Charles Dowding Long Handled Wooden Ash Dibber * Made in the UK * Seed Planter Sower Sowing Tool

• Spacing plants and vegetables correctly - Use this tool both for making holes in which you can pop in plants raised in modules
• Draw shallow lines on your beds in the surface compost to guide your plantings and ensure they are in straight rows
• 60cm long, made in the UK, beautifully crafted from Ash hardwood and finished with Danish Oil
• Correct spacings marked for planting many different vegetables the right distance from one another

We’ve partnered with the legendary market gardener, writer and teacher Charles Dowding to design this beautiful hardwood long-handled Dibber. This latest model features grooves notched into the timber at precise intervals specified by Charles. These are made to the highest standard in the UK by an expert woodturning company. As you would expect for a product of this quality, the Dibber is superbly sanded and finished with the best product available, Danish Oil. We believe that this is the finest long-handled Dibber available anywhere in the World. You can use this tool both for making holes in which you can pop in plants raised in modules, also use it to draw shallow lines on your beds in the surface compost. These lines along a bed will guide your plantings and ensure they are in straight rows. A further use is spacing thanks to the circles we have turned into the wood at different intervals (explained below). On each dibber we have made circles which are to give you spacings between plants. 1 - The lowest circle is at 15 cm/6 inches from the tip, for the space between plantings of corn salad and multisown radish. 2 - The next circle is 22 cm/8.5 inches above the tip and is my standard space between all plants for salad leaves, also between clumps of spring onions, peas for shoots, spinach, chard, pak choi, coriander and many herbs. 3 - The third ring is 30 cm /11.5 inches from the tip and measures the distance between plantings of celery, multi sown beetroots and onions, first early potatoes, sweetcorn and broad beans. 4 - The final spacing is 35 cm / 13.7 inches which is used for celeriac, swedes, calabrese and Chinese cabbage. The dibber is 60cm long which gives the space between Brussels sprouts, purple sprouting broccoli and cucumbers, also tomatoes at wider spacings in order to decrease the risk of late blight. See Charles new Skills book for more about spacings.