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  • #1

    Favourite gardening tool

    Hello all,

    For our October Allotment Inspiration pages, I'd like to know:
    If you could choose only one tool to use on the plot, what would it be?

    Let me know your ideas!

    Sian
    Last edited by Sian Bunney; 03-08-2016, 02:05 PM.
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    A three-pronged Cultiweeder on a long handle, that can be flipped over to become a hoe.
    I use it to rake, weed, hoe, cut a seed drill and backfill, prise out roots, pull down branches and scratch my back.........well, maybe not the latter, but it is very versatile
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    • #3
      I probably don't qualify as I don't have an allotment, although I do look after my friend's 3mx4m vegetable patch as well as my own garden. My most used tool in both places would have to be my hand fork, which I couldn't do without. Its so much more versatile and accurate than a trowel.

      I would struggle badly without my secateurs though.
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      • #4
        My most used tool this year has been my long handled dibber. Basically it's an old spade handle with a length of tapered wood inserted, it's been a gods gift for planting Leeks.
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        • #5
          Hmmmmmm, just one is tricky, on balance probably one of the penknives that Mrs.BB has given me as presents, they are in the same draw so I take the one appropriate for the task in hand
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          • #6
            The thing I reach for most is an old tablespoon, it's handy for putting compost in loo rolls, the handles a good dibber especially when potting on.
            Location....East Midlands.

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            • #7
              My hands ...I start with a tool but end up using my hands
              Northern England.

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              • #8
                My Japanese weeding tool

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                • #9
                  A simple small hand fork, useful to prize out weeds, dig up roots, harvest and aerate. I can't use long handles as I'm too clumsy and damage plants unless I'm close up!

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                    • #11
                      A long handled hand fork, great for keeping the soil loose between plants and weeding
                      it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.

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                      • #12
                        The one I use most is a hand fork that has slowly curved to fit my digging action. But can't live without Big spade & fork, folding hand saw, secateurs, loppers, & so many more. An old fashioned butter knife is also useful....
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                        • #13
                          Hard to say - today it was the crowbar closely followed by the bolt cutters.

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                          • #14
                            Poundshop gardening gloves!

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                            • #15
                              ....... a dessert spoon in GH (saves getting too much compost all over the potting bench when filling smaller sized pots etc...)
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