I've used Dramm nozzles and water wands for years....the same ones :-) I have had no issues with them pooping out after a single season.

My favorite piece of "equipment" is a 32 gallon plastic garbage can. I use it for all manner of garden clean up projects (filled it up twice this morning!) and it is lightweight enough for me to haul it to the compost pile. I also have a plastic shell wheelbarrow but it perpetually develops a flat tire and I can't drag into planting beds like I can with the garbage can.

My favorite tools are a metal hand rake I couldn't live without and my Felco pruners and pruning saw.

We also use a Felco pruner. I'm not happy with my pruning saw, it's too big. I should get a smaller one. Hard to get into tight spaces without rubbing up against other branches. We fill up large plastic garbage cans too. We have a lot of milk crates and 5 gallon buckets that we use just about every day. I love my rain barrels, I get a lot of use out of them. I have a child's size plastic rake that I always choose when I am trying to rake in a bed or around shrubs. So much easier. My water powered retracting hose reel was my favorite piece of garden equipment. I had two and they lasted maybe 10 years. They just conked out on us the summer before last and I miss them.

We used Dramm for a number of years. I might get 2 years out of one, but by the 2nd year they're leaking a little already. I tried to take mine apart to see if I could replace a part inside but it was either broken or rusted, I forget which and I couldn't find the part. It was cheap metal and not something rustproof like aluminum. I wonder if they don't intentionally make hose nozzles so that they start leaking after a year or two?

I’m on the same fail course with nozzles as well. A few years ago I bought an expensive deluxe hose that a fellow gardener had recommended, and it was so comfortable and worked so well - I thought this was it. By the end of the first year of use the latch was sticking and it was leaking all over. Aaargh! Per Gardengal, I will keep an eye out for Dramm products, but I feel destined to fail.

I'm trying a new brand this year. It was just delivered and I haven't used it yet, but I hope it works because it is the most attractive hose nozzle I've ever seen. [g] I spent $19.99 for it.

SprayTec Hose Nozzle

This is the one I bought last year in July for $11.99 and it is unuseable this spring.

Skytree

Here's a tip: get an inexpensive pack of rubber washers that fit your spray nozzle and replace as needed. Washers seem to deteriorate rapidly when exposed to hose tap water and being exposed to wide temperature changes outside and I think that's what causes the leaks. Replacing the washer(s) should eliminate this. It works for me!!

We always do that. In the photo above, see the line between the light gray band and the darker color of the main part of the Skytree? It was leaking from there, as well as around the nozzle, as well as around the thumb control. Never saw anything like it.

I'm still able to bend and crawl, so I don't yet need a cart. What I do need is power tools to help with the work, my hands can't take much anymore.

I invested in the Ego cordless hedge trimmer last fall to cut down perennials and grasses -- worked marvelously, why didn't I think of that years ago, would have saved so much time every fall.

Last week I bought a Dewalt compact cordless reciprocating saw and pruning blades for root division and tree/shrub pruning.

A Scott's long-handled grass trimmer just arrived, I need that to deal with the grass that grows around the fruit trees in the pasture, and DH is pretty bad about trimming the grass along the bed edges and it's kinda embarrassing when people come over to have beautiful beds and weedy-looking edges so I can do a quick pass with the Scott's contraption (if it works -- it's still in the box).

I still want to get power hand pruners, but I haven't yet invested in those.

I bought a battery-powered retractable hose reel from Suncast about 5 years ago, got it at Home Depot. It still works great, and if it conks out on me I'm running out to buy another one ASAP. I *hate* watering and dragging the hose, but at least with the power reel I don't have to deal with the back-end rewinding.

I have a few Dramm watering wands and nozzles and a sprinkler. They work well and feel good in the hand but they do eventually leak, replacing the washers takes care of that, depending on the point of leak. My well water clogged up some of the sprinkler holes, though -- I need to figure out how to dissolve the minerals that have built up on it.

Dramm has a lifetime guarantee. They have replaced my nozzle no questions asked when it started leaking at more spots than the washer at the bottom. They just asked for a photo so they could sent the correct one as replacement.

I got a handful of things I rather like. Got a free wagon last year that can hitch onto my lawntractor. I paid for a new set of tires and it is so nice to not have to haull by the barrow-load anymore if I don't want to. I love all my barrows, but sometimes I'm just hauling more around the yard.

