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Message 1.Ìý
Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Hi All,
Well from the few questions being asked tonight, All must be going well on the gardening topics, "perhaps everyone's learning like hell and dont have any good questions ????????
And so i thought i'd ask "ALL" a question ,,??
But first the reason why im asking,
Today we had a couple visit us "ive told you before about this couple, they can't see for the life of each other why anyone wants to grow anything when you can fall out of bed and go buy veg,
And when it comes to fresh flowers on the table's in nice vases ?????
Whats wrong with plastic "they ask me" you dont feed them, and they last for years & years,
But the same couple always enjoy a salad with us at mid day & the free veg'ee bag to take home with them. (You've heard of doggy bags? well ive invented a new one veg'ee bag)
The last time they visited us i was doing my spider walk with the sticks "after the hip opp" and because im a man
(what is a man i hear you say)
He's a little boy that got bigger,
and inspite of being told to take it easy for the next 3 months (This little boy thing takes over and you'll try just a little job one day and by the time 6 or 7 weeks have gone your back to the doing anything idea's)
Until you visit the hospital for the mid way back to full health visit and when asked if your talking life easy?
Your like that nodding dog on the back shelf of the car "Oh yes doctor, "
Well these friends after seeing me crawling around the house decided to buy a set of gardening hand tools and plant the lettuce i gave them and the tomatoe plants in their little jungle,**
Well today with a face that looked like thunder i was told that out of 3 new hand tools, my friend was in only 3 weeks down to one hand tool.
Did the other two fall apart????????????? NO
He lost them in his jungle,
He put them down and has'nt seen them since
But he'll know these two hand tools and if he see's them on any car boot sale
(brocante) He'll know them because they have green handle's.
I think it's a daft colour for anything in the garden tool dept, as soon as you put it down it blends into the greenery and its lost.
Question.
WHAT COLOUR IS BEST FOR GARDEN TOOLS???????????????
Thank you,
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Message 2
Posted by Twiggy (U3854938) on Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Mine would definitely be pink, Punpun. Perhaps that's the little girl in me! Do any of us ever really grow up?
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Message 3
Posted by cufcskim (U14483815) on Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Question.
WHAT COLOUR IS BEST FOR GARDEN TOOLS?Ìý
It matters not one jot, substance over style.
Give me a tool that's comfortable and does it's job properly. -
Message 4
Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Question.
WHAT COLOUR IS BEST FOR GARDEN TOOLS?Ìý
It matters not one jot, substance over style.
Give me a tool that's comfortable and does it's job properly.Ìý Hi cufcskim,
Hope your well and enjoying the forum,
I think you may be missing the point, we're not talking about the way any tools are made or the shape of a tool,
It's more of what stands out when you put it down in the borders, etc so it can be seen a little easier.
So far we've had pink as a colour that would stand out, and to be honest it may well be a very good solution,
My other half thinks two colours such as pink & white and i did think this was also an good idea until she said the pink would go with the loo paper and the white with her bath towels, (she never was much of a gardener)
So try again and lets see what you come up with. -
Message 5
Posted by cufcskim (U14483815) on Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Hmmmm, what colour to paint that fork you can't spot in the border.....
I'll go with.................new glasses, matt finish. -
Message 6
Posted by Lisa (U14598429) on Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Mine would definitely be pink, Punpun. Perhaps that's the little girl in me! Do any of us ever really grow up? Ìý Mine are pink, too. As is my watering can.
It must be a girl thing. -
Message 7
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Friday, 3rd June 2011
Good morning sir,
I would go for a fluorescent yellow with solar light built in,however this didn't stop me from burying a yellow dibber only to find it 5 years later- but I think all those people running around with yellow jackets cant be wrong!!
Geoff
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Message 8
Posted by Twiggy (U3854938) on Friday, 3rd June 2011
No fluorescent yellow in my garden Geoff!!! Everything is various shades of pink, purple and white - including me!!
Good to hear I have been seconded Lisa and, of course, your wife has impeccable taste Punpun. Well, in most things!! -
Message 9
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Friday, 3rd June 2011
I have had a pair of secateurs for 15 years or more solely because they are red handed.
If the tool is small, get red. -
Message 10
Posted by Paul N (U6451125) on Friday, 3rd June 2011
Slightly off topic but my wife takes my gardening tools and leaves them deserted in the garden, sometimes for days. Often covered in mud - she has an odd way of planting stuff - I retrieve the tools, clean them up, wipe them over with linseed oil and hide them. I've bought her her own hand tools which she quickly breaks in the rock hard ground as she won't accept advice to break the ground up with a border fork first. Aaah that feels better.
