Garden gear
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Gardening equipment is compared here on the specifications its manufacturer publishes, and every page says where each number came from. Nothing on this site is described as tested, because no testing happens here. That rules out a whole class of question - how a pair of secateurs feels after an hour of pruning, whether a grow light still works in its third winter - and those questions are better answered by somebody who has actually done it. What published specifications can settle is the mistake people make most often, which is buying something that cannot physically do the job: a light too weak for the plant, a pot too small for the root ball, a meter that measures the wrong thing.
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Each page explains what matters in that category, what the published numbers actually mean, and where the trade-offs sit. Light output is a good example: manufacturers quote it in watts, in lumens or as PPFD, and only the last of those tells you whether a plant will grow under it. Pot size is another, quoted as a diameter in inches, which says nothing about how much compost the pot holds or how often it will dry out. Where a manufacturer publishes no figure at all, the page says so and leaves the cell empty rather than filling it with an estimate. Every specification is recorded with the date it was read, because manufacturers revise them quietly and a number with no date behind it cannot be checked. Where we link a retailer we may earn a commission if you buy something. That never decides which products appear on a page, how they are ordered, or what is said about them, and no merchant sees a page before it goes live. The affiliate disclosure sets out the arrangement in full, and any page carrying such a link says so at the top.