asidv@fbg.net wrote: > > Have enjoyed hearing about the member's favorite tools for > planting -- some, perhaps, more exotic than another. > > Ice cream forks in the garden, do I not recall, were mentioned by > someone else some many months ago. The problem there is that they > usually come with gold bowls and sterling stems -- and that > seems somewhat excessively posh. Don't worry Pat - mine are plain old sterling, no gold, and purchased at auction for $1 apiece. And only one of them is a gardening tool. Plus, my husband took one look at them and for some reason absolutely refused to use them - so they needed a useful life somewhere.;-) -- Carol Wallace Virtually Gardening http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/75 Suite 101 Home & Garden http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/gardening.html