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Best Gardening Tools for Allotment & Garden | Essential Equipment Guide
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Nov 13, 2024
🔧 Gardening Tools for the Allotment and Garden! Having the right tools can make all the difference — here’s what I rely on every season! 🌱🪚 In this episode, I walk you through my go-to gardening tools for allotment and garden work — from essential hand tools to helpful extras that save time and effort. Whether you're just starting out or upgrading your kit, there’s something here for everyone! What’s the one tool you couldn’t garden without? #GardeningTools #AllotmentGear #GardenEssentials #GrowYourOwn #ToolKitTour #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #GardenSetup
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episode hello everyone and welcome back
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to gardening with Ben
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well it's Tuesday now and we are on our
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last day at work before we go back to
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the allotment on Wednesday and hopefully
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get lots of work done down there and
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obviously when I'm back down at the plot
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I'll be able to talk about what I've
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been up to down there so when I'm not at
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the plot we talk about different topics
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and different subjects about
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gardening and just share with you stuff
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that we know uh what I've learned from
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over the years and what I enjoy doing
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down at the allotment and yeah I've also
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got another podcast if you've not
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listened to it already it's called
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gardening and allotment tips the link is
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in the description of this podcast so go
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and subscribe to that one and listen to
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that as well cuz there's over 40
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episodes on there for you to listen to
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and each episode we talk about something
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different a different topic to do with
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gardening and allotment uh where I just
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share different tips and advice really
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so yeah it's not really about talking
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about what I get up to on the plot but
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it's about sharing allotment and
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gardening tips and quite a lot of people
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are enjoying that one so make sure you
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head over to that one after you've
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listened to this one though and click
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subscribe and listen to some of those
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episodes as well plenty to keep you
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going on these miserable winter days
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until the springtime comes So today
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we're going to talk about gardening
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tools and allotment tools
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because there's a lot of a lot of new
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people out there that are starting to
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garden and it's hard to know what type
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of gardening tools you you need to get
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really and it can be quite expensive to
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buy gardening tools for the allotment
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and for the garden um it can be and once
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you get addicted to buying gardening
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tools then it can become expensive and
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very uh costly uh probably more than you
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actually would spend on going to the
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supermarket and purchasing the
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vegetables
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yourself but yeah uh you can certainly
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get addicted to gardening tools but if
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you're new to gardening and you've not
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got a big
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budget and you want to just get started
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in gardening the best advice I can give
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is to go to somewhere like a charity
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shop or a car boot sale a car boot sale
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is absolutely fantastic for gardening
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tools uh because when you go to these
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car boot sales and stuff like that
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people are just like trying to empty all
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the stuff out that they don't actually
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need and half of times they've been in
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the shed and they've just emptied the
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shed and took it with them to the car
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boots
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because sometimes these gardening tools
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they can be like fads uh it's like when
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a new cookery item comes out like a new
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blender type I it for everything and you
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end up purchasing it and using it for
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months and then you suddenly stop using
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it uh gardening tools sometimes can be
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like that if there's a new gardening
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tool what's come out um so more often
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than not you'll be able to pick up some
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real good Bargains at car boot sales and
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get them a lot cheaper than they would
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actually be if you were to purchase them
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from a garden center um but there's so
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many good gardening tools out there
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obviously if you're starting in alotment
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the main gardening tools which you will
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need is obviously a fork uh for digging
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over the soil a
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spade is not necessarily needed you only
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need a spade if you're going to be using
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it for digging really if you're going to
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be planting stuff uh I don't use my
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Spade much hardly at all um hardly ever
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use my Spar to be
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honest uh the fork is what what I use
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the most out everything every time when
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I'm at the alotment I'll always use my
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Fork uh
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and the other two main ones are a hand
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Trel which is like a small Spade
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obviously but in your hand and I use
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that obviously for planting bulbs for
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planting seeds planting plants and stuff
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like that so and you can pick them up
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pretty pretty well cheap uh obviously
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the more you pay for them the longer
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they will last because some are cheap
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metal and they'll just snap after a bit
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uh so you don't want sometimes you need
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to pay that little bit extra to get good
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quality tools but if you've got
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something just to last you at a year or
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so fantastic and as long as you look
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after them and keep them rust free they
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will last a long
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time and obviously the better handles on
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them will help them last longer and then
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a hand Fork as well uh I'm always with
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my hand Fork because I use that mainly
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for doing all my weeding with um
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fantastic tool and you don't always need
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your big fork to get in between plants
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your little hand fork or just get in
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between them and dig all the stones out
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dig all the little Roots out what are
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growing and you can pick them out pretty
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much easily enough um best tool ever and
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even a kitchen Fork sometimes if you're
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just wanting to uh do a little bit of
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weeding in between plants a Kitchen Fort
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comes in fantastic down at the alotment
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I've always got a kitchen Fork down
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there um I would say don't tell my
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parents but I live at live on my own now
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so it doesn't really matter uh where
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I've got the kitchen Fork
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from but yeah definitely wouldn't be
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without a kitchen FK and obviously the
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garden hoe the garden hoe is fantastic
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if you were to go around all your beds
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once a week and just give them a ho that
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you will keep on top of the week
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totally uh I always don't do manage to
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do it but I should do if you just go
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around for 10 minutes just go around
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every bed and ho around it that will
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keep on top of the weeds and you will be
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weed free all through summer trust me uh
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there used to be a chap who were retired
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on our alotment site and his onion beds
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were absolutely pristin cuz he used to
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go down and just home every day um they
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were literally fantastic you wouldn't SP
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a single weed in his beds uh it was
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something to really look at and Inspire
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to him so we've got that um and then
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obviously you can get your posher tools
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which are ones like from Wolf Garten and
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I've got a few tools myself from Wolf
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Garten and the best thing about getting
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wolf Garten tools is that once you've
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got a handle you can if people are
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wanting to give you stuff for birthdays
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or for Christmas or anniversaries you
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can just ask for a different head to fit
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onto that handle each birthday and
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Christmas and you'll never grow short of
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getting gardening tools for celebrations
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because there's about 50 different
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Garden heads to fit onto this
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um pole what you use uh to attach it to
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the handle um once you've got your
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handle it's just a case of finding the
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different heads that you need and the
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best about that is you can just take
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with you the heads to the allotment
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whenever you need them certain heads for
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the allotment because you can leave your
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handle down there cuz nobody's going to
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pinch the handle but if you were to
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leave the actual tools down there people
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would pinch them and you never want to
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leave your allotment tools on your
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allotment even if you've got a shared a
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greenhouse do not leave tools at the
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allotment because they will get pinched
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even if they're cheap it encourages
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people to come down and pinch them so
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don't leave anything valuable down there
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whatsoever uh you don't want no
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opportunities um so yeah and I've got
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this fantastic one which is it cost me
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£40 to buy this head fitted but it's
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like a
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small cultivator and it's got a hoe on
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it as well and you just grind it into
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the soil and it chops it all up and it
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gets pulls all the boots up and
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everything it's fantastic I've shared a
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video of it on my YouTube YouTube
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channel before um but yeah it's one of
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the best tools that you can get and wolf
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carton offer you about a 10e guarantee
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on your tools so if you have any that
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break they'll replace them so you can't
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get better than them so if you're
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looking at garden tools have a look
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around let me know which one's your
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favorite garden tools send me a message
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it's always good to see what other
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people think and what their favorite
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garden tools are so yeah send me a
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