What Are Garden Vacuums?
A garden vacuum works on the same principal as a domestic vacuum cleaner, sucking up debris in its path and like domestic vacuum cleaners, they come with a debris collection bag attached at the rear of at the vacuum which enables the gardener to collect leaves and easily dispose of them or transport them to a compost heap to make leaf mulch.
Most handheld garden vacuums can also be switch to a blowing setting, and as such is ideal for removing grass clippings and small garden debris over the remaining year. The design which includes a long, narrow sucking / blowing funnel, makes it ideal for directing into enclosed, awkward spaces such as behind sheds and gaps between walls to collect fallen debris that would otherwise build up and cause problems with gutters and drains or creating fire hazards. Some handheld garden vacuums also come with built in blades which shred the leaves enabling more debris to be held in the collection bag and therefore less trips to the compost bin.
A larger, push along garden vacuum, is more suitable to large leaves covered areas. Similar in both size and shape to a garden lawn mower, it sucks up and collects the leaves as they are pushed over the top of them and generally has a powerful enough suction to vacuum up damp leaves, ideal for the autumn and winter months that can experience prolonged periods of rain. With a larger collection bag than handheld vacuum machines, a greater area of ground can be covered in one go, before the bag needs to be emptied out. Generally petrol powered, it also does not limit the gardener to the distance from a power source, yet it can work like an electric handheld machine would.
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