Wooden Shelf Wall Unit - A stylish and practical rustic wooden shelf unit with 9 storage cubbies, easily fixes onto a wall or sits comfortably on a workbench or table. It has taken pride of place in the potting shed at Stephanie's Kitchen Garden where it is being used as an attractive seed organiser. It is also ideal for storing all your other gardening bits and bobs that are easy to misplace such as string, labels, and much more...

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Available from mid January 2012

The Sophie Conran Compost Scoop is one of those rare garden tools which manages to blend style with performance and you can say goodbye to clearing up mess after greenhouse potting sessions with this FSC beechwood handled mirror polished stainless steel scoop.

All the quality gardening tools in the Sophie Conran range make wonderful gift ideas and we're expecting this 28cm long by 7cm wide compost scoop to slip off our shelves just as easily as compost from the scoop, straight into your pots and not over the floor. You'll be able to make the most of valuable home made compost and leaf mould and with solid brass ferrules keeping the stainless steel, wipe clean scoop head firmly in place, your only problem will be parting with the presentation boxed compost scoop!

The handy Dual Display Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer with Alarm will give you all the temperature-based data you'll need from both inside and outside the greenhouse to keep your plants safe - and with the additional bonus of a low and high temperature alarm alert, you can put in place heaters or ventilation to ensure plants never dry out or suffer frost damage again!

The indoor/outdoor thermometer has a host of features; an easy-to-read digital display screen measures 36mm wide by 16mm high; flip between celcius and farenheit readings and set the alarm with simple push button controls and the wide temperature range (-20°C to +70°C indoor and -50°C to +70°C outdoor) will cope with all the extremes of British weather. A dual display reveals the current indoor and outdoor temperature simultaneously by way of a built in thermostat and probe respectively and the max/min memory function allows you to find out what happened temperature-wise during the day or night in your absence. The alarm function warns if a minimum or maximum temperature of your choice has been reached or exceeded, and with full instructions and 1 x AAA battery included, you'll take complete climate control of your greenhouse or potting shed in no time!

This very helpful Garden Seed Organiser allows you to regain control of your potting shed and file your seed packets under the month you intend sowing them - no more rummaging around the shed or greenhouse looking for half-used packets year after year!

The seed organiser consists of a robust plastic frame featuring 12 pockets and corresponding monthly panels for secure and accurate seed packet storage and there's a tray along the bottom for keeping the marking pencil, 10 plant marking labels and plastic dibber included in the kit to hand too. Expect to store up to 12 packets of seeds in each monthly pocket and if you find you've got a few barren sowing months, the pockets can be utilised to house reminders and plans of other gardening projects.

The Garden Seed Organiser measures 51cm wide, is 68.5cm wide and 7.5cm deep (20" x 27" x 3"), is supplied with two screws for mounting to a potting shed wall and should be placed out of direct sunlight to protect both the organiser and the seeds.

These Pot Brushes are perfect for scrubbing and removing ground-on dirt, old soil and algae which regularly afflict garden and plant pots, spoiling their look and housing all manner of garden pests and soil-borne diseases. The handles of the pot cleaning brushes are made from rubber wood, a waste product of the rubber industry so they can add eco-friendly to their bulging CV - which also includes well designed, hard wearing, densely-packed bristles and an ideal shape for reaching all edges of decorative and garden pots. The perfect addition to any tool or potting shed or greenhouse, measures 10cm in diameter and stands 24cm in height (that's 4" x 9½").

Ultra-reliable, this Square Seed Tray Tamper is an essential piece of potting shed and greenhouse equipment and is the very thing for giving seeds a firm germination bed in seed trays of all sizes.

The 8cm square compost tamper features a comfortable handle and is entirely hand crafted out of FSC beech wood, making it the perfect implement environmentally to help give life to to new seeds whilst safeguarding the planet's tree population at the same time - it may be a square soil tamper but it's part of the circle of life!

The Tie and Twine Set contains all the gardener with flowering or vegetable plants which require regular tying-in needs, all safely housed in a clip-top, hinged and sectioned plastic box.

The 23cm x 11cm box is home to tying essentials such as string, adjustable rubber plant ties, a tree tie and wire plant rings, accompanied by some very handy wooden labels, a marking pencil, paper/wire plant ties and rubber cane toppers and fixers - pretty much everything any gardener will need! A smaller version of the Tie and Twine Set - in the shape of the Gardener's Tidy Set - is also available and for gardeners and growers with even more demanding plants, the Essential Gardener's Organiser Set should fit the bill.

The Essential Gardener's Organiser Set is the largest in the gardener's trilogy of handy little kits and if you've plenty of vegetable or ornamental plants to tend, then this garden set is for you.

Packed full of those can't-do-without garden items such as labels (long and short), quality string and adjustable plant and tree ties and even a thermometer - not to mention the screw-shut seed saving pots - the Essential Gardener's Organiser Set is worthy of it's name and makes an ideal gift or present for a gardening loved one. The comprehensive range of gardening essentials are neatly housed in a compartmentised plastic box, complete with a hinged lid and heavy duty safety clasps to keep the contents safe, meaning you'll have everything organised and to hand down the allotment or in the potting shed. The Essential Gardener's Organiser Set measures 27cm x 17.5cm and if this kit is over spec for your garden operations, give the two smaller versions we supply - the Tie and Twine Set and the Gardener's Tidy Set a try!

