Dibber: A tool for making holes in the soil for individual seeds, bulbs or plants. It is often made from the top 6 to 9 ins of the handle of a broken garden fork or spade giving a useful handle and then the other end is rounded off.
A hand dibber is a good fertilizing tool for feeding naturalized bulbs once they've sent up first sprouts. It gets the fertilizer down to the root zone.
Using a finger or dibber make a small hole in a pot of potting compost, still holding the leaf, work the roots into the hole, gently firming the soil around the stem of the seedling.
To transplant use a dibber or small pointed stick in one hand to make the hole in the soil. Pick up the seedling by the leaf (not by its stem) and position it carefully. Gently firm the soil around the roots with the dibber.
Carefully loosen the compost, then gently hold a leaf and lift, while levering from beneath the roots with a dibber.
Fill a 7.5cm pot with multipurpose compost, level and tap to settle.
A traditional way to plant spring cabbages is with a dibber; make a hole with the dibber for the plant, then insert the dibber again to one side and press the soil against the roots. Water thoroughly afterwards.
Marrows, courgettes and squashes ...
Smaller bulbs can be easily planted at the right depth with a small trowel, or a dibber. Generally speaking, your bulbs should be planted at least twice as deep as the height of the bulb.
(I told you to use the pry bar to lever out those rocks.) Sharpen the point just below the D handle and you now have a dibbler, or dibber, just the tool for planting bulbs! ...
The people who worked these gardens used what materials they had at hand: dibbers (used to push seeds into the earth), rakes, spades and whatever other tools could be made from simple lengths of wood.
Also included are tags, permanent markers, empty envelopes for seed collecting and sharing, scotch tape for resealing opened packets, and a small plastic dibbler aka dibber aka dibble for quick sowing.
 See also: Seedling, Soil, Plant, Planting, Grow
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