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Chantal

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:11 pm
by Jenny Green
Thanks for your post about the child sized tools at Aldi. I got a little broom, shovel and rake for the little man. Here's to a summer of 'helping'. :D

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:15 pm
by Chantal
Nice one, hope you both enjoy them.

kids tools

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:25 pm
by runnner
i bought some similar items for my two boys a while back and after being played with for a short time they were soon discarded. i tied the rake onto an old broom handle and find it an extremely useful tool in its own right.

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:52 pm
by vivie veg
BEWARE OF CHILD LABOUR!

Having purchased similar goods for my daughter (then aged 3) I managed to spend a few hours on a Saturday afternoon in the garden, but when I'd finished weeding etc, I found that my daughter had dug a nice hole in the gravel path and redistributed it to the brick path...and it wasn't normal bricks but 'Stable bricks' with a diamond pattern so that urine can soak away..however these groves trapped the gravel beautifully! Also gravel had been put inside the hole which took the rotory clothes drier ...impossible to get out!

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:00 am
by Jenny Green
Lol! Yes, the little man has helpfully uprooted cabbage seedlings and particularly enjoys redistributing the beds over the bark chip path. But the choice between having a 'helper' and getting nothing done at all is no choice!
I would also like to cultivate (ha ha) his enthusiasm for gardening, even if it is at the expense of a few disasters.

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:50 pm
by pigletwillie
All the misfires will be worth it Jenny when he is a strapping teenager who does your winter digging for you.

Washing line gravel

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:28 am
by peter
Viv, try a vacuum cleaner with a narrow crevice attachment, if it doesn't "bag it", it should work as a pickup tool. :D

Post hole Att. Viv.

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:39 am
by Johnboy
Hi Viv,
Had a similar experience and used a fine jet on the hose and if you are prepared to get slightly damp or to tell the truth absolutely soaked you shoud be able to jet the stones out.

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:02 pm
by nog
long medical tweezers and a lot of time.