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  • #1

    Garden tool quiz

    In looking for Ian White's 2-pronged fork I stumbled across a website which hires old garden tools as props.
    They have a section of old garden...stuff...which they're not sure what it is. I immediately thought to myself, "I know a collection of old gardening relics and I bet some of them know what these are!"

    Tool Quiz

    Anyone got any ideas?
    Last edited by OllieMartin; 02-03-2010, 04:05 PM.
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  • #2
    I think the terracotta flask is for forcing rhubarb
    "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln

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    • #3
      Those are also interesting Ollie!

      We often see wonderful wooden farm implements for sale over here- I love seeing what the farmers- and locals- used everyday out and about on their farms or in the potagers.
      Living history- fantastic!
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

      Location....Normandy France

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      • #4
        Originally posted by T8Ter View Post
        I think the terracotta flask is for forcing rhubarb
        Agreed, looks like that to me too and the narrow glass cloches look like cucumber straighteners to me, remember them being on a quiz show years ago, you put the baby cucumbers in them and the glass forces them to stay straight as they grow.

        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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        • #5
          Those are some snazzy glass plant labels there!
          Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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          • #6
            I've seen those little glass cloches on Victorian Kitchen Garden. They're for shaping cucumbers IIRC.
            Last edited by pdblake; 02-03-2010, 05:18 PM.
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            • #7
              I think the terracotta tube is a land drain pipe

              as on here..

              http://www.ribaproductselector.com/D...919792.pdf?ac=

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              • #8
                The oblong tin container is a VASCULUM
                It is for collecting plant/botannical specimens on field trips so they are not crushed or damaged while you carry them back for study, propogating or whatever
                We were using these when I studied A level biology in 1968 & 1969

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                • #9
                  Those basket thingies could be for forcing seakale? Or chicory/chicons.

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                  • #10
                    I think the basket could be for bees?
                    Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                    • #11
                      For those ones that you know, did you let them know what you thought they were?
                      Would be interesting to see if the list is reduced to nothing!
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                      RedThorn - Chief Interrobang Officer
                      Pumpkin Becki - Head of Dremel Multi-Tool Sales & Marketing and Management Support
                      Jeanied - Olliecentric Eulogy Minister
                      piskieinboots - Ambassador of 2-word Media Reviews

                      WikiGardener a subsidiary of Ollietopia Inc.

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                      • #12
                        spade with a hole think its for digging up pond plants
                        clay tubes land drains

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