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useful non- gardening tools.
Have you any tools not really meant for gardening that you find useful? My latest discovery is a slater's hammer. It's pointy at one end a bit like a small pick axe but pointier. It's great for breaking up clods of clay and for getting under perennials which have received the death sentence. Another good one is that little trowel thing you use for putting polyfilla on the wall. It's great to use as a hoe in restricted areas. Scissors have various obvious uses depending on size. Can anyone recommend anything else?
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Bread knife for sawing up clumps of plants to make divisions.
Builders' mesh for reinforcing concrete - makes a transparent fence between us and the field behind and a trellis between the main bed and the woodland corner of our garden - great for supporting blackberries and pumpkins and sweet peas and clematis.
Mesh laundry bags for hanging up and storing onions / shallots
Mine was a crow bar! When I arrived in this house there was a whacking great old tree stump at the bottom of the garden. Took a couple of weeks of sweating, swearing excavation, sawing and use of the crowbar to both lever bits out and in some cases, hammer it into thick roots in order to split them. Between the two of us, Himself and I could just carry it and it filled the boot of my old Freelander!
Meat skewer for stabbing slugs,
eyebrow tweezers for picking up seeds for individual pots.
Pallet knife for close quarter hoeing. Get's into tight spots where a hoe can't go. Also good for getting between slabs before re pointing.
Paint scraper sounds the business runny. Better than my polyfilla trowel. And I've got one already!
Empty and dry fruit juice bottles for collecting seed . I To easily seperate the seed from seed pods shake vigorously, your left with the loose seed at the base.many a time this is then easily tipped out .