Gemma, you're right about gentle exercise for the back so long as you don't overdo it. My arthritic knee is much improved if I use it. The worst thing for it is prolonged periods of sitting down which is sometimes inevitable in meetings.
Perhaps its the soft South ,but on the allotments in my area every .owner seems to have or hire one for the spring rush,
I have belonged to three sites and noticed this on every one.
I must admit during my time on them I was very much one of the "young ones "
Hence my double digging enthusiasm with a spade at the time.
I got older and wiser? perhaps.
Small gardens perhaps equate to spades large areas perhaps not.
Again if one was working and only able to cultivate at the weekends then what would be better . A yard or an acre ?
Anyway ,as usual after a few posts on just about any subject , the original post is now way off track , but who cares ,.much more fun to dip in and out and enjoy life..
Same problem here Welshonion, I can't tolerate sitting or standing still for long at all. After two years of it driving me slowly round the bend I got back into the gardening and what a difference.
November Member, I have to say I really liked double digging our clay this year. So it took me a month to do, but my work is seasonal so I have the time. Quite honestly it was too wet for a cultivator to do anything to it when I started. The machine would have bogged down and clogged up. It was lifting the soil with a good old spade that got it to dry out enough to finish with a cultivator. I could only double dig half the plot this year, I settled for single digging the rest, but looking forward to seeing the results.
I have one of these, stainless steel and can be used for unpeeled cloves as well. One of my favorite kitchen tools. Ikea Konic Garlic Press only £2.50. Can thoroughly recommend for those who don't get on with knives!
All too true Philippa, regarding the cultivator. I didn't put the cultivator near the veg plot until after I had cleared it of nettle and mallow roots. Think what it would be like in the spring if I had let it chop them all up into dozens of root cuttings.
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Perhaps its the soft South ,but on the allotments in my area every .owner seems to have or hire one for the spring rush,
I have belonged to three sites and noticed this on every one.
I must admit during my time on them I was very much one of the "young ones "
Hence my double digging enthusiasm with a spade at the time.
I got older and wiser? perhaps.
Small gardens perhaps equate to spades large areas perhaps not.
Again if one was working and only able to cultivate at the weekends then what would be better . A yard or an acre ?
Anyway ,as usual after a few posts on just about any subject , the original post is now way off track , but who cares ,.much more fun to dip in and out and enjoy life..
Same problem here Welshonion, I can't tolerate sitting or standing still for long at all. After two years of it driving me slowly round the bend I got back into the gardening and what a difference.
November Member, I have to say I really liked double digging our clay this year. So it took me a month to do, but my work is seasonal so I have the time. Quite honestly it was too wet for a cultivator to do anything to it when I started. The machine would have bogged down and clogged up. It was lifting the soil with a good old spade that got it to dry out enough to finish with a cultivator. I could only double dig half the plot this year, I settled for single digging the rest, but looking forward to seeing the results.
I have one of these, stainless steel and can be used for unpeeled cloves as well. One of my favorite kitchen tools. Ikea Konic Garlic Press only £2.50. Can thoroughly recommend for those who don't get on with knives!
Poke it out with a sharp knife
All too true Philippa, regarding the cultivator. I didn't put the cultivator near the veg plot until after I had cleared it of nettle and mallow roots. Think what it would be like in the spring if I had let it chop them all up into dozens of root cuttings.
No poking, Philippa, you just scratch the crushed garlic off the bottom, all that's left in here
is the skin (I always leave the skins on) which comes out easily. Quick rinse, and Bob's your uncle. By the way, also sold by Amazon.
BTW, Ikea doesn't just sell furniture, they also have some excellent kitchen ware.