Garden tool quiz

[OllieMartin]

In looking for Ian White's 2-pronged fork I stumbled across a website which hires old garden tools as props.
They have a section of old garden...stuff...which they're not sure what it is. I immediately thought to myself, "I know a collection of old gardening relics and I bet some of them know what these are!"

Tool Quiz

Anyone got any ideas?

[T8Ter]

I think the terracotta flask is for forcing rhubarb

[Nicos]

Those are also interesting Ollie!

We often see wonderful wooden farm implements for sale over here- I love seeing what the farmers- and locals- used everyday out and about on their farms or in the potagers.
Living history- fantastic!

[Alison]

I think the terracotta flask is for forcing rhubarb

Agreed, looks like that to me too and the narrow glass cloches look like cucumber straighteners to me, remember them being on a quiz show years ago, you put the baby cucumbers in them and the glass forces them to stay straight as they grow.

[Jeanied]

Those are some snazzy glass plant labels there!

[pdblake]

I've seen those little glass cloches on Victorian Kitchen Garden. They're for shaping cucumbers IIRC.

[Scunny Zeb]

I think the terracotta tube is a land drain pipe

as on here..

http://www.ribaproductselector.com/D...919792.pdf?ac=

[geoff]

The oblong tin container is a VASCULUM
It is for collecting plant/botannical specimens on field trips so they are not crushed or damaged while you carry them back for study, propogating or whatever
We were using these when I studied A level biology in 1968 & 1969

[SarzWix]

Those basket thingies could be for forcing seakale? Or chicory/chicons.

[Jeanied]

I think the basket could be for bees?

[OllieMartin]

For those ones that you know, did you let them know what you thought they were?
Would be interesting to see if the list is reduced to nothing!

[green thing]

spade with a hole think its for digging up pond plants
clay tubes land drains