@JoeX, what do you have to fill FOUR sheds? .... I have five builders trugs, most have busted handles, various empty fence paint buckets,
Ill take some pics to show.
I also have plastic pots from plant purchases stretching back years, empty fence paint pots etc “because I might use them for something”...only I wont will I? 😅
I just won't be ending up with a collection of bulb planters!
If its pretty, at least it has aesthetic value! I have a chrome spanner I just love the way it looks and feels.
But bulb planters must be THE prime example of what Im talking about - who plant bulbs in the ground more than once or twice a year and needs a bulb planter to do it? Even if you do, the rest of the year its taking up space!
Apart from the unused pots, etc I have an electric scarifier which I knew Id use four times a year. Its huge! Dont get me wrong, its very useful on its day and manual scarification nearly broke me which is why I bought it...but the rest of the year its just taking up space and stressing me out.
I have a spade, a bulb planting trowel [for all planting] and secateurs/snips. The stuff for the grass - a mower and edging shears, and for the hedge - hedgetrimmer and a brush and shovel. A rake, a hoe and a fork for now and again. I rarely use anything more than that.
Golly gosh!! I couldn't begin to make an inventory of the potting shed. But I have a trusty trowel, rake and hoe. Most of the other stuff is in there somewhere but I will soon find out, as the potting shed is going to the tip as soon as I get the tin opener onto it and moving stuff to a plastic glasshouse! which I shall share with my hen!!
Similar to @pansyface but 6 items less than in her shed, I have no idea what a ho-mi is. Quite a few secateurs as B3 says, lose one, find one, but I only buy those from Asda at £1.99 a pair, out of all the others I’ve had in the past, I prefer those, they sharpen well on a stone.
OH has a thing about brooms so probably about 4 around the place. Minimalistic here.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
No, I'm not... my previous garden had a 7ft x 5ft shed, the maximum size allowed in a conservation area, which was absolutely stuffed with tools etc. And wood, my husband's collecting passion... my new shed is 12ft x 10ft, and the wood collection (for shelves, his model railway etc) takes up about a third of the wall space. But I can go in the shed, shut the door and revel in MY domain. Lots of tools inherited from parents and grandparents, plus things I used when gardening for a living (like a tree spit and an enormous crowbar I can hardly lift). I've given lots of things to the children but I've still got too much...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Enough said!
I have seven or eight brooms. I dont even understand one of them, let alone use it.
I also have plastic pots from plant purchases stretching back years, empty fence paint pots etc “because I might use them for something”...only I wont will I? 😅
But bulb planters must be THE prime example of what Im talking about - who plant bulbs in the ground more than once or twice a year and needs a bulb planter to do it? Even if you do, the rest of the year its taking up space!
Quite a few secateurs as B3 says, lose one, find one, but I only buy those from Asda at £1.99 a pair, out of all the others I’ve had in the past, I prefer those, they sharpen well on a stone.
OH has a thing about brooms so probably about 4 around the place.
Minimalistic here.
I found an unopened rotovator from 2018 maybe 2017 for goodness sakes. 🙄