And sometimes, if I'm not concentrating, I drop prunings in there as well so there's dead leaves at the bottom of my bucket. This does not make us bad people @tui34 😉
How many times have others dropped their secateurs into their weeding bucket/trug for safe keeping and then thrown everything into the gardening waste bin? It's handy keeping a hoe near the bin to sift through afterwards!
I've got one of those grabby stick efforts. They're handy for fishing stuff out of the wheelie bin if necessary too. And to pull a branch closer for pruning.
Actually I have 4 (various brands but all the same kit) because it's the only tool which I've really got on with for sharpening stuff - tools, kitchen knives, secateurs etc etc. So there's one in the kitchen, one in the camper van, one in the garage (front garden tools) and one in the shed (back garden tools).
Since discovering the knack of sharpening tools and knives I have become a tad obsessed with keeping things sharp and oiled.
Spades and forks think themselves fortunate if they get the (heavy clay) soil knocked off them at the end of a session. Most larger tools are hung on hooks in the shed but small hand tools used at every gardening session are stuffed in the garden trug (along with assorted lengths of previously used string and twine, discarded labels, blunt pencil, a few dried leaves and lumps of dried mud...)
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
PS @Plantminded . @nutcutlet can explain what sort of noise secateurs make when they go through the garden shredder....🥳
Indeed yes, it's a short loud clatter but the shredder keeps going. This is unlike the sound of a thick leather gardening glove going through, that's a more muffled sound and the shredder stops. Prescription specs hardly make a sound and have no effect on the shredder
My lawn mower gets its underside cleaned with a stick. Usually i's quite clean as I comminute woody material like hedge prunings and herbaceous stems by running the mower over a small pile. Dry leaves work, but not quite as good. If I mow when the grass is a bit wet, the mower is more in need of a clean.
My Bosch hedge cutter I oil after every use and then run it a bit to clean. My first rechargeable battery didn't last too long (think e-Vehicles). My non-original replacement advised that I recharge through the winter. I have a rule to do it on the 1st of every winter month at the same day as my month-end accounts.. It has certainly lasted a lot longer.
A note re non-original: It doesn't quite fit as well and tends to drop off in inconvenient places Fortunately not yet a hard surface. I have to fix with sticky tape.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
The robo mower does get properly cleaned once a year before it's put away for the winter, and then quick cleans during the year. Because it's out all day, every day, in all weathers except storms, you get this wonderful build up of decomposing sludge that I promise you stinks like nothing else on earth if you leave it too long. You really regret not doing it if you don't. It also gets a new set of blades mid year if necessary.
A trug? For tools and accessories? That's a very Ladies' thing, like a handbag. Even the late Queen and Margaret Thatcher clumsily carried one with flunkies all around. That's waht pockets are for.
I take my cut flowers straight to water. And runner beans straight to the kitchen maid. Time is of the essence.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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How many times have others dropped their secateurs into their weeding bucket/trug for safe keeping and then thrown everything into the gardening waste bin? It's handy keeping a hoe near the bin to sift through afterwards!
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Actually I have 4 (various brands but all the same kit) because it's the only tool which I've really got on with for sharpening stuff - tools, kitchen knives, secateurs etc etc. So there's one in the kitchen, one in the camper van, one in the garage (front garden tools) and one in the shed (back garden tools).
Since discovering the knack of sharpening tools and knives I have become a tad obsessed with keeping things sharp and oiled.
Spades and forks think themselves fortunate if they get the (heavy clay) soil knocked off them at the end of a session. Most larger tools are hung on hooks in the shed but small hand tools used at every gardening session are stuffed in the garden trug (along with assorted lengths of previously used string and twine, discarded labels, blunt pencil, a few dried leaves and lumps of dried mud...)
@Plantminded . @nutcutlet can explain what sort of noise secateurs make when they go through the garden shredder....🥳
In the sticks near Peterborough
My Bosch hedge cutter I oil after every use and then run it a bit to clean.
My first rechargeable battery didn't last too long (think e-Vehicles). My non-original replacement advised that I recharge through the winter. I have a rule to do it on the 1st of every winter month at the same day as my month-end accounts.. It has certainly lasted a lot longer.
A note re non-original: It doesn't quite fit as well and tends to drop off in inconvenient places Fortunately not yet a hard surface. I have to fix with sticky tape.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I take my cut flowers straight to water. And runner beans straight to the kitchen maid. Time is of the essence.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."