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 it 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?
DeleteIvedug quite a bit of cutlery out of allotment weed/compost heaps. I guess other people, previous tenats of the allotment have list their curlery with their kitchen acraps.
DeleteI sometimes find my dad's ancestors pieces of crockery in the soil. I find our kids long lost toys.
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.
ReplyDeleteYour big black bucket is a real beauty! I have never lost any tools or containers etc. in our garden but I do understand what you are saying about colours.
ReplyDeleteBlack Bucket could have been the sequel to Black Beauty and written by me and not hat Norfolk lass Anna Sewell and sponsored by B and Q YP. I am a male and not very good at shades of colours. If I go in a paint shop and ask for a tin of blue paint. I don't want azure I just want blue. The amount time I spend looking for my gardening tools because they are painted green like the grass.
ReplyDeleteThe new colourful line in gardening items could be called "Dave's Tools". Most fellows only have one tool.
Delete"Dave's Tools or Dave's Dogs 🐕 I don't think they will be an overnight success. I like your humour YP.😀👍
ReplyDeleteI beg your pardon ye young whippersnapper!
DeleteI beg your pardon. I didn't promise you a rose garden.
DeleteNo. You promised me shrivelled shasta daisies, a pair of Japanese onions and a black bucket of well-rotted pig manure at a wet and windy car boot sale in Bandon.
DeleteYep. It's as good has it gets. A forty mile spin each way, ten Euros for a pitch and we might even make a tenner!😀
DeleteI have to walk round at the end of everyday and collect up the tools I have distributed about the place that day - my mattock is blue, the shovel is red, the saw, measuring tape and scrub-cutting machine are orange, spirit level is yellow. I think I'm ready for something purple.
ReplyDeleteYou are definitely practical and well organised TM. I think I will choose tools by their colour in future.
ReplyDeleteMy garden is far too small for me to lose anything in it, thankfully. But I do have a very similar sized pot, which I use when I'm pulling weeds, and sometimes veggies.
ReplyDeleteI managed to get some bulbs yesterday! I might even plant them if it stops raining.
Hi Jules. Buckets are another thing I often buy at carboot sales along with plastic gardening trugs. I bought eight builders buckets last year. They are great for weeding, feeding livestock and carrying water.
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