whats your favourite gardening tool?

[phil]

I love the trowel and the things that make my hands look like big claw to pick up the leaves. my mum has them. i like chainsaws but only when i want to imagine being a nut case.

[penciLneck]

you are.

[Virus]

not into rakes especially when they are on the grass lying in wait, that cartoon thing where it springs up into your face when you stand on it actually does happen - reality not fiction - unlike banana skins on the pavement - i mean c'mon

as for tools i like, well i have to admit that long spindley rake for clearing leaves off the lawn in autum is good, so not all rakes are bad, does it have a name? its like freddy kruger's hand if he was a massive insect, using it to scrape us those leaves is this mad mix of satisfying and infuriating at the same time..

[bitconductor]

HO

[penciLneck]

yes, a leaf rake.

[Lady E]

got to be a dibber, the tool you use to make holes to plant seedlings in.

i wouldnt have you down as a keen gardener phil.

[FiST]

leaf blower or flymo cos it hovers

[phil]

I love the garden and working land. You should never assume anything. Assumptions; unless built around reliable data are often incorrect.

[phil]

flymos tear the grass. nasty machines.

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Originally posted by phil
flymos tear the grass. nasty machines.

Yeah, they only work with really short grass...so it's pointless unless you are out every day. We have a quality petrol mower, noisy fucker though...brrrmmmmm

[mr.lizard]

some of us who live in the ghetto don't have country estates to tend phil. stop rubbing it in. i have to grow tomatoes in a grow bag stuck into an old shopping trolley and suspended out of my window

[FiST]

i just like the idea of things hovering really, i would like to have a go on one of those sit down and drive mowers like in the straight story movie

[phil]

EXCUSE ME. But i fail to see WHAT i am "Rubbing in". I am lucky to live in a house with a garden, that i know. But i fail to see how talking about my garden equates to "rubbing it in". My advice to you is learn to deal with Jelousy. It's one of life's MANY lessons.

[mr.lizard]

all i'm saying is that i'm not lucky enough to have a trust fund, so there's no need to taunt me

while you sit in yer ivory chelmsford tower eating ferrero rocher with a silver spoon just remember those of us down in the shanty-towns. we're real people too

[phil]

I am touching myself.

[mlexicon]

the garden weasel...are there garden weasels in europe?
i figure the garden weasel is the trance music of home gardening
its like a 6 pronged spear made to tear the ground up
it looks cool...but totally unnecessary

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Is that the one with sorta curved and twisted spikes on a rake handle? If so we have that, it's the garden claw.

[mlexicon]

Originally posted by Basic 2: The Revenge
Is that the one with sorta curved and twisted spikes on a rake handle? If so we have that, it's the garden claw.

exactly!....those corporate fuckers are slowly taking us over with the same fucking gardening tool

[TroyMoyOnions]

my personal favourite gardening tool would have to be..the hose..
this interlinked with a sprinkler and wooooosh....fun fun fun for all the family....does a hose count as a tool?...

or maybee the trimmer! ive never used one of these but im sure it would be fav if i ever used one....

[invisibleplanet]

Originally posted by mlexicon


exactly!....those corporate fuckers are slowly taking us over with the same fucking gardening tool

i thought i was alone in fearing this sinister tool!

my favourite gardening tool is my large fork which i I love to aerate the earth with to prepare it for planting :)

[Reese]

Strimmer is good.

[squear]

Carbide, some water drops and a match for the moles. No joke, my neighbor tested this technology for hunting moles and shrews. But the courses of this animals were very large. It was a big bang in his garden and our garden

[invisibleplanet]

molehills make fine potting compost for seed germination :) i've been known to go out with a bucket and my trowel and collect them

IP

[emef]

Originally posted by Basic 2: The Revenge
Is that the one with sorta curved and twisted spikes on a rake handle? If so we have that, it's the garden claw.

my favourite is also the garden claw, so funky and comes in 2 flavours for the real fan.

but i have been known to
get the hoe get the hoe get the hoe get the hoe
before now :)

i`m also a big fan of leaf blowers

[goinz]

I think the Vibrator is the best tool!!!

[emef]

for the garden ????? :)
you must have a high fence lol

[animal night train]

i enjoy using paraquat in the garden.

[V Knid esq]

I like gardening gloves, for getting right in there and ripping shit up with your hands. And a sickle - a sickle's good.

But mostly I'm with Animal Night Train - well, actually, not so much on the paraquat (too indiscriminate) - I like my Roundup. I like the technique my gran taught me for dealing with bindweed. You shake up lots of roundup in a carrier bag, then you bundle together the bindweed into a load of little bundles (without tearing it up or anything) and then tie a weedkillery carrier bag over each bundle. It kills the fucker right down to the bottom of its deep roots, without getting any of your good plants or killing your cat or anything.

[dirtyho]

hey back off bit conductor - thats MY tool ;)

[bitconductor]

lol i was waiting for you to say that