These stylish wooden Blackboard Plant Label Clips can be instantly attached to any bamboo cane or stick to bring an clearly legible plant label up to a comfortable reading height and avoid your plant labelling system being obscured by rain splashes, soil and even plant growth.

Each pack of labels includes 5 (3 x small and 2 x large) blackboard clips, a piece of chalk for temporary labelling and an oil-based marking pencil for accurate, waterproof identification of vegetables, perennial plants and shrubs. Each blackboard label has a spring loaded wooden peg mounted to the rear for simple fixing to your choice of support; small Blackboard Plant Label Clips measure 6.7cm wide x 4.5cm deep (2½" x 1½") whilst the larger versions are 11cm (4½") wide x 9cm (3½") deep.

There's a danger these spectacular slate marking labels will overshadow your border plants and shrubs and you can almost picture each 19.5cm long x 3cm wide label being hewn out of a Welsh hillside!

Each of the six dark slate plant labels are marked with a grey slate marking stick included in the kit and don't worry if you make a labelling mistake or your plants die - you can literally wipe the slate clean! Ideal for use in a prominent position or at the front of beds, the Slate Markers and Engraver make a great gift idea for any gardener.

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Propagate the old fashioned way with this stylish Cuttings Tube Set and raise plants from cuttings in the eight glass phials, securely held in position by the cast iron frame.

A wonderful present for any green-fingered friend or relative, the cuttings set will also help you save a fortune on new plants as shoots and cuttings placed in water in the 7cm deep by 1.7cm diameter glasses will soon develop roots and can then be planted up or outside into beds and borders, providing you with new herbaceous plants and even vegetables in only a week or two. Suitable for propagating offsets, soft cuttings and even rooting unwanted tomato sideshoots, the Cuttings Tube Set is sure to be a real potting shed favourite. Decorative antique-finished frame measures 19cm in length, is 9.5cm wide and stands 8cm in height.

Keep bulbs dry and seeds fresh and ready for propagation with this appealing powdercoated steel Retro style Seed Box complete with a handy scoop that conveniently hooks onto the side handles for storage.

Store seeds conveniently and safely using the monthly dividers in this stylish Seed Packet Organiser tin. Five seed storage envelopes and pencil are included.

This 3 in 1 Paper Potter is a marvellous accessory for the greenhouse, allowing you to recycle newspaper and make biodegradeable seedling pots in 3 different sizes. Simply plant the seedlings and pot into the ground when ready to plant out in the garden and the roots will grow through as the pot disintegrates in the soil 3cm/1.25”, 4.75cm/1.75” and 6cm/2.5” diameter pot sizes

This slim-line, hand held Digital Plant Labeller has an 8 character LCD Display, a simple to use keyboard and is supplied with 8 metres of rain proof and frost resistant tape - a must-have accessory for creating labels for the home and garden.

The Magic Seeder seed dispenser is designed especially for planting small flower and vegetable seeds, ideal for pots and plug trays - thumb pressure control for accurate planting.

The Pro-Seeder offers the simplicity, performance and precision of its bigger brothers - using the same principle as commercial seeding machines, the Pro-Seeder offers the gardener a fast, easy, accurate way to sow even the tiniest of flower seeds, one at a time.

This Seed and Plant Spacing Rule is the perfect accessory for the gardener, featuring measured sowing holes for seeds with metric and imperial increments, and a printed vegetable spacing guide as an aid to planting. Don't leave your spacing to chance. Makes the perfect practical gift.

The Paper Potter is a novel, attractive and very effective way of making your own biodegradable seedling pots out of old newspaper; once you've got the knack (and it's very easy to pick up!) of rolling and pressing the paper into shape, you'll never want or need to buy another pot again!

Paper Potters are available in two sizes; the smaller model measures 12.5cm (5") in height and forms paper pots with a 5cm (2") diameter and the larger pot former is 16cm high (6") and the pots it makes - ideal for larger seedlings - measure 9cm (3½") across.

The quirky paper pot maker does produce very useable results though as you can simply plant the seedlings and pot into the ground when ready to plant out in the garden and the roots will grow through as the pot disintegrates in the soil - no root disturbance, no transplant shock and the paper helps keep the compost inside moist too!

Once you've made your paper pots and filled them, the double-ended, FSC oak constructed Paper Patter will help firm the compost whichever size potter you have used and supplied complete with instructions, the Paper Potters and Patter make an excellent gift or present for the gardener!

A handy little tool for sowing. Made from yew.

Hand turned from 'Jekyll' yew this tamper is ideal for seed preparation.

The Windowsill Greenhouse is a reliable and high performing seed-starting kit. It features a unique ‘double tray drainage’ system (including black growing trays and a green drip tray) whilst the shatterproof PVC stabilises the temperature and retains moisture to encourage quicker germination.

This strong, metal cased soil thermometer is ideal for indoor or outdoor use, whether you are testing soil, the inner core of compost, mushrooms, heated seed beds or plant rearing.