Which activities do you do most?

Hi all,

Was wondering about which activities you do most throughout the year, which do you spend most of your time on?

From looking through previously posted threads (Basic tool kit, what's your favourite gardening implement and what job are we doing in the garden today) I see that everyone has their favourite tools, but are the favourite ones also the ones most used on a daily basis?

I am curious about this as I am making a survey as part of a PhD research on gardening tools for an ageing population. In this research it is the idea that, with the right tools, gardening is a healthy activity, so if we can provide people with the right tools for certain activities, they will get a lot of healthy exercise.

I have made this quick list of activities + tools that might be most used, based on the ones mentioned most in the reactions in the threads. But as this is from my own deduction, I'd like to get your thoughts on whether this list needs to be different and in which order we should put the activities.

• digging with hand trowel
• digging with spade
• digging with fork
• weeding with long-handled hoe
• weeding with hand fork
• pruning with secateurs
• pruning with loppers
• pruning with shears
• mowing with hand mower
• mowing with powered mower
• watering with hose
• watering with watering can

How about things like garden knife, strimmers, hedge trimmers, should these be in the list or do you not use them that much?
I'd love to get your thoughts on this, hope you can give me some insight here

 

Do you know what i use a lot of is my garden stool its one that can be used as a kneeling pad with handles so you can pull yourself up but also as a stool

I use it loads for pruning roses and lavender and pots of stuff. I also use mini seceteurs the most out of everything because they are much nicer to hold and lighter and better for quick pruning jobs

As my body functions more like that of a eldery person these make my gardening easier.

Oh and light plastic trugs they make life easier too

Most of my work is just pruning and weedings with a hand trowel

 

Watching my chickens eat everything and then poo on everything is probably quite high up my list.

 

Eating and sleeping now Ive given up drinking and drug taking.

 

Thank you for replying! Shouldn't have posted this and then gone straight to vacation, totally forgot I posted this here..

Have heard people mention garden stools more often, perhaps the kneeling/bending is one of the more relevant areas to focus on, being essential and quite difficult for many? Or is it better to make tool that don't require bending and kneeling: long-handled tools for example, what do you think?

Love the reactions btw, funny bunch here on the forum!

 

I would say personally i prefer using hand tools and kneeling down to do stuff

than have long tools to do it because then your hunched over and it affects your back more imo it just makes the work harder rather than easier