Useless garden tools

This is so what happens, they work in theory but not in practice. I bought a bulb planter when I wanted to plant 200 bulbs total waste of time and money.

Bulb planter, just like Drc! It just gets jammed solid with soil. Luckily enough it wasn't as expensive as your gadget Rogi!

I bought a cheap lawn edging spade that bent when I tried to use it. Served me right! Now have some splendid shears that work like a dream.

I bought some sandals with spikes on the bottom for aerating the lawn. As soon as the spikes sink into the ground, they pull off your feet when you try to lift them up again

Oh yes I also have the bulb planter, but the things that really annoy me were gifts so I never paid, however my family did so I feel that they were cheated, one is the tool for turning over the compost, it never opens properly and the other is a tool that turns the soil, works on a ratchet, its s'posed to save having to dig with a fork or spade, advertised as taking the backache out of gardening, NOT in my garden, it would probably work on a bed full of fresh compost, lol...

Im so pleased "in a nice way" this subject has come up,
I said a few weeks ago "gardening programs on the tv" are way out of date for the modern day gardener,
I also said we need a tool section to tell us and to show us all the new stuff on the market and a tried & tested part to let us know whats good & whats rubbish,

Reading your rip of gardening tools you can see where im coming from.

My oh (who weeds the lawn) uses the vee thing you mention with a long handle so no crawling on hands & knees.......

Some interesting comments coming. Thank you all for taking interest in my blog.

@ Pamg. I don´t mind other weeds in my lawn.. a lot of them have pretty flowers on them and are good for all the insects that visit them and have a good feed, but I detest dandelions taking it over...maybe just a thing I have about dandelions...in the "wild" part of my garden I leave them until they start to seed...then they get pulled out.

Pam I have the V-thing but I find my trusty old knife leaves behind a smaller hole, lol...

Its quite a big lawn and the vee works on thistles too Lincs, the lawn used to be a field pre 2nd world war I think, you can still see ridge and furrow in places

There are so many garden(ing) gadgets on the market which appeal to non-gardeners and are often bought as gifts for their gardening friends but which are a con/waste of money in my opinion. My youngsters gave me a tool for turning over the soil ....'no more back-breaking digging for you', they said. It would actually break my back to use it because it requires a twisting motion once inserted into the soil, useless on anything other sand (I have clay)!
Paper pot makers! Attractive idea but they only make one size. Just as easy to make paper pots using clay or plastic pots (one inside the other) as moulds.
Many tools, often cheap, are sold that aren't up to the job, being made of materials that are just too weak to cope with the job they are designed for. Plastic handles for example, which become brittle and crack in time, and tools made of thin metal which bend as soon as any pressure is put on them.

Hi Rogi ..

There's a commercial ad. on British TV featuring a long-handled weed remover tool with sharp features at the end ...

In the advert, when one person lends the tool to another, standing some distance away, he absolutely chucks the tool at him, for the other person to catch ...

I cringe each time I see it .... no health and safety there ...

Hallo...yes I have seen that advert on youtube....

I feel that if I watch the ad often enough, one time he's going to spear his friend... javelin style ;o)

The impression I got from the ad is to hand the tool to a friend who's daft enough to do your weeding for you........

Xela the tool you have described sounds just like the one I was on about, its very heavy and I think would be ok if I was a 7ft weightlifter, as I' m only 5ft and a bit its damn near impossible for me, my youngest has very fine soil but is even smaller than me so a bit insulting for me to donate to her....
I do use my little papermaker every year, I wonder if they do different sizes, ....

I'm sorry your new tool didn't live up to it's expectations, but you would not have any way of knowing that until you actually bought it.

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