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enjoy today's episode. Hi everyone, and welcome back to Gardening with Ben for
another episode. I hope you enjoyed yesterday's episode. Wow, I didn't realize
how much I were talking on for That's probably one of the longest episodes I've
done in a long time. But I hope you enjoyed it and that you
found out all about my favorite flowers, my favorite vegetables, and my favorite
fruit down at the allotment. And yeah, today's episode, I think we're
going to talk about what our favorite gardening tool is. What gardening tool can
we not live without I posted this question again on Instagram and Facebook yesterday,
so I hope that you managed to answer it, and if you have not,
please do a go over to my Instagram or Facebook and answer this question
as which is your favorite gardening tool and what can you live without down at
the allotment. Now, gardening tools can be expensive or they can be cheap,
but obviously if you buy cheap versions, they might not necessarily last and
they might just see you out for a few years. But are with somebody
like me that puts your garden tool down and then ends up looking for it
everywhere, can't find it, You go out and buy another one, and
you buy another one because you keep losing them. I must have about ten
trowels all around my allotment, and I end up buying more every single year,
end up losing them, and then I don't end up finding them until
it gets to the wintertime when all my allotment's cleared and there's no plants hiding
anything, and the ball I'm like, no where were you? How many
ever got on here? But yeah, definitely, I hope that you're like
the same as me, and it's not just me that puts stuff down and
ends up losing it on the allotment. And the same with secretares as well.
I can put secretares down and end up losing them and end up having
to buy more because the secretares they've usually rusted and the head that I can't
use them again, whereas trowels and a little forks you can use again.
They don't seem to us too bad then. But yeah, what tool can
you not live without on your allotment? Now? My favorite go to tool
on my allotment would have to be my wolf garden cultivator. And this is
an expensive tool. Now, I've got a wolf garden handle, so you
can detach it and put on different heads to what gardening job you're doing down
at the allotment. Now, this wolf garden head, I think it costs
me like forty to fifty pounds where I purchased it. And it is some
tool And basically it's a hoe and like a cultivator rotivator type thing that you
push up and down and it chops all the soil up and grinds it all
up. It also pulls out the roots and weed pretty well. It's pretty
good where it's like a proper rotivator chop all the roots up and disintegrate them,
and you'd end up with loads more roots, so be careful when using
a proper motivator. But yeah, this tends to pull up the roots and
the weeds quite well and does really well, So that has to be my
best gardening tool out there. Again, like I said, it's an expensive
tool, so I don't leave it down at the allotment. I take it
back home with me just in case, because I don't want anybody pinching that.
I don't mind leaving my forks and stuff down there. If somebody wants
to pinch them, they can pinch them, but I wouldn't leave my wolf
garden tools down there. So that has to be my favorite tool of all
time for down at the allotment. And my other tools which I can't live
without are obviously my trowel and my fork because you need them all the time.
You end up using them all the time and digging over and doing planting
with them and etc. Etc. I don't tend to use a proper spade
or a proper big fork often down at the allotment. I'll only use that
probably at the end of the year when I'm turning everything over and doing that.
But yeah, I don't tend to use them at all. Really,
I like to bend down and dig things over and pull things out by hand.
You should probably actually use a proper fork and a proper spade because it'll
get deep down and it'll get the roots out and stuff like that, but
I like to bend down and dig things over manually. Now, another favorite
tool of mine, which is the cheapest tool of all time, and it's
perfect for weeding in between your vegetables and your flower beds and stuff like that.
If you've got loads of stuff in there and you need to be careful,
the best thing that I use for weeding is a cuttlery fork. Yes,
a cuttlery fork. Now, if you've got small weeds growing in between
and stuff like that and you can't get your hoe in between, all I
use is a cuddlery fort And basically I just scraped the top of the soil
off with the cutlery fork and it gets up the weeds and the roots pretty
good. Well, it chops them off, but it stops them from growing.
And you just do that every few days. If you can't get the
hole, get them out pretty easy, just use the cutlery fork. Trust
me, it's a game changer. Don't use your best silver one as well,
just use your cheap ones. But yeah, it's to go too.
If you've never tried using a cutlery fork for weeding in between your veg try
it and it's just a case of just scraping, scraping the soil and it'll
get the little weeds out and sorted for you. And trust me, it
does work. So that is another go to tool. And then obviously I
do love a pair of Secretaris, but can anyone please recommend a pair of
secretars that don't break after about a few months. Every time I buy a
pair of Secretaries, they end up broken, the springs pop out, the
bend, the rusties. Obviously that's from me leaving them out. But I've
never had a pair of Secretaries that have lasted me at least a year.
And I'm attempted to buy a really expensive pair of Secretaries and get some with
a guarantee on and then if they don't survive, then I can ask for
a new pair. Wolvegtten are very good with their tools. They offer like
up to twenty five years guarantee on some of their tools, so if they
do break, they will replace some, which is fantastic. They're guaranteeing that
they'll just fix them and be fine and perfect. And yeah, I am
looking for decent pair of secretars. So if you've got a pair of secretars
that I've lasted, you, please do send me a message and let me
know which brand you have got, as I would love to And if there's
any companies out there to listening to this, please do get in touch,
as I would love a pair of secretars that do last. And probably the
last tool out of a lot would have to be a pair of loppers.
You can't not have a good pair of loppers down at the allotment. And
obviously every year you prune your fruit trees back at the end of the year,
you plum tree and your cherry trees, prune them around now so that
you don't get silver leaf. And yeah, I do love a good pair
of sloppers when it just slices us through that branch and it comes tumbling down
and hits you on the head like it always does with me. But yeah,
those are pretty much my favorite tools of the allotment. So my favorite
has to be my song Wolfgarten soyl Miller, which I use for digging over
my beds and motivating them and clearing them or getting them all ready for the
year ahead. And then i'd have to be a cuddlery fork, which would
cost du less than probably about fifty pence. But yeah, that has to
be one of my favorite of all time. So let me know what your
favorite tool is. Go over to my Instagram page after this podcast, all
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