As I am always misplacing things in the garden, I was wondering what other people do to keep track of their hand tools etc. Do you use a utility belt/apron?
Usually a small trug inside a bigger one that is used for weeds and bits of rubbish. Bigger jobs they go in the wheelbarrow. I have a belt but don't use it much.
I just use my hands and yes, I lose trowels and secateurs and then find them again, sometimes months later.
Nowadays I try to be disciplined and stay in one spot at a time and finish what I'm doing before being distracted by something somewhere else. I also now have a plastic tool carrying trug that keeps things together.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Lucky you didn't take your nose off walking past the tree.
I've lost a few pairs of secateurs over the years. Lost a hand fork and found it four years later when splitting an overly large Lupin. Seems I had left it in the soil after planting and the Lupin had grown around it..
I too am always mislaying handtools around the garden and my partner has made it easier for me to relocate them by putting bright yellow fluorescent tape on them and the trug they travel around in is also bright yellow. Despite this a pair of secateurs overwintered on a climbing rose but have now been renovated.
We also often find tools that others have thrown out at the local recycling site and renovate them too, best find was a sack trolley which when cleaned up, de-rusted, painted and oiled works wonders carrying large pots and sacks of compost about! We have acquired several forks, spades and picks with broken handles as well which my partner has drilled out and replaced the handles of and are good as new. Excess second hand tools go to a local charity which collects them for use in developing countries.
I lose stuff on a regular basis despite all my good intentions. Even worse though is that an old rake and a useful scoop have both gone missing and that's a local lad nicking stuff which is of no use to him whatsoever
i use a green kitchen caddy meant for food scraps i got from freecycle but you needed brown paper bags (expensive) so it is just right for using for carrying tools around, now my potting shed (OH calls it that) but isnt big enought to pot anything) is up and running i too have a hook for everything so i know if anything is missing. Most of my time is spent looking for trowels etc i lost a small fork in the space of 4ft last week both me and my grown up son looked for it, took us ages to find it and it was stood in the soil just as jimmycrawford said, why they make them the same colours as gardens is beyond me
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I use the retractable lanyards from work - usually used for a security pass in offices.
Usually a small trug inside a bigger one that is used for weeds and bits of rubbish. Bigger jobs they go in the wheelbarrow.
I have a belt but don't use it much.
I have a tool trug too
I just use my hands and yes, I lose trowels and secateurs and then find them again, sometimes months later.
Nowadays I try to be disciplined and stay in one spot at a time and finish what I'm doing before being distracted by something somewhere else. I also now have a plastic tool carrying trug that keeps things together.
They're usually in the back pockets of my gardening jeans ... hence occasional alarming crashing noises when visiting the downstairs cloakroom
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They start in the wheel barrow then get scattered around the garden
OH has made me hooks in the shed, so if there are gaps at clearing up time I go and look for the missing items
So far I've not lost much
a pair of secateurs, under and pile of shreddings, went through the shredder.
a pruning saw, hung in a tree for2 years, too rusty to renovate.
another pair of secateurs, in the compost heap, was renovated.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lucky you didn't take your nose off walking past the tree.
I've lost a few pairs of secateurs over the years. Lost a hand fork and found it four years later when splitting an overly large Lupin. Seems I had left it in the soil after planting and the Lupin had grown around it..
I too am always mislaying handtools around the garden and my partner has made it easier for me to relocate them by putting bright yellow fluorescent tape on them and the trug they travel around in is also bright yellow. Despite this a pair of secateurs overwintered on a climbing rose but have now been renovated.
We also often find tools that others have thrown out at the local recycling site and renovate them too, best find was a sack trolley which when cleaned up, de-rusted, painted and oiled works wonders carrying large pots and sacks of compost about! We have acquired several forks, spades and picks with broken handles as well which my partner has drilled out and replaced the handles of and are good as new. Excess second hand tools go to a local charity which collects them for use in developing countries.
I lose stuff on a regular basis despite all my good intentions. Even worse though is that an old rake and a useful scoop have both gone missing and that's a local lad nicking stuff which is of no use to him whatsoever
i use a green kitchen caddy meant for food scraps i got from freecycle but you needed brown paper bags (expensive) so it is just right for using for carrying tools around, now my potting shed (OH calls it that) but isnt big enought to pot anything) is up and running i too have a hook for everything so i know if anything is missing. Most of my time is spent looking for trowels etc i lost a small fork in the space of 4ft last week both me and my grown up son looked for it, took us ages to find it and it was stood in the soil just as jimmycrawford said, why they make them the same colours as gardens is beyond me