Since there was no mention of a desert island in the OP, I'm assuming the boat sunk in the lake of RHS somewhere or other so I'll take the tools that I could not be without when gardening ...
1. My gardening hat - I never venture out there without it.
2. Hand Fork. I had a stainless steel one that lost a finger along the way but hubby bought me one that I'd have never chosen myself and it is brilliant.
3, Ack, can I not have 4? I have a square piece of pond liner (moisture-proof) and a funfur mat that I kneel on and can't garden without - the dogs always come and sit by me on it to help but I also have different coloured trugs - green for the green bin and coloured for "safe to compost". And who can live without secateurs? Oh gosh, I'm up to 6 I think, I'm rubbish at this game!
Oh and if there is a desert island involved then I'd grab my thyroid medication (not sure how long I'd last when they run out anyway!!)
Desert islands don't normally have much cultivatable ground so I would take more practical stuff like an axe, a machete and a huge box of matches. And a huge tarpaulin, lots of bug spray, lots of drinkable water.......
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
The question was 'gardening tools' - not what three random things would you need. Personally I don't use my AK47 much in the garden. I'd let Hogweed off with the machete and the box of matches, but the drinkable water is perhaps not entering into the spirit....
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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1 loppers
2 long handled spade
3 secateurs
Thought about a spade or better still a fork but would go no-dig. Then I could swap the sneeboer for a clam shell and have secateurs and keep OH!
I think killing for food may be better than gardening.
1. fishing tackle
2. spear.
3. AK47
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Since there was no mention of a desert island in the OP, I'm assuming the boat sunk in the lake of RHS somewhere or other so I'll take the tools that I could not be without when gardening ...
1. My gardening hat - I never venture out there without it.
2. Hand Fork. I had a stainless steel one that lost a finger along the way but hubby bought me one that I'd have never chosen myself and it is brilliant.
3, Ack, can I not have 4? I have a square piece of pond liner (moisture-proof) and a funfur mat that I kneel on and can't garden without - the dogs always come and sit by me on it to help but I also have different coloured trugs - green for the green bin and coloured for "safe to compost". And who can live without secateurs? Oh gosh, I'm up to 6 I think, I'm rubbish at this game!
Oh and if there is a desert island involved then I'd grab my thyroid medication (not sure how long I'd last when they run out anyway!!)
Proper gardening tools would be.
My dad's old Push pull hoe, "his" pruning knife and a potato fork!
For a real desert island- The knife, a machete, big ball of very strong string.
It's in the title Cloggie!
Obelixx, just spotted that having come out and back in again.
Tol' you I was rubbish at this!!
Desert islands don't normally have much cultivatable ground so I would take more practical stuff like an axe, a machete and a huge box of matches. And a huge tarpaulin, lots of bug spray, lots of drinkable water.......
The question was 'gardening tools' - not what three random things would you need.
Personally I don't use my AK47 much in the garden. I'd let Hogweed off with the machete and the box of matches, but the drinkable water is perhaps not entering into the spirit....
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I knew what I was taking before I started this thread and now I have no idea!
It started off with my shredder, chainsaw and funny wee three fingered pointy thing. Then someone mentioned wheelbarrow. Well that's a shoo in.
I'm thinking the ideas for dual function bits and pieces have some merit. Coconut harvester. Attention drawer...
"We're gonna need a bigger boat!"