Easy planting

[jaci]

Dear Allan and Sprout, have just seen your messages and am delighted with the website address, and have ordered from it the telescopic weed knife for home and the grass whip and long-handled bulb planter for the allotment. Next I am off to get two kneelers, what a good idea because however much you try there are times when it is necessary to kneel, and such a simple idea too but I would not have thought of it. Thank you both.

[Allan]

I do hope that you haven't ordered the bulb planter from Crocus. It won't last any time at all as there isn't the strength to any tool bent up out of sheet metal even if it is all shiny and stainless.After a few uses it will start to bend, then inevitably cracks will appear the same as any cheap and nasty trowel always does. Don't use it,send it back for a refund, I'll look around, mine came from B & Q and should appear in the shops soon with the start of the bulb planting season. You need a proper forged tool, mine are painted green and the tapered tube at the bottom is welded to a square crossbar and the long vertical tube. To be honest I had to re-weld mine and make a stronger job of it but this is a straightforward procedure, any car repairer should be able to sort it out. I haven't identified the weeder yet.
Allan

[sprout]

Glad you found the links useful jaci, I find it makes gardening a joy to have the right tool for the job (son: mum, why do you have six hoes? ) Which were the two kneelers - are they the ones you wear?

[Allan]

It's kneeling pads, rather like doormats, that I use.My first pair were called Jumbo or Elephant, from a discount shop. You kneel on one then instead of getting up you move forward onto the other, bring the back one forward and so on.
Those things you strap round your knees are just a pain.
Allan

[sprout]

Thanks Allan, will keep an eye out