your favourite tool/equipment for gardening

My favourite tools are the Rotavator,Mattock and the Swoe,also my husband for doing the hard jobs that I cannot do like climbing up into the fruit trees and re felting the sheds,because I don't like heights and would get stuck up there and wouldn't be able to get back down :D :D

 

What's a swoe? :confused:
My favourite tool was a present bought for me by beloved to encourage me to weed. Needless to say it was not appreciated at the time (chocolates would have been better) but I wouldn't be without it now. It has a long handle and an arrow shaped head which is great for pulling up weeds, dead annuals etc.

 

Here you go, Celia!

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I don't have one either! I don't find I need it... but I do like my perennial planter....

 

My favourite tools are, an old wickes spade that the handle bent out of the shaft slightly and became a brill turf lifter, My secatuers but finally, my stihl strimmer with it's attachment that takes 6 strands, it makes a very strong strimmer / brushcutter, but also a brilliant lawn edger. But i love any labour saving gadgets too. :D

 

Being disabled i wouldn't b able 2 dig my allotment without my Terrex auto spade,sadly spring has snapped,can anyone help as i'me having trouble finding a replacement. :confused:

 

My favourite tool at present is a battery powered Bosche hedge cutter - tried it out last week and found it lovely and light to use, much easier than my old hedge cutter, and hardly any vibration. By the time I had finished with the old one, I felt I had st vitus dance.

 

Secateurs, hand fork and trowel; there's barely enough room between the roses to wield anything bigger.
I did have a couple of days recently with a stone cutting blade in the angle grinder plus a lump hammer and chisel to make holes in concrete so I could get at more soil to put roses in.

Cheers MIKE

 

A hardworking friend- unfortunately seldom available :D

 

Isn't it funny how you get some tools that you really grow to love working with? Different shapes etc. for everyone I should imagine too...

I have a few tools that I'm very fond of, including a lovely border fork and spade that a friend bought me, but I think my absolute favourites would have to be a hand fork and planting trowel my dad got for me from Lidl's or somewhere. I think it's mostly that the handles are just the right shape or something...

 

My spade I bought in 1968. Its only had three handles and two blades. Wouldnt be without it!!

 

Another vote for the Dutch Hoe, so versatile

 

My knife with disposable blades, annd an old tablespoon - I'm a greenhoude gardener!

 

I'm unable, for health reasons, to get to garden centres, nurseries, etc., so have to do all muy shopping online. It's certainlt not my faourite tool, but I couldn't possibly manage without my computer.

 

my small hoe, which ends in a pointy bit.

 

I have a good quality narrow paint s****er which I love for twist weeding as it is light but feels very positive and has a comfy handle and it also slices dandelions from my path with great eaze. I love it becasue I thought of trying to use it and it worked really good and feels nice to work with.
I also have the first spade I ever bought and its quite small but feels nifty and my size. It is stainless steel and has a green plastic handle that has weathered and so it looks as old as it is which is visually nice because its a bit of a buzz to be grown up enough to have old tools.