Composting is gaining favour as waste management increasingly becomes an issue. As financial and ecological considerations take hold in the UK we are rediscovering ways of embracing the cycle of life. Composting and safety It's not hard to see the benefits of composting – all your vegetable cooking waste and [...]
A horrifying gardening accident made the news in the summer of 2011 when an American gardener slipped and pushed a pair of secateurs through his eye socket and into his skull. Remarkably, surgeons were able to extract the gardening tool and the man survived with very little to show for [...]
This case study warns of a few perils that we haven't actually covered in articles on this site yet, probably because they are so bizarre. Safety Second, or Even Third! Who would have thought that removing a tree stump could be so dangerous, being launched across a garden? And a [...]
At the risk of making it seem that he is a relentless pyromaniac this case study about the dangers of fire in the garden tells a true tale that happened to Brian Shaw*. He already appears in these pages in our case study about Safety and the use of flammable [...]
Time and time again you hear the warnings about bonfires and how dangerous they can be, particularly around bonfire night. But this isn’t a story about Guy Fawkes Night. No, it's a story about a common or garden bonfire that just wouldn't lie down and die. And it's a salutary [...]
Getting children involved with gardening at an early stage can be very rewarding and this is not lost on activity groups like Cubs and Brownies. They do, of course, have to be very sensitive to the safety of the children in their charge though. This is usually applied to background [...]
Recent stories in the news of a girl who died falling from a tree have highlighted the dangers involved in the traditional children’s pastime of climbing trees. Without wanting to wrap children in cotton wool it does make sense to assess the dangers as serious injuries can be sustained by [...]
Well, you're right, your neighbour has no right to spray weedkiller into your garden. There are few laws that specifically control this kind of behaviour so you have to fall back on the property based legal framework, as the garden is as much a part of your property as your [...]
One the main considerations that we try to get over in Safe Gardening is that people need to be made aware of the dangers in gardens but then make their own choice about the precautions that they need to take. Gardening would simply be no fun if safety measures made [...]
