Dalek Storage Solution

A question that comes up on Gardening Forums on a regular basis is regarding tools on the plot. Either a new user who has not yet acquired a shed, or someone who has a shed and it has been broken into and the tools stolen, and is now thinking of humping tools backwards and forwards to the plot and is asking for suggestions how as they don't have a car, or someone on an allotment where sheds are not allowed.

here is my solution to the problem. Dig a hole and bury half a blue barrel, B&Q builders bucket or bottom of a kitchen swing bin in the ground, then place a plastic Dalek over making sure there is enough height from the bottom of the blue barrel, builders bucket or kitchen bin and the lid of the Dalek to drop in the rake and long handled gardening tools.

Place hand tools in a B&Q builder bucket and lower into the Dalek, even better if the diameter of the container in the ground is a smaller diameter than the bottom of the Plastic Dalek, and you can offset the two slightly, then you have a shelf you can place the hand tools in the bucket on.

No body is going to look in a Dalek for tools on your allotment, especially if you have three or four Daleks in a row and it will save you humping gardening tools backwards and forwards to your plot each visit.