The journal

Notes

Practical gardening writing from the people who choose the tools at Teskis. Two published articles on sharpening pruning shears and watering well. Monthly letter.

A notebook and pencil beside a pair of secateurs and a fallen leaf

Notes is where we write down what we learn while choosing what to sell. Every product on this site is picked by someone who used it first, in a real garden, for long enough to know how it behaves in February as well as June. Notes is the part of that work that does not fit on a product page.

The writing here is practical. It tells you how to do a job, what the job needs, and how long it takes. Where a measurement matters we give the measurement. Where a technique fails we say so. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored placements and no roundups of twelve near-identical products written to fill a page. Teskis stocks one tested option per job, so there is nothing to compare and nothing to sell you inside an article.

What you will find here

Three kinds of writing, roughly:

  • Maintenance. How to keep a tool working — sharpening, cleaning, storage, the small annual jobs that decide whether a pair of shears lasts three years or fifteen.
  • Method. How to do a garden task properly. Watering, pruning timing, soil preparation, lawn care through the seasons.
  • Selection. Why we chose a particular tool, what we rejected, and what the trade-offs were. This is the least flattering kind of writing and usually the most useful.

Articles are written by the buying team, not by an agency. If we get something wrong, we correct it on the page and say what changed rather than quietly editing it.

Published so far

Two articles is not many. We would rather publish one piece a month that we have tested than four a week that we have not. The list above will grow slowly and stay honest.

If an article makes you want a tool

Everything we write about is something we stock, because we only stock things we use. Ordering is by email: send the list and the delivery address to support@teskis.com and someone replies with the price, normally inside one working day. Delivery is free on every order, with no minimum spend and no threshold, and orders are dispatched as quickly as we can, usually within one to two working days. Payment is cash, handed to the driver at the door, so nothing is paid before the parcel arrives. If a tool turns out to be wrong for your garden, you have thirty days to send it back — used or unused, provided we can inspect it. If it arrives faulty, damaged or not what you ordered, we pay the return postage.

That backing exists so you can act on an article without much risk. Ask for the shears, pay the driver when they arrive, try the sharpening method, and if the tool does not suit your hands, return it. Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing: you can turn the parcel away at the door at no cost.

The monthly letter

New articles go out in a letter once a month. One email, sent when there is something worth sending — the month’s piece, any correction we have made to an older one, and the seasonal job that is due next. Nothing else. No daily offers, no countdown timers, no chasing you about a quote you decided not to take.

If you have a question about a tool or a technique, write to support@teskis.com. We answer Monday to Saturday, 9–6 CET, and questions that come up more than once tend to become the next article.

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