Favourite tool?

[pauco]

Hello, I've just joined the forum and am looking through various posts and threads.

I do like mrbadexample's little hoe - (I will have to drop hints at Christmas!!)

I have some nice tools, but these three are among my favourites.




The trowel is about 70 years old, the knife I'm not sure about and the secateurs from about 1950



alex

They just dont or can't make em like they used to, last you a lifetime. So enjoy em!

paul.

[Bigmallly]

Mine has to be my long handled bulb planter. Not only is it good for spuds but perfect for planting out veg that's been potted on. Saves on the old back.

[Florence Fennel]

I'm treating myself to one of those ^^^^

My favourite tool is my trusty little trowel.

[HeyWayne]

Never leave home without my hands.

My current fave is, like Snadger, a long handled spade. Bought mine here: Get Digging - Tools for the Allotment and Garden and it's seen some abuse, but still going strong.

[snohare]

the CK knife I'm not sure about

Blimey, you have a Calvin Klein knife ? That must be worth a bob or two...

I am hard pressed to say which tool I like best, it depends on the job funnily enough ! I would say a mattock but it's too heavy ( I really want an azada)...so my current favourite, recently acquired through a charity shop, is a beat up old garden fork. Probably about thirty years old, nothing plastic, the wood on the top of the handle is beginning to go - but it is lightweight, well balanced, and has just the right length of tines to do a hundred different jobs.
Once I've fixed the handle on my Lidl extra-long handled spade, that may go back to top place. Forks aren't much cop at shifting soil into raised beds.