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What garden tool do you use the most? I'm forever carrying a car load of long handle tools and tossing them out onto the lottie and finding that I am mostly using a hoe >:( I just know that if I leave one long handle tool behind I will need it. ::)

I suppose those screw on tools that require only one handle make a lot of sense ??? Here's a piccy of the type of hoe I use the most as I have rock hard clay soil and beat the hell out of those clods with it. >:( What is your most used tool ??? (keep it clean) ;D

I would like a hoe!  My hoe has bent and is now useless unless I can beat it back into shape.  My most used tool at the mo has to be my fork as I am mostly using it to fork up manure :)

I'll be mostly using a long-handled fork at the moment and a rake as I'm trying to dig deep and drag out loads of mare's tail - the curse of our site!  :(

Mr W has a much loved "diamond shovel" which we inherited in the shed when we took over the lottie long, long ago - it's very big and very heavy but boy does it cut thru the ground!
Me, I swear by a very narrow, pointy Wilkinsons trowel with a stainless steel "digging bit" which was picked up in a sale for £1.

On reading the original post not sure the diamond shovel is Mr W's most used - that would probably be the kneelers when constantly weeding!!

I don't have a most used, but several all used about the same amount.  Can't get on with hoes, have tried and now have 6 cluttering up my shed!  Mine would be a lovely dumpy border fork, my dads old spade, a rake and a hand trowel.

;D There you go then Emma, your soil sounds like it's soft and squidgy, (years of tilling no doubt) where as mine may need additives of various kinds to break it up. Green with envy :'(

My home made onion hoe gets most use

Probably my trowel. Although I have about five to choose from (everyone gives them to me!)

Or maybe my trusty old tin pail!

Hmm toughie this one....

I suppose i have 3 that i use the most - spade, trowel and a border fork. Not sure which one of those i use the most though. ???

I also use a rake and hand fork quite a bit too.

I am not a hoe person though.

Quote from: Roy Bham UK on May 05, 2005, 21:17:59
What is your most used tool ??? (keep it clean) ;D

How can it be my most used AND kept clean??  ;) ;D

Quote from: maz on May 06, 2005, 11:25:22

Quote from: Roy Bham UK on May 05, 2005, 21:17:59
What is your most used tool ??? (keep it clean) ;D

How can it be my most used AND kept clean??  ;) ;D

Quite, though i dont think thats what Roy meant maz

You can tell from my tools which ones I dont use much. They're the clean ones!   :D ;) ;D

I use my adzada thingy.  Brill for digging spud trenches, earthing up, bashing clumpy bits - all sorts.  Also my poundland hand held 'slug dispatcher'.  It's a bit like the photo above but it has 3 prongs the other side if that makes sense.  Apart from killing the slimey ones it's as good as any trowell.

Fork, digging hoe, three-pronged cultivator or hive tool depending when you ask me!

Depends on the time of year, earlier on it would have been the long handled spade, now it's split between the dutch hoe (I turn it on it's side to wack the clods) and the scythe as I'm mowing regularly to try to kill off the nettles by the apple trees.

Jeremy

Come to think of it -that's probably a lie, it's the Leatherman multi-gadget thingy I got as a leaving present, pen-knife (cutting twine, dandelions in lawn &c.) pliers for wiring up the fence where I've put the scythe/shears through it, &c.