Hi there, I have excellent English literacy skills, being a former journalist, also a wide ranging general knowledge and extensive library. Below is an example of my recent work, created not rewritten, for another employer in US English:
Saving Money With Garden Shredders
Gardening can be one of life’s greatest pleasures, especially when your flower beds are filled with healthy, brightly-colored blooms, your vegetables are growing big and juicy and your trees and shrubs are leafy and attractive. The trouble is that, like many hobbies, gardening can be expensive. Plant foods cost money, weedkillers aren’t free, composts and mulches all have a price tag.
Wise and experienced gardeners know they can reduce costs by using the garden’s own resources carefully, and among the tools which will help you with this task are garden shredders, which are available in a range of makes and sizes. True, they are an expensive investment, but if you are on a budget they don’t even have to be purchased, but can be hired for the day from the store.
Garden shredders will take a large, unsightly heap of garden waste, process it and turn it into a much smaller volume of useful materials that can be used around the garden, saving you dollars along the way. Those twigs cut from the front hedge could be turned into a hard-working medium that will not only mulch your flowers and shrubs, helping them retain moisture and suppressing weeds, but will slowly rot down to feed and enrich the soil. Even thick woody branches can be turned into fine chips decorative enough to lay on your flower beds, and don’t forget the saving that will result from not needing to pay someone to take away this garden trash.
Shredding machines range from light electrical machines that can cope with woody weeds and small twigs, to large gasoline-powered chippers that can take large branches or even young trees, belching them out afterwards as quite fine chippings. These larger ones can even be less messy, as the material is thrown in whole, with no need for chopping up beforehand with secateurs or saw. Though the process is noisy, the results are good, and careful sorting of the waste materials before processing, perhaps into soft plant matter and thicker woody material, can produce composts and mulches of any composition you require, and they certainly smell sweeter than traditional manures.