Weeding is not hard work. It is low work. Twenty minutes down on your knees in a garden bed and the job stops being about the weeds and starts being about getting back up again. So you fetch a bucket to sit on, and then you have to stand up and move the bucket every half a metre. This garden stool on wheels takes that out of the day. You sit on it, you work the bed in front of you, and when you have cleared your arm's reach you push with a heel and roll on to the next section without ever getting up.

Why It Stands Out

• You move without standing up — two wide wheels mean a shove with one foot carries you along the row. That is the whole difference between this and an upturned bucket.
• The seat adjusts from 22 to 35 cm — low enough to reach soil level for weeding, high enough to sit comfortably while you pot up or prune. One stool, two working heights.
• 14.5 cm wide wheels — wide enough to roll over lawn and soft soil instead of cutting two trenches through it the way a narrow castor does.
• An iron frame — this is a rolling garden seat built to be sat on all season, not a folding camp chair pressed into garden work.
• 3.4 kg — light enough to carry out to the beds with one hand and hang in the shed when you are done.
• 46 cm long and no wider than the seat — a low garden stool that fits down a path between raised beds instead of straddling your plants.
• A padded handle at the back — something to hold when you lower yourself onto it and something to grab when you carry it.

Where to Use It

• Down the edge of a garden bed, weeding — the job it was made for, and the reason a weeding stool beats kneeling.
• Alongside a raised bed, where the top of the bed lands near seat height and you are working level instead of bent over.
• In the veggie patch at planting out time, moving seedling by seedling along the row.
• On the lawn beside a border, deadheading or cutting back, with the whole bed in reach from one spot.
• At the potting bench or on the shed floor, where a garden work seat is useful any time a job takes longer than it looked.
• On a paved path or driveway for pulling weeds out of the cracks, where the wheels roll easiest of all.
• Anywhere a job is long and low — this is a mobile garden seat first and a stool second.

How It Works

1. Two wheels carry the whole frame — the seat sits over them, so your weight is already on the rolling part and a push with one foot moves you.
2. The seat post sets the height — it adjusts through a 22 to 35 cm range and locks where you leave it.
3. The iron frame takes the load — the support rack runs the full 46 cm length and ties the two wheels together, which is what stops the whole thing tipping as you lean out over a bed.
4. The padded loop at the back gives you something solid to take hold of as you sit down and as you get up.

How to Set It Up

1. Bolt it together. Two wheels, the stool, the support rack and the rear loop, joined with the two screws and two nuts supplied. A few minutes with a spanner.
2. Set your height before you go out. Sit on it indoors first and find the setting where your hands reach the ground without you folding forward.
3. Nip the nuts up properly once the height is set. A seat that works loose is one that creaks and wanders.
4. Start at one end of the bed and work across your arm's reach before you move. Clearing a full arc and then rolling beats shuffling constantly.
5. Push off with a heel, not by pulling on the plants or the bed edge.
Tip: set the seat a notch lower than feels right the first time out. Almost everyone sets a rolling garden stool too high, then spends the afternoon leaning down to the soil instead of sitting over it, and that is what makes the job tiring rather than the weeding.

NB: this rolls on two wide wheels, so it is at its best on lawn, a path, firm soil or a shed floor. In deep loose mulch or wet dug ground it will want a firmer line to run along — the edge of the bed or the path beside it. Wheels this wide are what let it cross grass without marking it. The frame is iron, so a quick wipe and a dry shed is what keeps it looking new through an Australian summer.

Care and Maintenance

• Hose the soil off the wheels after a wet-weather session and let them dry before it goes away.
• Store it under cover. Iron left out through storm season and coastal salt air will spot, and a shed wall hook costs nothing.
• Check the nuts every few weeks. Rolling over rough ground works fasteners loose on anything bolted together.
• Rinse the seat. The woven top sheds dirt with a hose and dries in minutes in the sun.

Specifications

What's Included

• 1 × Stool
• 1 × Support rack
• 1 × Rear padded loop
• 2 × Wheels
• 2 × Screws
• 2 × Nuts