Sneeboer Tools

Have any members bought these tools, they seem to have caught the imagination of the 'celeb' garden writers, but do real gardeners use them?

 

I used to use Black and Decker UNTIL
RUST AND BUCKET paid me loads of dosh, and I find their tools excellent

Jack McH

 

Most gardeners on here will have these tools
I mean a rake is only £120, or you can get 100' of garden twine for £20
An ashwood dibber at only £17.99 :-)
You can even get a cordon tomato support ash stick at £53

No wonder the Beebs licence fee is extortionate Oh thats not the tools thats the "STARS" fee
The tools come free, given to the STAR for free to use
One rake £120 given free, advertised for free to millions of gardeners, saves sneeboer tools millions in advertising

Even a post to a garden forum (I admit I had to look Well done mate)

Jack McHammocklashing

 

I've never heard of them either, so I googled.

They seem to have loads of stuff that I've managed to get by with, without.:D

 

I use them they are a bit pricey but I use them every day all year round with no complaints

 

de Wit is another "posh" name - I've got some, well made, handle nicely, but like pete I could manage just fine without them.

Good spade that doesn't break, has a thin blade, and can be sharpened is important to me, a good strong fork, and a bulb planter that I can stomp on (mine is a Bulldog) - I use it to plant anything in 3" / 9cm pots (which is 90% of all my veg, and annuals etc.). "Stomp, Stomp, Stomp" then knock the pots out, drop them in the holes and pour enough water in to backfill them with dirt (like planting Leeks) - much faster on my clay than trying to use a trowel, particularly with increasing arthritis in the fingers and wrists.

Good Felco secateurs, and a decent Wilkinson's Sword swoe, and after that the rest of my tools are pretty much all cheap & cheerful ... hmmm ... I do also have a decent Barrow with pheumatic trye; "decent" = being able to get the weight over the front wheel so its not hard to push.

 

most of my tools are antique/vintage .... I pay £2 each from the local recycle centre/tip .... I have some really good ones (without names), but they are very old and heavy and will last another 100 years

I used a client's garden fork recently and bent one of the prongs .... they make junk nowadays

 

good tool brands still available for purchase, but I think your comment should have been "people buy junk nowadays" :( as the old adage "buy cheap, buy twice" applies.

 

I paid a bit more for all my kit an it's been worth evert penny so far. I make sure all my rakes an hoes have good long handled cos it really does help with back ache.