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Desert Island Gardening Tools

There you are and your boat has sunk. image

However...you've managed to grab your three favourite/most useful garden tools. image

What did you grab and why?

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  • SlumSlum Posts: 385

    Spade - so many uses

    Secateurs - you're always going to need to cut stuff

    Wheelbarrow - to help my back last longer

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    Hand fork- can't do anything in the garden without it - weeding, planting, harvesting, scratching my nose......

    Secateurs - at least I can gather some kindling to get the fire going

    Mattock - more useful than a spade in uncultivated ground - especially stony ground or where there are lots of tree roots. Can also be used to both dispatch and bury pirates and cannibals

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Gosh, raisingirl, you're a plucky one, I would hide!

    Secateurs, for the same reasons as above.

    Something tall, such as a rake, to attach a piece of clothing to wave if a ship should appear, also for knocking down coconuts.

    Am tempted by a small fork or trowel as I use them so much but don't know what I'd use them for with no seeds. So will go with wheelbarrow for gathering wood for fire (assuming I could light it) or stuff for making a shelter, or coconuts or fresh water from the inland stream (hope there is one or I wouldn't last long).

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    surely we'd all need 2 pairs of secatuers? Don't we always lose one mid job and find it a week later?

    Devon.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Hostafan1 says:

    surely we'd all need 2 pairs of secatuers? Don't we always lose one mid job and find it a week later?

    See original post

    No - I keep mine in my back pocket which means I always find them when I sit down for a cup of tea image

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • As any ex-infantry man knows a trenching tool, for calls of nature, digging a slit trench in case Pirates bombard you and hand to hand if they try landing. Also shears for cutting new grass skirts for any stray maidens who may arrive and a Hoe for singing. Hey Hoe hey hoe its off to work I go.

    Frank.

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Busy-Lizzie says:

    Gosh, raisingirl, you're a plucky one, I would hide!

    See original post

    Mm, although on the other hand I can be 'brave at a distance' safe in the knowledge you'd never get me on a boat in the first place image

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I basic hand weeder with two wide prongs - not a new-fangled tricksy one

    2, a narrowish pointy trowel

    3 sharp secateurs

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Sneeboer trowel, Wolf push-me-pull-you hoe head with long handle and OH - he's my heavy shifter.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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