Crocks are made of some kind of hard wearing plastic material. If you have the misfortune to visit a hospital, you will see lots of surgeons and nurses wearing them because of the comfort and ability to wear them all day. They have 'holes' in them so your feet are aerated and thick soles so that water doesn't penetrate the upper part of the shoe.
They are dead easy to slip on and off and are ultra convenient. I have mine by the conservatory door and in the morning when I troll around the garden feeding the birds, they are handy to slip on and prevent me having to walk in the damp in slippers.
Oh, and they come in an array of wonderful colours - the purple is cool !
I'm not suggesting for a minute that you wear them whilst digging an allotment but they are good for walking on soil if you are planting up, and just generally around the garden. I have come to love my crocks and only wear wellies for digging.
If you leave crocs out in the sun, they shrink. (just a tip from my aussie pals who noticed I had left a pair outside in the sun, rather than traipse mud in) I have some that look like ballerina flats, weigh next to nothing and great for beaches.
I only wear wellies in the bad weather, the rest of the time I wear lightweight gardening clogs that you can buy at most garden centres ( I noticed that Wilkinsons are now selling them) they come in all colours and are ??6.99 - how do crocs compare with that price?
Before we all get competely besotted withCrocs (whatever the colour), let's hear it for that traditional improvisational standby, the Bread-Bag Welly! Our family Christmas get-togethers were often blessed/ hampered by snowy weather. The youngsters would be keen to get out and enjoy the full benefits of whatever meagre supplies of snow had arrived overnight! But what to do when it was realised that their wellies had not been crammed into the already overloaded car?? Fortunately a ready supply of empty bread bags (plastic, not waxed paper) could be pressed into service and applied to young feet that needed urgently to get out into the snowy surrounds. Held in place by large GPO rubber bands, 'BBWs' would generally last for an hour or so until the snowman had been built, and all available spare snow had been scooped up as ammunition for the inevitable snowball 'free-for-all'! Happy Days, indeed!!
GPO rubber bands I have by the thousand David. The postman uses them to hide other peoples mail in with mine. It saves him going back up the road to deliver them.
I love my Crocs - I have two pairs, one with the ventilation holes for summer, and a pair without holes for winter.
I would love to be able to wear wellies for gardening, but I have incredibly high insteps and cannot get my foot into a pair of boots that doesn't have a zip or equivalent opening and fastening. I can get my foot into a Man's welly that is several sizes too big, but then I'm weighted to the ground by the heaviness and my food rattles around in the foot part. My aunt had a similar problem and actually had her insteps reduced surgically so that she could wear fashionable shoes.
My only problem with Crocs is that OH keeps pinching them to wear in the studio and although they were plain black, they're now multicoloured paint-splattered - the only Jackson Pollock Crocs in the world - if you'd like your Crocs Pollock-ised send them along with the return postage to my OH
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wish some one would invent a welly or boot that mud didn't stick to I always look like the mafia has given me a pair of concrete boots only after about 10 min of digging even walking across the lawn this time of year gives me a mafia pair of shoes ready for the local river LOL
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Tell me about crocs.
I googled and didn't see anything I could garden in. Or even hang out the washing. What am I missing here?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Crocks are made of some kind of hard wearing plastic material. If you have the misfortune to visit a hospital, you will see lots of surgeons and nurses wearing them because of the comfort and ability to wear them all day. They have 'holes' in them so your feet are aerated and thick soles so that water doesn't penetrate the upper part of the shoe.
They are dead easy to slip on and off and are ultra convenient. I have mine by the conservatory door and in the morning when I troll around the garden feeding the birds, they are handy to slip on and prevent me having to walk in the damp in slippers.
Oh, and they come in an array of wonderful colours - the purple is cool
!
I'm not suggesting for a minute that you wear them whilst digging an allotment but they are good for walking on soil if you are planting up, and just generally around the garden. I have come to love my crocks and only wear wellies for digging.
PS: They are also great for wearing on flights
If you leave crocs out in the sun, they shrink. (just a tip from my aussie pals who noticed I had left a pair outside in the sun, rather than traipse mud in) I have some that look like ballerina flats, weigh next to nothing and great for beaches.
Thanks, maybe they'd do me for a bit of light summer weeding. Can't see them suiting the heavy duty stuff that goes on here in winter.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Before we all get competely besotted withCrocs (whatever the colour), let's hear it for that traditional improvisational standby, the Bread-Bag Welly! Our family Christmas get-togethers were often blessed/ hampered by snowy weather. The youngsters would be keen to get out and enjoy the full benefits of whatever meagre supplies of snow had arrived overnight! But what to do when it was realised that their wellies had not been crammed into the already overloaded car?? Fortunately a ready supply of empty bread bags (plastic, not waxed paper) could be pressed into service and applied to young feet that needed urgently to get out into the snowy surrounds. Held in place by large GPO rubber bands, 'BBWs' would generally last for an hour or so until the snowman had been built, and all available spare snow had been scooped up as ammunition for the inevitable snowball 'free-for-all'! Happy Days, indeed!!
GPO rubber bands I have by the thousand David. The postman uses them to hide other peoples mail in with mine. It saves him going back up the road to deliver them.
Bread bag wellies, I like that.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I love my Crocs - I have two pairs, one with the ventilation holes for summer, and a pair without holes for winter.
I would love to be able to wear wellies for gardening, but I have incredibly high insteps and cannot get my foot into a pair of boots that doesn't have a zip or equivalent opening and fastening. I can get my foot into a Man's welly that is several sizes too big, but then I'm weighted to the ground by the heaviness and my food rattles around in the foot part. My aunt had a similar problem and actually had her insteps reduced surgically so that she could wear fashionable shoes.
My only problem with Crocs is that OH keeps pinching them to wear in the studio and although they were plain black, they're now multicoloured paint-splattered - the only Jackson Pollock Crocs in the world - if you'd like your Crocs Pollock-ised send them along with the return postage to my OH
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wish some one would invent a welly or boot that mud didn't stick to I always look like the mafia has given me a pair of concrete boots only after about 10 min of digging even walking across the lawn this time of year gives me a mafia pair of shoes ready for the local river LOL
James