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    Favourite tool?

    Hope this is ok in this bit of the forum...

    I was wondering what's your favourite garden tool? What's the one item that never strays too far from your grasp? What do you use it for?

    Mine is this:



    I use it for just about every little weeding & tidying job going - it's invaluable. I got it from the Gardener's World show at the NEC last year, for considerably less than currently advertised on their website.

    So, what else do I need to think about buying?

    MBE
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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    I just got one of those through the post this morning; it's off to the lottie with me later.

    I heart our Swoe.

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    • #3
      My Swi$$ @rmy Knife - wouldn't be without it!

      For work purposes, it has to be my hand fork, F€lcos and kneeling pad!
      All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
      Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
        I just got one of those through the post this morning; it's off to the lottie with me later.

        I heart our Swoe.
        You'll love it.

        And I've just learnt what a swoe is.
        Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
        By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
        While better men than we go out and start their working lives
        At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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        • #5
          Mine is my border fork. Himself bought it for me when I got my first allotment. It was a Christmas present and was carefully wrapped, each tine separately, in Christmas paper. He handed it to me and asked if I could tell what it was! I use it most days - it's brilliant and is the right size and weight for me to dig for ages without aches and pains.
          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

          www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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          • #6
            mine are my hoe and boarder fork

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            • #7
              Mine is my heart shaped long handled spade. I've always wanted one and when I noticed them a few months back at a very cheap rate in the local Netto's I just had to have one!
              I've never regretted it and hardly have it out of my hands at the lottie!
              My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
              to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

              Diversify & prosper


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              • #8
                My dutch hoe. It gets such a lot of work but it saves me even more.

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                • #9
                  My mattock

                  From hoiking tree stumps out to breaking up clay clods

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                  • #10
                    My Haws watering can - perfectly balanced and Felco secateurs (you'll never go back)
                    Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                    Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                    • #11
                      Sadly, whilst working, my dad and I have played the game 'if your hand was cut off and replaced by a garden tool what would it be' - hand rake came out tops

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                      • #12
                        Mine has to be my new hand fork and trowel...both with pink handles so I can find them in all the greenery.

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                        • #13
                          The in-laws bought us a shed load (literally) of garden stuff for our wedding. Reckon it's the purple gloves which match the purple trug and the yellow gloves which match the yellow trug.

                          Oh yeahhh!
                          Visit my blog if you dare! www.gardenofheathen.wordpress.com

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                          • #14
                            mine is my Matock, Daisy weeder an boarder fork. I can get everything done with just the 3 o them.

                            Wren

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                            • #15
                              Hello, I've just joined the forum and am looking through various posts and threads.

                              I do like mrbadexample's little hoe - (I will have to drop hints at Christmas!!)

                              I have some nice tools, but these three are among my favourites.




                              The BRADES trowel is about 70 years old, the CK knife I'm not sure about and the ROLCUT secateurs from about 1950



                              alex
                              Last edited by alex-adam; 30-08-2011, 06:29 AM.

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