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Are you a gardening tool minimalist?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    “I’ve decided to sell my Hoover … well, it was just collecting dust.”
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @JoeX, That looks like serious hoarding - and I'm as guilty as anybody!
     I wonder why you've got 3 unopened tins of fence paint?
     I've found that anything garden related goes pretty quickly stuck at your garden entrance with a note saying 'free'. It does round here anyway. Just be brave!!!  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @JoeX. Provided you still have a fence, I suppose it's acceptable😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @pansyface I have got one of those under the bench in the GH never used. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have to agree with you, I’ll pull it out and use it.😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I have one spade, one fork, one trowel, one brush. I find garden scissors among the most useful garden tool (I have lots) and a dozen secateurs - given, found, inherited, bought.

    On the small community plots I use just one tool - a hori hori which does pretty much everything and is light to carry.
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    I love my pointy metal trowel but I have various plastic ones too and my small fork trowel but I’ve broken a couple of them now as the wood has weaken when I forget it in the borders and it’s been raining. Also my secateurs, always use them - I need 2 or 3 due to forgetting where I’ve put them down. I try to remember them by carrying them in my compost sifter which doubles up as various things.
    Tools I use less frequently but need - lopper, hoe, fork, spade, rake for soil, rake for grass x2, broom, axe, electric hedge trimmer, mower, new jet washer. 
    I also have the useless bulb planter. Otherwise not too crazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My trusty wallpaper scraper, two pronged weeder, secateurs, little rake I bought for 99p , my kneeling mat, my gloves and a bucket to put the weeds in. That's me sorted. And a mattock sometimes.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Actually just remembered that I use a bbq fork to get weeds out of the path cracks. Really useful.
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