Blagdon's listing photographs show the Clearview doing exactly what a leaf net is for: a brick-edged pond in clear water, then the same pond under a drift of fallen leaves with the fish still visible beneath. They also show the net lying on the water, which is what Blagdon's only published tensioning advice, written for its raised pools, tells you to lift it clear of. Three UK wildlife charities advise against netting a pond, and ARC names what else a fine net catches: grass snakes, frogs and hedgehogs.

Two stars because the end of the string was hiding; five stars because a sticker showed where it was. That is the spread on ANSIO's 101 m roll, and we read all 100 recent UK reviews to fill in the middle.

Which? puts a 32cm machine squarely in the small-lawn band. The RHS says the moss on a small lawn can be taken out with a spring-tined rake. VonHaus says small to medium on Amazon and medium on its own website, and its manual names no size at all. Here is how a small-lawn buyer should read all of that, alongside the eight UK reviews Amazon shows.

One buyer titled his review “Doesn’t Work on Wet Leaves.” and then gave the machine four stars. Einhell's own operating instructions rule wet leaves out before any reviewer gets a word in, which is how both of those things are true at once.

One owner is broadly satisfied with this shredder and another is not, and they agree on one thing: it is a different machine once the material has dried. Leave green stalks and leaves a fortnight to dry, says the first. Wait for autumn, says the one who gave up on their bushes after 45 minutes.

Order this cover once and it may be the best you have owned. Order the same listing again three years later and 26 of the last 100 UK buyers say what turns up is a thinner, shinier thing, and seven of them sent it straight back.

Seventy litres on the badge, a 60 x 35cm bed in the listing's own diagram. Here is what the MoverX folding wagon really swallows, and which buyers it leaves stranded in a field.

Nobody buys a hori hori for the sheath, and then they spend their reviews arguing about it: cheap nylon that will not survive a working environment, says one buyer with 40-odd hours on the blade; worth having precisely because the tool is so sharp, says another. The blade starts a second argument, over the word Razorsharp.

Fill one of these to the brim with wet hedge cuttings and you will not be lifting it into a hatchback. That is the interesting part of Singwow's best-selling 500L sacks: the fabric copes better than the buyer's back does.

Heavy clay is where cheap bulb planters bend, stick or simply stop. An all welded steel tube with a foot plate should be the answer, so why does one five-star buyer warn you off using it on dry ground?

Tetra's own listing admits the pond sticks recipe has changed. Most of the 100 most recent UK buyers never noticed, five did, and most of those five say their fish stopped eating. How to tell which camp your pond will fall into.

Rose prickles hook backwards, which is why they catch you pulling out of the bush rather than reaching in. These SAWANS gauntlets put goatskin on the palm and fingers and run the cuff well past the wrist. Here is what the small pool of reviews we could actually read says about that, and where it goes quiet.