Give the yard and entrance space of your own home the proper landscape with shrubs, flowers in addition to trees. Lastly, use the opportunity of this mission to properly clear and store any backyard gear and tools you do decide to maintain, so that all the pieces will stay secure over the course of the winter and be prepared to be used once more when it is time.
It was a list of ideas for every effectively outfitted peasant’s shed…broad bladed lengthy knives, a spade and a shovel, a seed box, a billhook for coping with brambles, 2 baskets, a lure for vermin and a wheelbarrow ….. and finally a snare for wolves!
If you wish to know extra then there are a number of books worth looking at: Kay Sanecki’s Outdated Garden Instruments in the Shire sequence is a good quick primary introduction, so is the catalogue of the 1992 Garden Museum exhibition Historic Garden Tools by Christopher Thacker and Francesca Greenoak.
John Evelyn certainly had a batterie de jardin of his own – or fairly for his gardener – and he describes and illustrates more than 70 tools and pieces of kit in Elysium Britannicum, together with wheelbarows and water barrows, rakes of ‘severall sizes and finesses’, and a veritable array of spades, trowels, hoes, shears and pruning to to say noting of different backyard necessities similar to flower plots, instances and measuring tools.
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