Jobs for this week

Ill start - IM pro -I love em :D :D

 

I'd love one, but I don't think my garden is big enough to justify it and it's not at the top of my list of expensive gadgets!
Any on the lawn get mowed up as Dendrobium suggests, and those on the decking at the top of the garden are collected in a plastic bag with the aid of a plastic grass rake. Those on the borders are left to rot where they are.

 

If standing on the fence isn't allowed, I'll be on the pro side - they save me a lot of time, and they make the leaves take up a lot less space in bags in my van, so less bulk to take to the cowp, even if it's rather heavier.... In particular it's helped recently when the grass had to be cut, but I couldn't pick up with the mower - I used the blowy-sooky-thingy and that coped with it.

 

I'm agin 'em but then I'm an unrepentant unreconstructed Luddite. I use an elecric mower and hate it.

I rake leaves and pick them up with two plastic green board things with teeth. Came free in a gardening mag yonks ago. Leaves on borders stay there and sometimes get added to with leaves from the lawn if I can't be bothered to barrow them to the compo bins.

 

Just a lot of (hot) air really :D :D

 

Oh, dear....... groan!

 

I've burned out two due to trying to lift wet leaves
They are also great for getting the garden bonfire going if one's flame gun is out of fuel :rolleyes:
The smell of roasting hedgehog on a winter's day takes some beating :D :D

 

Also good for clearing snow off paths - but only if you get there before everyone else.
Best thing I have used for cleaning up sand that was lying on a tarmac road.

 

That's a brilliant idea about shifting snow Beefy. I'll give it a try IF we get any.

 

... and if it's not the wrong type of snow....

 

I'll show Mrs W where I keep the shovel :D

 

Back to flame throwers again are we - as well as the noisy leaf blowers (every morning round here one or other of the local gardeners are switched on ! Am having a bad week since my lawn mower, a friend for 30 years, has given up the ghost and just at the time when the grass is at it's highest. A Mountfield electric - never had a service in 30 years only blade changes any thoughts on a good replacement?

I'm with you Dave - however am not sure that providing Mrs S with a shovel would help a it would probably finish up banging on my head

 

Could be fun - two mutually hostile neighbours blowing leaves (or snow) on to each others hallowed turf. Multi ping-pong with clouds of leaves shuffling to and fro. Could set it to music.

Professional garden/park maintenance aside - why do people want time and labour saving gardening gadgets? What do they do with all the labour and time that they save?
Isn't the best thing about gardening the time that you spend gardening? Personal fitness comes from healthy exercise not from holding a noisy polluting gizzmo. Ah well... sad sad sad

 

You have a very major point there, HB! Yes, when I'm working in my own garden, I enjoy doing everything the old-fashioned traditional ways, (apart from the lawn-mower, that is!) I dug over the whole area by hand (or foot?) rather than using a rotavator, and use a rake to scarify, although I ahve a petrol-drive one for work - better than a work-out at the gym! :D

 

I love gardening but find some things very hard work, so a petrol lawnmower [for instance] is a must. It isn't that I want labour saving devices, although I do love gadgets, it's that I need them to do some things.
What do i do with the time I save? More gardening!