Now that the old tennants are finally out of the barn- that was an ordeal, gack. Anyway, amongst the junk they left behind have been some rather helpful tools. An old golf hand-cart is now my new upright caddy/dolly for around the gardens. Something I think is supposed to be used for scraping roofs is turning out to be one of the better sidewalk scrapers I've used. They let a lot of concrete get snacked up and now I'm removing a lot of overgrow. And a whole set of stable tools, like the rakes, forks, and shovels. Those have already been priceless for helping me clean out and re-level a chunk of the stable floor. And other- I had no idea stable tools could be such handy garden tools too. There's other odds and ends out there I'll probably find handy as well.

I love my telescoping lopper and small folding hand saw. Always handy, but been cutting a gross of willow staves out of a back stand this spring so I can get some new raised beds built. I have other cutters/saws, but those two are my faves. I think it's a 2" Friskars and a 6-7?" saw from Menards.

Kinco kids work gloves. I have dainty hands and most of the time even small ladies are too long in the fingers for me. Kids gloves fit, but are usually too short in the wrist. Kinco gloves are meant to be worn by working kids, and they fit me really well. I have unlined and lined hide gloves, and a pair of lined work mitts.

Baskets. I have a collection of them that hangs off the rafter beam in the porch. I'm forever using them to haul stuff around and harvest stuff in.

Flagging tape. I like to use orange. I usually keep a roll handy for if I want to quick note something in the gardens to get back to. Like if I notice a tomato needs attention as I pass it on the way to doing other I'll flag it. Helps me remember the tomato and not get distracted from what I'm on my way to doing. Or tie it onto skewers for marking posts of stuff or spacing before I put stuff in.

I'm afraid I'm no help with nozzles. I do tank collection and water my gardens a little different.

"Dramm has a lifetime guarantee."

That is good to know! Do you just call the company direct, or do you call the store you bought it from?

I have a Gorilla cart that I use on "big job" days.

My yard is quite large and I hate having to hike back to the garage for a piece of twine, lol. I carry everything with me from twine to scissors to a knife to concentrate triclopyr to pruners, loppers, weeders, water, a magnifier and so on.

When loaded it carries my 5 gallon tool bucket with canvas organizer, a smaller organizer I use to carry a few tools while I crawl around, a low seat/stool thing, an empty garbage can for debris, a tarp for huge amounts of debris, and bags of fertilizer or whatever task I'm engaged in that day. Most of the stuff stays stored in the cart so it is never left out in the rain- it is always garaged.

I have long since given up on nozzles- I buy fairly cheap ones every two years or so and consider them semi disposable.

My hose reel holds 200 feet of hose, so it is a real workout, lol. And although I am older I look at gardening as part of my workout regimen, so I sort of embrace the effort for that as well as dragging my super heavy cart up an down the hill. I sing the Volgan Boat Song to myself every time I drag hoses!

I know I came in yesterday evening unable to stand upright and that's the sort of day I love- it means I got stuff done. I struggle to eat a bite of something and take a shower before I collapse, lol but this is the way I roll, I'm an all or nothing kind of lady.

I see I may have been imprecise - I didn't mean a cart to haul materials in, I was talking about a seat that rolls. Something like this....

@mxk3 z5b_MI Just call Dramm directly. You don't need a receipt or anything. Or didn't - I haven't needed to call them in two years.

If you have a rolling cart that has served you well for 15 years, buy another one:)

I looked into that and they don't still offer that same one. But I'll keep looking. Mine hasn't conked out all together, so I can keep using it until I find something.

A hori hori knife (aka garden knife) is always at hand since I first got one. It is not always the best tool but it is pretty good at so many things I just keep using it.

Oh, I had one of those rolley things and sold it on craigslist.

Most of what I need to do close to the ground is weeding, and some of my beds are 30 feet deep. I have to be IN the bed itself scootching around in between plants, not rolling along the border. So a rolley thing that large would crush all manner of plants even if there was room to roll around on it.

I use a very low rubbermaid stepstool with a foam pad duck taped to it that I pick up and move as I work. I've got it so down pat now that picking it up, moving over two feet, and sitting back down is one very smooth move, lol. And I can set it over things like daylily clumps, or actually in groundcover without damaging more than a few stems.

The rubbermaid stools do degrade over time- I keep two around- it's so important to me that I need a spare, lol. I am now on about my third set, you'd laugh at how old they are. Sooner or later they break from all the outdoor exposure but that's what works for me, I just buy a new set every decade or so. These and my Ken Ho weeders are the two garden tools I need to be buried with.

As far as tools I love, we started using a weed torch a couple of years ago and really love it for edging along my rock border and fence line. You do have to pay attention to dry leaves, and I always have my hose on when I use it because I'm an overplanner that way. But you can get started on weeding even when it is too cool for glysophate to work, and it's a lot like Tom Sawyer painting that fence- everyone that sees it wants to take a turn. I have to do no more than fire it up and husband is all "Let me do that, you have other stuff to do."

