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    What's your favourite hand tool.? My favourite is one I inherited when I got my plot. It's a little like a less posh version of
    https://www.quickcrop.co.uk/product/canterbury-fork-hoe
    and is great for the initial breaking up and weeding. Think I probably work quicker with it than with a Rotavator. Much quicker than a fork for example. Second favourite is my sledgehammer, but that's more of a fun thing...
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    This is my favourite tool:

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    • #3
      My hands
      Northern England.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Containergardener View Post
        My hands
        I was going to say that!

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        • #5
          My felco secateurs, a day without them would be pants!

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          • #6
            Mine's a multi-change® Cultiweeder 10cm on a long handle.

            I can rake, hoe, cut a drill, lever out roots, break up clods and.............there must be more?
            I have a smaller version of it too for more delicate hacking

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            • #7
              This is my latest favourite hand tool:

              https://www.quickcrop.co.uk/product/...ble-headed-hoe

              Thin hoe head for getting in between roes for weeding, forky end (technical term there!) for gathering up the bits. Long, lightweight handle, so easy to manage and no bending down. Mr Snoop sharpened the blade a while back, so it's very effective too.

              That said, my favourite hand tool changes depending on the job I'm doing. This weekend, it'll be a dibber, then a trowel. A few weeks back it was a tool I have for planting out onion seedlings.

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              • #8
                Small hand fork, use it for almost all my weeding

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                • #9
                  Hmm, yes I was going with either small hand fork or my lovely smooth compost scoop, which feels almost seductive when scooping and filling all those pots ( I really need to get out more .......)
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                  • #10
                    Nope...you are not going to trick me into saying a screw pull bottle opener!

                    Mine is a good quality hand trowel which doesn't bend under force!
                    Not found one yet!

                    I have come to realise though that plastic handled ones always seem to have a sharp bit somewhere which will cause a blister...as do those silly leather hang up tags drilled through a wooded handle.
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                    Location....Normandy France

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by SusieG View Post
                      Hmm, yes I was going with either small hand fork or my lovely smooth compost scoop, which feels almost seductive when scooping and filling all those pots ( I really need to get out more .......)
                      Definitely

                      Mine is probably my Sneeboer hand trowel
                      Last edited by Greenleaves; 19-05-2016, 06:47 AM.

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                      • #12


                        Wolf Soil Miller Head they are expensive but so good to use &



                        A Patio Weeder, Its my hand tool of choice and I use it for mixing compost/cori/ fertilizer, weeding, breaking up compost in a bucket, lifting paving slabs, weeding paving slabs etc.
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                        • #13
                          Funnily enough Edward Scissorhands comes to mind when I read this thread.


                          I think it's going to be one of those days peeps
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                          Location....Normandy France

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                          • #14
                            Mines my trusty dessert spoon its perfect for filling loo rolls with compost without making a big mess. then the handle's good for lifting out seedlings. I've got other tools but I seem to reach for the spoon a fair bit.
                            Location....East Midlands.

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                            • #15
                              Mine is an ancient cultivator tool found in Mum's shed. It's a foot-long wooden handle with a home-made head made of three six-inch nails bent at 90 degrees and set as a claw. Perfect for breaking up clay clods and raking out weed roots.

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