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Most of us picture a perfect garden as neat, trimmed, and cleared of every fallen leaf by the time winter arrives.

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Leaf blowers aren't just futile and polluting — they're actively bad for the health of your garden, not to mention your mental wellbeing. Time to reach for the rake, says Isabel Bannerman.

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