One thing that I know when am gardening. If I lose something eventually it will turn up.
It could be days, weeks, months or even years. But eventually I will find my lost item of gardening equipment.
I have moaned and ranted on here before about why don't garden tool manufacturers paint everything bright pink or red instead of green or brown? Green and brown are natural habitat colours.
If you don't want them to get camouflaged paint them in bright colours . I have a pair of red handled loppers and I find them in seconds. My green or black handled loppers can take me five to ten minutes to find. Perhaps they think if we paint them green or brown the gardeners will lose them and buy new ones? It's the garden equivalent of The Man In The White Suit.
Secateurs are another one of my how to lose garden specialities. I have dug up a few rusty pairs in the compost heaps in my time.
These days I only buy cheap secateurs from a car boot sale or Lidl. I know they will either break or lose them.
Any road or any way. I was digging out some fym the other day for my raised beds and I uncovered the top of a big black tree plant pot.
They are briiant for putting weeds or small stones in. I bought the said plant bucket for five Euros a couple of years ago from a carboot sale. It's been used hundreds of times and I found it very useful.
I managed to eventually uncover and dig round the pot and prize from It's fym prison.
Here it is for your perusal:
My old friend. Big black bucket! Or if it was in Keeping Up Appearances: Black bouquet.
Do you lose your gardening tools in the garden, but you know they will turn up some time?
You know you have been writing blogs for over fifteen years and you can find an old tree plant bucket interesting enough to write about. Perhaps I am turning into an Eric Olthwaite and could write about ' interesting' coal shovels?😊
That's why I keep my tools so tidy, I can see at a glance if something is missing, I don't always immediately find it, but I know it's somewhere in the garden. Back in February 2015, I did a post 'Sad little post', it was how to fold a plastic shopping bag small enough to fit into my tiny handbag.
ReplyDeleteI have mountainous piles of fym at times Marlene and it's easy to lose things. I often leave tools in other people's gardens.
DeleteHow did it come to be buried so well?
ReplyDeleteMost things turn up in time. Except for knives and forks. Damn it. We are missing quite a few. I presume they've gone in the rubbish and not the compost.
Now we know how odd things get dug up by archeologists. I wonder what they'll make of your secateurs in a few thousand years
Socks disappear forever Linda. Perhaps the archaeologists will think we cut our toes with secateurs?
DeleteDave, how did you manage to lose a big black bucket that size!!!
ReplyDeleteNumber one son piled up the fym with a 3 and a half ton digger and managed to bury my bucket at the same time.
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