Garden Trivia Friday

[Steve @ Celtic Farm]

Garden trivia Friday? "Strange Garden Tool Names " is the category. Have you ever heard of a 'Widger', a 'Pooter', a 'Dibble', or a 'Mattock'?

 

[YumYum]

I have and use a mattock? I have yet to wear it out.

 

[Ruderunner]

I've got a Dibble, haven't used it in years though.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

A Widger is a small gardening tool used to loosen soil.

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[Oliver Buckle]

Pooter I know from my brother and father, who were biologists, as a way of picking up insects by suction without harming them or sucking them into your mouth (Yech), don't know if that's a garden tool exactly, maybe it is something else as well.
Dibble I would guess to be what I call a dibbler, an old handle from a fork or spade usually, cut short and made pointed for making holes for planting. Historically in East Anglia they used 'dibbling sticks', two long sticks with a bullet shaped metal head held one in each hand and banged into the ground whilst walking along to make holes for the person following to plant wheat seed in.
Widger I hadn't heard before, mattock I think of as a 'common or garden' name for what Americans seem to call a 'heavy hoe'.

 

[Mr_Yan]

Mattock - have a small single hand one that is great for raised beds. I wore out and broke my fullsize one pulling up concrete and using it to break up ice in a driveway.

Dibble - great for setting out onion starts and other small seedlings.

Looked up the other two and I generally use a knife or stick for that operation.