Ditching power tools made me a happier gardener

Hedge trimmers, shredders and chainsaws are all meant to make gardening easier, but when Julian Rollins switched to hand tools, he discovered the joys of a slow and steady approachPutting weekend papers into the recycling bin, an advert caught my eye. Among a tumble of sections of The Guardian and another, rival, publication, was a motoring section. Its back page was given over to an ad for gardening gadgets; strimmers, leaf-blowers and mowers, all beefed-up and top-of-the-range, presumably sele