He's so easy, lol.

That's a cute little scooter! I don't think it would be terribly practical for me. I don't have much garden beds that would work with that well. I tend to either just sit on the ground- I use an old feed or soil bag. Or sometimes when I'm working on the containers I sit on a 5 gallon bucket or a milk crate with a stadium seat on it. My raised beds are standing height.

Cearbhaill - Sure, I can't always use the seat in a bed. But I have a large full sun bed that has street on one side, driveway on the other and walkway on a third and lawn on the fourth. So I can roll all around the edges of that bed. Many places I can use to prune the lower half of a shrub without crushing anything nearby. I have a lot of beds that have edges along a pathway too. I usually find many opportunities to use the seat. Of course, lots of times I use a kneeling pad too. It comes in handy when you are on a patio area putting together outdoor containers. You end up in just the right position and it's very comfortable.

And in my rush to correct the idea I gave with an original title of rolling 'cart' - I changed the title and posted the first photo I found of a rolling seat. The photo above, that I can't edit at this point, is not like the one I have. The one I have is a cheap plastic one like this....

I used to have a cart just like that! I liked that it had the storage compartment but the wheeling feature I did not find to be all that useful in my garden. And finally, as I got older and my poor old arthritic knees got worse, it was too close to the ground to be very flexible for my needs, so I gave it away when I moved.

A few years ago, my family gifted me with a seat/kneeler like this:

Collapsible for easy storage, it is at a much better height for my current mobility and if I do need to get down closer to ground level, the handy metal arms make it easy to hoist myself up.

I still do 75% of my gardening upright and/or bending over.....old habits die hard! 😁

I have one like that, that was also a gift to me, and it's still in the box. [g] I am fortunate not to have mobility issues at this point, maybe because I don't seem to have any joint issues, but I do have tight muscles and less energy than I'd like, so a seat extends my energy and I'm not always rolling, just sitting. Some positions, like sitting on the ground to work, really are not comfortable for me. So I guess we are all very different.

One other thing about the rolling seat I have, is that it is so lightweight, I find it no problem to carry it where I need it.

"Who uses a rolling seat?"..I do!..mine is exactly like this..

no longer available new..look at these prices!..I think I paid $25?..$30?..mine is still functional but has cracks on the bottom near the wheels..I'm surprised that it rolls without problems but it does..I roll just up or back a little to get the perfect distance when I work..

I don't have deep beds..my shrubs and perennials are in lots of small islands and long narrow borders..I don't have big open spaces with so many trees..so I sit on my seat in a path and work..

the heavy duty metal ones with molded seats would be an adjustment for me..in my mind they seem uncomfortable..but when mine breaks I'll need another seat..I might have to settle for one of those..

as mentioned I love Felco pruners too..we have an awesome collection of garden tools..with a wooded lot we need a lot of tools..

I see this one at Lowes, see link below. It was a decent price of $36.?

@ Lowes

I'll check it out!..thank you..I really couldn't function without one..

I used mine yesterday for 4 hours..the smart thing to do is buy the replacement before mine breaks..

I can't believe that a cheap plastic seat with cheap plastic wheels lasted this many years. [g] I'm actually wondering how much more time I could get out of it, if I duct tape it up like someone on the forums posted yesterday. I forget where I saw that. Mine only has a crack on the seat which doubles as a lid. I bet I could easily duct tape that up. All I have to do is get a color that matches and it won't even be noticeable. I sort of like the challenge of making something last as long as possible. We have an Electrolux vacuum that is over 40 years old and still works. lol

I can't imagine how many hours I've spent sitting on it..I'm tall (5'8) and not limber..squatting and bending over is uncomfortable..this seat is a lifesaver..

this is my second one..I still have the first..it's functional and has duct tape 😂..I treated myself to a new one and now it's wearing out..it's great that we have two..when setting stone edging we each used one..

a guess..bought the first one while living at my previous house..at least 20? years ago..maybe 25?..

No rolling seat, just a little foldable three-legged camping stool I picked up a few weeks ago. But I mentioned on another thread that I spotted a Swiss-style milking stool that may be my dream seat for weeding and planting.

Other implements I love: my hori-hori, the long-handled snake-head weeder (thing's a beast and easy to control for detail work).

Also recently bought a Korean homi that I am really enjoying for surface weeding and digging holes.

Dramm compact pruners (I have small hands and can't use most regular pruners).