeds? The Seed & Plant Spacing Rule (£18.95) takes the guesswork out of planting. It features metric and imperial graduations as well as a special guide to the distance apart seeds should be planted.

Finally, once planted you need to know what is where and the Blackboard Plant Labels (£4.95) will help you to remember which plot is potatoes and which is poppies. The white writing can be easily removed so you can use them for years to come.

Seed Packets Organiser

Hands can often take a beating when gardening so protect those precious green fingers, with the Bradleys Anti-Bramble Gauntlets (£37.95). Made in the UK out of water repellent leather, these are simply the best. And what’s more, the long leather cuffs protect forearms from nasty brambles or thorns. For the cold winter, the Golf Leaf Winter Touch Gardening Gloves (£19.95) will keep hands warm and snug, while the Gold Leaf Dry-Touch Gardening Gloves (£16.95) are both water-resistant but very pliable so easy to do those essential jobs.

Bradleys Anti-Bramble Gauntlets

To get reluctant kids into the great outdoors and into the garden, surely a bright pink or green Wheelbarrow (£25.95) will do the trick? Girls and boys will love ferrying toys or siblings round the garden and you never know, you may even find you have a garden helper, especially if he or she has their very own Garden Basket (£14.95) with mini gloves, digging tools, a watering can and handy bag to carry them all around in. And if they get really keen, you could buy them an Allotment Starter Kit (£2.65) – little ones will watch in wonder as they realise how easy it is to grow their own yummy food.

Garden Basket

Finally, once all the hard work is done and before you pour yourself a well deserved cuppa, give your hands a pampering with this scented Gardener’s Barrier Handcream (£7.95) which will transform sandpaper skin into soft shakable hands. But remember a gardener is nothing without his tools, so give them a treat with the Garden Tool Wax & Revive Cream (£5.95) which is great for wooden handles and gets them looking as good as new.