Desert Island Gardening Tools
plant pauper
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There you are and your boat has sunk. 
However...you've managed to grab your three favourite/most useful garden tools. 
What did you grab and why?
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plant pauper
Posts: 6,234
plant pauper
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MY SEVENTY YEAR OLD STAINLESS STEEL BORDER SPADE - IT COULD DOUBLE AS A FRYING PAN.
MY FELCO SECATEURS - THEY COULD DOUBLE AS NAIL CLIPPERS.
MY EXTENDABLE APPLE PICKER. IT COULD BE A HAT, A FISHING NET AND I COULD WAVE IT AROUND TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF A PASSING SHIP.
Spade - so many uses
Secateurs - you're always going to need to cut stuff
Wheelbarrow - to help my back last longer
Hand fork- can't do anything in the garden without it - weeding, planting, harvesting, scratching my nose......
Secateurs - at least I can gather some kindling to get the fire going
Mattock - more useful than a spade in uncultivated ground - especially stony ground or where there are lots of tree roots. Can also be used to both dispatch and bury pirates and cannibals
Doesn't always end up as something worse”
Gosh, raisingirl, you're a plucky one, I would hide!
Secateurs, for the same reasons as above.
Something tall, such as a rake, to attach a piece of clothing to wave if a ship should appear, also for knocking down coconuts.
Am tempted by a small fork or trowel as I use them so much but don't know what I'd use them for with no seeds. So will go with wheelbarrow for gathering wood for fire (assuming I could light it) or stuff for making a shelter, or coconuts or fresh water from the inland stream (hope there is one or I wouldn't last long).
surely we'd all need 2 pairs of secatuers? Don't we always lose one mid job and find it a week later?
No - I keep mine in my back pocket which means I always find them when I sit down for a cup of tea
Doesn't always end up as something worse”
As any ex-infantry man knows a trenching tool, for calls of nature, digging a slit trench in case Pirates bombard you and hand to hand if they try landing. Also shears for cutting new grass skirts for any stray maidens who may arrive and a Hoe for singing. Hey Hoe hey hoe its off to work I go.
Frank.
Mm, although on the other hand I can be 'brave at a distance' safe in the knowledge you'd never get me on a boat in the first place
Doesn't always end up as something worse”
I basic hand weeder with two wide prongs - not a new-fangled tricksy one
2, a narrowish pointy trowel
3 sharp secateurs