Clear the work. Keep the garden.

It started with a skip full of dead tools.

The spring the world stood still, everyone rediscovered their garden. We did too — and while clearing out a family shed in the East Midlands, we made a small, embarrassing discovery: three broken strimmers, two dead pressure washers, and a drawer full of chargers that no longer charged anything. Years of "bargains", none of which had survived more than a couple of summers.

We did the maths on that skip. Hundreds of pounds spent — more than one properly built tool would ever have cost. And we knew our shed wasn't the exception. It was the rule, repeated in a million gardens across the country.

Buy cheap, buy twice. Buy right, buy once. That skip became our business plan.

A rented lock-up, a folding table, and a lot of ruined Saturdays.

RYDA didn't start in a boardroom. It started in a rented lock-up with a folding table, a kettle, and a growing pile of sample tools we ordered, tested, and — mostly — rejected. Batteries that quit halfway down the lawn. Grips that pinched. Manuals written in riddles.

Our test bench was never a showroom: it was our own gardens and the gardens of anyone who'd let us in. Wet hedges in October. Cracked patios. The awkward strip of grass beside the fence that every tool pretends doesn't exist. If a tool couldn't handle a real British weekend, it didn't get a second one.

The first tool that survived everything we threw at it became the ancestor of the G-series. People started asking where we got it. Then their neighbours asked. That's when we understood we weren't just solving our own problem.

Six years on, the rule hasn't changed.

Today RYDA serves gardeners all over the UK, with a warehouse instead of a lock-up and a proper test process instead of borrowed gardens. But every product still has to answer the same question we asked in 2020: would we use this in our own garden, every weekend, without excuses?

It's why our range is still short — we say no to far more products than we say yes to. And it's why we back every tool with a 90-day guarantee: if it can't survive three months of real weekends, it doesn't deserve a place in your shed.