Poll
Question:
Fork, Spade, Rake, Hoe or Other (& if other, post what it is)
Option 1: Fork
votes: 33
Option 2: Spade
votes: 6
Option 3: Rake
votes: 0
Option 4: Hoe
votes: 9
Option 5: Other
votes: 15
So, what's the biggest tool in your life? Mine is the Garden Fork.
Mine's the fork as well............although till I actually read your post I thought I was in the Watershed 8) ;D ;D
lol@ star
I voted other, I wouldnt be without my azada
lbb
Speedweeder. It looks like a hook with a handle but it grubs out the weeds and also has many other uses. Very efficient, cheap and used (and sold) in Helligan and other National Trust places.
for borders & in between rows....is it a trowel? Is it a rake? No, it's a trake!
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/trake.html
had it 4yrs and love it. Beautifully balanced and graded depths on the trowel for planting.
Ohhhhh Ollie, like Star thought HMMM watershed Hahaha, mine is me trowel come digger!!.
My barbie spade - no its not pink, but all the men call my border spade a barbie spade because it is smaller.
I can still shovel the horse muck with the best of them, though :D
I voted other - my hand fork. Lost it this morning and found it in one of the daleks, I must have put it in there. I think all hand tools should be bright colours, not green or brown.
My fork and spade. An elderly neighbour RIP. gave them to me. They are both which he called Ladies tools. So unless I can find a man (am I kidding) to use my original fork and spade they are now redundant.
The best 'tool' I have is a Shredder.
My Grandads old hoe and sharpening stone - proper long handle and keeps really sharp edge, makes me feel good to use it ;D
My mattock...so i voted for other.
a teaspoon - for potting on small seedlings (if I lose it I feel lost) ;D but apart from that it would have to be a trowel
Definitely my fork- wouldn't be without it!
Sorry but another one who thought it was a watershedder :P :-* mines my fork, I better go back, I forgot to vote. ;D ;D ;D
It has to be a border fork for me. I hardly ever use a spade, bit too heavy for me.
Quote from: Hyacinth on November 20, 2008, 20:53:47
for borders & in between rows....is it a trowel? Is it a rake? No, it's a trake!
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/trake.html
had it 4yrs and love it. Beautifully balanced and graded depths on the trowel for planting.
Loks good- Where can I get one?
My bronze trowel. http://www.implementations.co.uk/ perfect trowel, and slugs don't like copper. ;)
My right angled fork (azada)...versatile and brilliant at clearing bramble stumps and couch grass. And digging! ;D
My flask. ;D
Quote from: caroline7758 on November 24, 2008, 15:24:45
Quote from: Hyacinth on November 20, 2008, 20:53:47
for borders & in between rows....is it a trowel? Is it a rake? No, it's a trake!
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/trake.html
had it 4yrs and love it. Beautifully balanced and graded depths on the trowel for planting.
Loks good- Where can I get one?
I'm not sure where in the UK, but I'd imagine they're on sale over here now :-\...I had mine gifted to me 4yrs ago when, I think, they were quite new in the US.
my wife ;D
Oh, definitely, my Vitrinox - given to me by my American cousin before his death.
Think of him a dozen times a day. Always there. No better memorial.
Only 2 of 6 functions shown.
Howard Gem. Not a prayer without it........ ::)
My ratchet secateurs. I do like a bit of nice therapeutic pruning... :D
And just as well, as I had about 30 ft of very overgrown old russian vine to prune back, in my new garden. Nearly there...
Emaggie where did you say you get that super tool of yours.Weeds are big in Maidenhead
paint scraper to clean my spade
Got to be my hands !!!
can' do a thing without them ;D
I voted other as my favourite tool after all the winter diggings done is my 3 pronged cultivator. The prongs have very wide blades about 1" wide and a long handle.With a little efoort the plot can be well and truely worked quite quickly. Guaranteed to get a Robin, bobin' about.
Got to be my hoe. No matter what jobs I have to do, I always make sure I have a 15-20 minute hoe around my plots.
Quote from: Maidenheadtaff on November 30, 2008, 21:03:29
Emaggie where did you say you get that super tool of yours.Weeds are big in Maidenhead
Sold in mostly National Trust properties I think Maideheadtaff. Give it a Google,
Speedweeder. ;)