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Message 11
Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Friday, 3rd June 2011
Slightly off topic but my wife takes my gardening tools and leaves them deserted in the garden, sometimes for days. Often covered in mud - she has an odd way of planting stuff - I retrieve the tools, clean them up, wipe them over with linseed oil and hide them. I've bought her her own hand tools which she quickly breaks in the rock hard ground as she won't accept advice to break the ground up with a border fork first. Aaah that feels better.Ìý Hi Paul,
Your not alone "mate" my wife was caught talking to herself (by me) and she swore she was talking on our mobile phone,
Then she went indoors and i continued weeding the border only to near jump out of my skin when this sound came from under the soil, It was the mobile phone she's planted along with the plants she'd bought,
I picked the phone up cleaned it and pressed the button and said hello!
My wife said oh you've found it then. ( That phone was black & white spots) -
Message 12
Posted by Twiggy (U3854938) on Friday, 3rd June 2011
Aah, Paul and Punpun. You are treading on dangerous ground! Neither wife is able to defend herself. The only thing I have ever 'lost' in my garden is a pair of glasses as I have the habit of putting them on the top of my head.
Ladies unite!! -
Message 13
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Friday, 3rd June 2011
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Message 14
Posted by madeleineR (U14451255) on Saturday, 4th June 2011
Hi punpun
Over the last few years if I have bought a new gardening tool, I have put a ring of bright yellow plastic insulating tape around the handle so that it helps me to see if / where I have left them in the garden.
It helps a bit but is not 100% perfect
regards
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Message 15
Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Sunday, 5th June 2011
Not sure if a bright colour would help locate hand tools as I've three pairs of secertares, two of which haven't been seen this year, one of these has red handles.
I'm convinced they are somewhere in the shed
I'd suggest a remote alarm is fitted into the handles of small garden tools and activated with a hand held gadget.Of course there would then be the problem of not losing the hand held gadget. -
Message 16
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Sunday, 5th June 2011
Not sure if a bright colour would help locate hand tools as I've three pairs of secertares, two of which haven't been seen this year, one of these has red handles.
I'm convinced they are somewhere in the shed
I'd suggest a remote alarm is fitted into the handles of small garden tools and activated with a hand held gadget.Of course there would then be the problem of not losing the hand held gadget. Ìý Thats why they should have solar lights built into the handle-I'm taking my idea Dragon's Den- by this time next year I'll be a millionaire.
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Message 17
Posted by Twiggy (U3854938) on Sunday, 5th June 2011
Not if they are left lying under a bush with no sun you won't! Best stick to your day job for now.
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Message 18
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Sunday, 5th June 2011
never thought of that-and I've let everybody know my money spinner and it will get pinched-just not my day -
Message 19
Posted by figrat (U3054696) on Sunday, 5th June 2011
My Felco secateurs survived unscathed in my compost bin for 9 months. I don't think fluorescent tape would have helped...
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Message 20
Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Sunday, 5th June 2011
A bit off topic but I lost my new car in the car park at Asda the other day, I knew roughly where it was parked and if it was pink would have found it quickly
but there were about four cars, same make and colour parked together and as I've not memorised the number plate yet needed the remote unlocking gadget to locate it, it lit up like a dream.
So good idea - thedogcody - but prehaps battery operated and a search in the dark. Although that won't help if tools have been lost under a pile of soil -
Message 21
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Monday, 6th June 2011
A bit off topic but I lost my new car in the car park at Asda the other day, I knew roughly where it was parked and if it was pink would have found it quickly
but there were about four cars, same make and colour parked together and as I've not memorised the number plate yet needed the remote unlocking gadget to locate it, it lit up like a dream.
So good idea - thedogcody - but prehaps battery operated and a search in the dark. Although that won't help if tools have been lost under a pile of soil
Ìý Do you remember those key-rings you could buy a few years ago and you clapped tour hands and the keyring made a noise?
So here goes the ultimate tool for those who can't find them-fluorescent yellow , red,and pink stripes with a solar light and keyring clappy thing built in - you will be able to see and hear them night or day.
They are already in production and I shall be selling them in Asda car-park this Sat- just come and find me
Geoff. -
Message 22
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Monday, 6th June 2011
I got in to my car once in a car park after unlocking it, put my key in the ignition and then discovered to my surprise that somebody had put things in it, which were not mine, and not to my knowledge.
I pondered for a bit, got out looked at the registration number to see if i was dreaming, and again discovered that the car was not mine at all, but an identical one with the same keys and the same age parked a few metres away. I only knew this because i suddenly noticed the other car, which was mine! -
Message 23
Posted by Twiggy (U3854938) on Monday, 6th June 2011
I do like this thread. Lots of silly humour.
Well done Geoff. You appear to have covered all points. The only one I have issue with is the key thingy. I remember my kids all having one of these and the only one who every knew where they had left it was my daughter. Two sons were forever asking if I had seen where they put it. Not saying anything......but
Loved your car fiasco Zoomer. Gave me a good laugh.
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