Old Garden Tool Collecting and Books

‘Antique Garden Tools and Accessories’ from Myra Yellin Outwater

This is selected as our Gardening Book of the Month March 2011

Old Garden Tools is a virtual museum and prop hire business that showcases a large and extensive collection of vintage and antique garden tools and gardening ephemera. Have a look at the interesting web site.

The book ‘Old Garden Tools’ from Kay N. Sanecki
A cheap paperback describing how ‘some of the oldest implements in the world are those that have been used by land cultivation. Many garden tools are universal in use, like the rake, scythe, slasher, spade and saw, and much estate management of the past, before mechanization, was dependent upon them’.

Often older tools are made better and will last longer than the newer tools available today. Collecting them preserves a heritage and they can make fine statement pieces in a garden shed or display.