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  • Gold1locksGold1locks Posts: 498

    Besides the usual, I have a 5 foot long heavy crowbar, a heavy duty mattock, and a Mantis cultivator, all of which are essential for my heavy clay soil with a hardpan 12" - 15" down. 

  • BookertooBookertoo Posts: 1,306

    An onion hoe, wonderful for getting between plants too tightly planted as most of mine are, my trusty Felco secatuers (sp?), an old vegetable knife for opening sacks of compost etc, and for getting between cracks in the paths, my camera for recording the best - or the worst - of what happened as it did happen.   Soft trug buckets in various sizes for moving anything from water to weeds, in quantities that I can carry alone. 

  • FloBearFloBear Posts: 2,281

    1) kneepads

    2) forks - hand and border

    3) pink trug bucket - it's my " useful pot to put things in"

  • backyardeebackyardee Posts: 132

    I have a 6 4' shed that the walls are covered in hanging things for different jobs. I wouldn't be without any of them. And then in a different workshop i have my mower, rotorvator and all my petrol machines. The one thing I don't need is my stihl lawn edging attachment. I can do the job just as well with my strimmer.

    But someone in the garden who knows nothing about gardening or my way of gardening usually ends up with me thinking, "what a tool"  image 

  • An old serrated kitchen knife, great for getting the weeds out between paving stones and a chop-stick for lifting and dibbing seedlings.

  • My collection ranges from inherited tools to all the usual electrical suspects but the tools I tend to use the most are my grubby hands and revolting fingernails! Great for getting in between rows to find weeds and pests Prune....well a brutting here and there really Pinching out Dibbing Cross-pollinating etc One very little, very sharp penknife, as a concealed weapon is a favourite friend.
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