As they are only seedlings at the moment and I can still get down on my hands and knees, with some chance of being able to get back up again, I will be only be using a small hand fork, a kneeler and a
trug basket. If I leave it until springtime, I might have to select a slightly larger weapon to help me win the battle.
This gorgeous traditional
trug basket has so many uses from carrying groceries or displaying flowers in the home.
The champion will win the RHS Crystal Bowl, the pbi Silver Trophy, a battery-powered Black & Decker mower, a complete irrigation kit from Hozelock, a pounds 100 seed voucher from Suttons Seeds, a
trug basket full of Classic Tools from Garden Images and the revolutionary Garden Claw, America's biggest selling tool.
So, if you have nothing better to do this morning, take a bucket or a
trug basket, a pair of secateurs and gloves if you wish and walk slowly around the garden keeping a watchful eye on any flowering plants.
The champion will also receive an engraved crystal bowl from the Royal Horticultural Society; a cordless, battery-driven lawn mower from Black & Decker worth pounds 500; a complete irrigation kit (including a Super 4- Hose Gun) from Hozelock, worth pounds 350; vouchers worth pounds 100 from Suttons Seeds; and a
trug basket full of Classic Tools from Garden Images.
(7) Bell details regional produce, such as carrots, cabbages and turnips, presented in a Sussex
trug baskets crafted with coppiced sweet chestnut from nearby woodlands
The old woodland craftsmen would use the various woods for particular purposes -ash to make gate hurdles and hay rakes,chestnut for fencing,oak for the rungs of ladders or
trug baskets, hazel or willow for the pegs to fix down thatch, and alder and sycamore for the soles of clogs.
Historically, hazel rods or poles, as the long stems are known, have had many uses, from wattle fencing and thatching in medieval times to
trug baskets and walking sticks in more modern times.
