Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club | Sally Nash | Activity https://vhgmc.co.uk/members/booshe-bond/activity/ Activity feed for Sally Nash. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:05:28 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 bb7c00f039d0ed8e7c8c6fdb7840f297 Sally Nash replied to the topic Douglas interplant hoe and gapper in the forum Help and information https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/douglas-interplant-hoe-and-gapper/#post-41407 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:56:33 +0000 Thank you for taking the time to give me the extra information…as a farmer’s daughter I was the youngster “employed” to do these jobs 😂. This definitely would have made hoeing the sugar beet easier than hand hoeing. I can just imagine my Dad’s face if I turn up saying I want to plant some sugar beet in the veg plot to try it out 😊.

]]> d4329bc229e94f5ba50daf020735f3a5 Sally Nash replied to the topic Douglas interplant hoe and gapper in the forum Help and information https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/douglas-interplant-hoe-and-gapper/#post-41406 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:52:17 +0000 Hi Charlie
Thank you for the explanation, it has helped firm up the image in our heads. Despite my Dad farming his whole life, he had never come across anything like this before. I’m kinda wishing we’d had one when I was growing up…it would have saved a lot of the hand hoeing that I did over the years (including copious fields of sugar beet) 😂.

]]> 46a69aa3eea893326b8abad159432c6e Sally Nash started the topic Douglas interplant hoe and gapper in the forum Help and information https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/douglas-interplant-hoe-and-gapper/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:55:36 +0000 My Dad and I have renovated this wonderful piece of machinery after it was gifted to us in a terrible state. Despite trying to research it we have drawn a blank.

Can anyone please tell us anything about either the company who made it, when the hoes were manufactured and/or what exactly it was used for and who may have used it?

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