Possible solution for fussy vegetable eaters ? (Allotmenteers might be interested too !)

[hub2dee]

I came across this whilst surfing today:

Vegiform Vegetable Shapers

They basically encase a growing vegetable and give it a shape / face etc... quite mad. Slightly horrid. Kinda intriguing, LOL.

Strange! very very strange!

Do they do a novelty penis shape????

and what the hell were you looking for when you found this ?????

They are so bizarre !

mb, I was googling "anal sex" gourd "dairy farmer" of course !

LOL

Well, really, I was looking at garden tools cos it's my wife's birthday on Thursday and I've bought her a stainless steel border fork and spade (lovely tools, LOL), and I'm after a really nice hand trowel and fork for myself !

Might they help fussy eaters ?

Hub, can I have a sneaky hi-jack and ask you where you got your stainless steel tools from? My dad's after some new ones and I'm not having an awful lot of joy finding any locally!

I went with Spear & Jackson - Neverbend or Heritage (can't remember which and can't go look cos they're hidden in the bedroom cupboard LOL and dw is next to me muching her dinner and reading Virginia Henley's 'Insatiable' - pmsl).

Anyway, they had ashwood shafts which finished in a split ash handle (all one piece of wood), very nice, with gleaming tool heads. They are smaller than the normal spade / fork (but they also do those too, I guess more $$$)

They cost £19.95 each IIRC and we got them from Aylett's Garden Centre outside North London somewhere, and I seem to remember googling them afterwards and the price seemed about right.

Looking on the Spear & Jackson website though, I can't see any stainless steel tools with wooden handles, only plastic, so maybe this was an old design ???

Currently am getting rather excited about a possible trowel from this place . They look gorgeous.

Sad, eh !!!

Those are rather nice ... not sad at all!

The Spear and Jackson ones sound like just what he's looking for - I'm struggling to find them either at local garden centres or mail order. It's the wrong season, apparently ... so presumably you can only break your fork or decide on a new hoe in the Spring.

Is he / you after a 'full size' digging fork / spade or a 'border' one ?

Have you googled "Spear and Jackson" "stainless steel" (add Neverbend or Heritage or Dairy Farmer if it helps, LOL).

Full size digging stuff, he's one of your serious allotment type chappies. I've found one place that's got some but it's too late to order from them in time for Christmas, would you believe.

Still trawling ...

Still picking your brains a bit, if you're still around ...

... my dad's also after a hoe, but hoes are one of the things I know sweet bugger all about (one of the many things that I know sweet bugger all about ...)

Do you know whether draw hoes are meant to be better for cultivation than Dutch hoes? Or is a swoe the way to go?

[slightly dim emoticon]

hi toadie, you could do worse than calling Aylett and seeing if they have 'full size' versions of their border fork and spade... maybe they could courier / post them ?

re: hoes... I know diddly squat I'm afraid... though I have seen an Oscillating hoe which looked like A Very Good Thing indeed. It cut / raked (whatever) in both PUSH and PULL directions IYSWIM by way of clever little 'swing' design... I think that Implementations place sells v. v. expensive ones... it might be a good starting point, even if just for explanations etc.

HTH. I only know pretty flowis, nottin 'bout veg, sorry.

I don't know about veg either, apart from how to cook the little blighters My dad, on the other hand, has had an allotment for nearly 50 years ... and has had his tools for almost as long.

I just wish I could remember what his hoe looks like, might have more joy that way ... thanks anyway.

My business brain is definatly thinking penis shaped ones would be a good seller .

Hub could have just come up with a new best-seller for Ann Summers!

Yeah, but circ or 'au naturel' ? That's the question, toadie...

wow. those might actually work (for ds's eating, not to give myself a rim job!!). what a great idea.

And.... a Canadian company is selling them DC ! LOL

they would [rolls eyes emoticon]

I am not getting into an argument over whether vegetables should be circumcised or not.