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I bought a nice Nupla trench Spade a few years back and absolutely love it. It was spendy, considering all those cheaper options, but you get what you pay for. I do A LOT of digging, so will gladly pay a premium for something that lasts. I have some fiberglass one from Home Depot that is...

Maybe this? https://www.amleo.com/leonard-full-strap-diamond-point-spade-with-straight-handle-and-rubber-foot-pad/p/AMP13DL

I love Nupla shovels. Hands down.

Thanks @Ridgerunner , stuff like this is exactly what I needed to understand. I know people mound them, but understanding that purpose is key

Good to know. Thanks. I've found my deep taproot trees also don't do well with transplanting, like Oaks, Hickory & Buckeye. There's a small time-window where you can transplant so I have to be careful when I sprout them for future planting in the tree farm

local FB group told me to check a particular feed store for seed taters, so I'll start there. Do taters respond OK to replanting? I.e. if I start them indoors in 1 gal pots do they transplant OK, or are they too fragile for that?

I compost a ton of chicken and horse manure every year, so I add that to everything. Plus I have 5 kids, so leftovers, coffee grounds and veggie cuttings amount to a 5 gal bucket each week for the compost pile. :) Love the "bulking up" term. Good suggestion on the mid-season addition of...

We have a room that's cold enough that we think we could store taters for following years :) Those look lovely. So you just grow them in the same soil beds every year then?

Forking off of Potatoes and focusing more on zone 4 (Minnesota) growing since that one was WAY more south :) I've never grown potatoes, but my wife has been mentioning them more in the last two years, so I think this spring I'll try to grow them. I'm open to whatever advice you have I'm all...

A lot of the garden centers around here pander to uh.... executive wives, if you catch my drift. I'll ask around and have even contacted the local U Extension Master Gardner for my county to ask about sources and varieties that are good for this county, so I hope that gives me some info. I've...

What's your source of seed potatoes? Just stock from the previous season? My wife has asked about growing potatoes for a few years now, but we've always had so much going on that I didn't want to have too many experiments going on, but I think this will be the year, but now I need to figure...

I've honestly never used a tiller before, so my biggest concern is to make sure I'm buying something in that sweet spot of features vs cost to make sure I'm happy for years to come. I don't want to spend too little because I don't feel I need counter rotating / reverse / X and then have to sell...

JD 826, so it is already nearly 40 years old (manufactured in 82 I believe (I think that was it when I checked the serial number a while back). I bought it out of necessity when the guy that was plowing my driveway had a medical issue and could no longer plow. So it was a $225 blower. It ran...

Yeah, good advice. I know people on a snowblower forum say to keep that JD because it will always run. But I bought a new Polaris ATV (Sportsman 850) with a plow specifically to plow the driveway and it has been a dream. Haven't busted out the snowblower once this winter. I can see myself...

That's like my JD snowblower. However, at this point I've spent more on fixing it than it's worth, so I'm kind of in that hole of an old crap car: "at what point does nickel and dime warrant a GTFO of my life?"

Heh. It's from the opening sequence of Animal House. It's the quote from the founder of Faber College Maybe that classic quote is becoming less commonly known :). I'm old :(

I believe the saying is "Knowledge is good" ;)

Why do so many tillers have that damn mechanism then? It's not like it's something I'm going to rarely use. I would assume anytime I'm taking it in or out of a shed/garage I would be using that, so it just feels like something I'd get highly irritated at fairly easily. I wish I had about $1k...

So I'm actually thinking about getting the DR PRO XLDRT. Seems like it'll get the job done. the Troy and Earthquake both have people complaining about having to take out an put back a pin on the wheel to change it to freewheel and back, which seems weird, and the DR has a lever for that...

yeah, TroyBilt and CC are manufactured in the same factory as I understand it.