I’m always losing mine, once dropped in this garden, never seen again I’ll winter when we have a cut down.
Myanswer is buy several pairs, I always ask the kids to buy for presents, my favourites and the ones I can find, clean and sharpen over and over again are 1.99 from Asda. Daughter buys them when she’s in there. I don’t deserve expensive ones, the best I have are spear and Jackson but I don’t like them as much as the Asda ones.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Lost my trowel a year ago and am reduced to a handfork, but my clippers are never missing. They have bright yellow handles. I keep track of my rechargeable shears by plugging them in as soon as I finish with them.
The earthy tones of some equipment certainly makes losing stuff easier, practically it'd be better if it was sold in neon. My best shears are red ,though somewhat ironically I found them on my allotment plot.
I always put bright stripes of insulating tape round the handles of my trowels etc. Makes them much easier to find. I have also been known to paint canes in fluorescent pink to mark areas where I have sown seed or planted out 'gems'.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
I have lost numerous pairs of secateurs over the years but now have a red pair which I keep in the back pocket of my jeans when I am working. Yes I sit on them, but at least I know where they are. Did lose my pair of ratchet secateurs earlier this year, think then ended up in the garden waste. My hand tools are a different matter so I really like the idea of using fluorescent paint or nail varnish to mark them. Great stuff.
Friends give me their old pairs so I must have a dozen of choppers. I bought my first lovely pair of Falco (on a forum recomm) and have not seen them since the first time I used them. I always wonder if I leave things in the front garden and they have been nicked, but it's never true. They always turn up under a pile of pots.
My mum used to put my mittens on elastic, threaded through the sleeves of my coat. Maybe a lanyard clipped to a belt. We use curly kevlar loops with clips for cameras and torches when we dive.
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Myanswer is buy several pairs, I always ask the kids to buy for presents, my favourites and the ones I can find, clean and sharpen over and over again are 1.99 from Asda. Daughter buys them when she’s in there. I don’t deserve expensive ones, the best I have are spear and Jackson but I don’t like them as much as the Asda ones.