Trivia Friday

[Steve @ Celtic Farm]

What is the oldest gardening tool? (Picture hint) No....Not your spouse.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

There's nothing like a bit of stick when you want to dibble a hole
In the days when cottagers got a quarter acre to grow grain they used two 'Dibbling sticks' to plant with. About five or six foot long with a heavy bullet shape on one end he would hold one in each hand and walk the rows thumping them down into the ground to make holes, wife and children would follow dropping in the seeds, one for the farmer, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow.
I read that the nomadic bush men of the Kalahari are hunter gatherers, but when they gather things like melons they always leave the best one, for the Gods, but also for the next generation's seed. If that was the first gardening then they probably harvested with a sharp stone.

 

[Sean Regan]

I remember that rhyme as,

"One for the rook,
One for the crow,
One to rot,
and one to grow."

 

[zigs]

My oldest one is probably the Pitch Fork my mate Paul gave to me

I'll take a picture of it tomorrow

 

[Sean Regan]

I don't know if it counts, but I have used it in the garden.
It's a 2lb lump hammer of, "indeterminate age."

 

[zigs]

I don't know if it counts, but I have used it in the garden.
It's a 2lb lump hammer of, "indeterminate age."

Have you got a pic of your lumphammer Mr Regan?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

a 2lb lump hammer of, "indeterminate age."

I have one of them, a very useful tool

 

[zigs]

Took a pic of the Pitchfork today...

I'm always using it, very useful tool. My mate Paul had had it Man and Boy. It's had 3 new handles and 4 new heads mind.

 

[Ruderunner]

Ah, Washington's axe.

 

[zigs]

Ah, Washington's axe.

Was he colourblind?

Tetter's antique tool collection

The short tined one apparently is called a "Dung Spud"

 

[YumYum]

Was he colourblind?

Tetter's antique tool collectionView attachment 100916

The short tined one apparently is called a "Dung Spud"

Hayfork and Taterfork.