3 Prong Long Handle Cultivator

[Cadalot]

I've been looking at these for some time and prices range anything from £14 - £30 depending on make material and who is selling them. See mine that cost me £1-50 and an old broom handle Alans Allotment: 3 Prong Long Handle Cultivator

[Lardman]

Nice - you could probably do it with a cheap pound store one as not everyones co-op has stuff for sale at a sensible price. I might have been tempted to drill all the way and use a bolt rather than a screw, stop the wobble on the head.

BTW clean the paint of the hinge on that shed !

[Cadalot]

Yes Lardy I will be giving it a coat of preservative and painting the hinges next year Pound store Charlie Dimmock ones have solid wooden handles down this way, they used to do the hollow plastic a couple of years ago.

[spamvindaloo]

I don't think it would be the same. I've got this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Cultivato...ium/B00J3AAQNY

and I think it's brilliant. It pulls really well through the soil, breaks it to a good tilth and pulls up weed roots that I'd missed, it just makes a lovely job of the bed. A small hand cultivator just doesn't do the same, presumably because of the length, shape and positioning of the tines and I think this would be the same stuck on a long handle.

I don't use many tools as I have no dig raised beds. I mainly just use small tools (trowel, hand fork, secateurs etc) but I do like to stand up and pull this through the bed. I know we all use different tools but I think this was well worth the money and one of the small percentage of my tools that I actually use.

[Kirk]

Have one of those in the Gardena range:
Combisystem Grubber - Gardening tools

Means it can be swapped for an assortment of end units, rake, leaf rake, brush, some odd 2 prong thing with flat "hoe" and even a hand trowel end - have one of each.

One of the most used items.

I normally use the 3 prong item on a long handle about 4 ft I suppose but can swap it to a hand trowel handle. Have 2 long handles as at times it is cheaper to buy an item with long handle then it is just a handle.

[boatsman]

I also have a lot of Gardena gardening tools. In addition to those mentioned by Kirk I have a telescopic pole to which I can attache a heavy duty sort of seccateurs to lop branches high up. For the same pole I also have a fruit picker with which I can pick fruit high up on the tree.