Nyboy
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Only a gardener would understand
What Did You Do In The Garden?
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Beekissed
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Yes!!! I got it yesterday at my son's house and I immediately started working out on the Bermuda grass in his garden that I had been trying to chop out, till up, pull out for the past several weeks. I was so euphoric over how easily this hoe handled that stuff that I couldn't stop looking at it, holding it, feeling the blade, etc.
My son made a comment on how he never saw anyone act like that over a garden hoe and how he's never acted like that over anything...then I had to remind him of how long he had discussed his new fishing pole that day, how many times he had picked it up and fooled around with it, made me watch a video on muskie fishing, etc.
We all have our little loves and gardening just happens to be one of mine.
Beekissed
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Transplanted some marigolds out of the garden and into flower beds around the front porch, planted the sweet onions, and planted those three little asparagus plants. So easy to plant after the soaking rains we've been having...everything is sopping wet and easy to dig into.
Sure hope these sweet onions actually make this year....I have high hopes!
Sure hope these sweet onions actually make this year....I have high hopes!
PennyJo
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like that hoe @Beekissed may want to look at one myself got the roses cleaned out from the grass growing up in them only got 4 thorns
2 that bled real good nice and clean...
2 that bled real good nice and clean...
Beekissed
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I think it's a great investment in your gardening. These things are hand made out of old farming implements and have a solid ash handle. They are at just the right angle for ease of use and less back strain. And, man, do they do the job!!!
Here's another vid of someone using one, though he hardly has any weeds to speak of, he does demonstrate how the hoe is also used to lay out a row and cover the seeds.
Here's another vid of someone using one, though he hardly has any weeds to speak of, he does demonstrate how the hoe is also used to lay out a row and cover the seeds.
ducks4you
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Easter Bunny, Fiskers hand tools:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ADG4-FStL._SY355_.jpg
Mother's Day gift:
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/1000/3a/3af33983-1008-40b9-a71f-629cc64054c5_1000.jpg
Somebody gave me a free hand trowel...it bent the first time I used it!!
I could have used my hand instead. I like how these new hand tools are heavy, stainless steel. Btw, stainless steel is steel mixed with and covered by non corrosive metals:
http://www.bssa.org.uk/about_stainless_steel.php
"Live After People"
http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people
did a show which included the St. Louis arch, made of stainless steel, and that without matinenance the coating will erode with weathering and, in time, rust and fall apart. It has an arch like a Roman arch, where the other pieces push against the center top to hold it all together.
LOVE SCIENCE!!!!!!!
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ADG4-FStL._SY355_.jpg
Mother's Day gift:
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/1000/3a/3af33983-1008-40b9-a71f-629cc64054c5_1000.jpg
Somebody gave me a free hand trowel...it bent the first time I used it!!
I could have used my hand instead. I like how these new hand tools are heavy, stainless steel. Btw, stainless steel is steel mixed with and covered by non corrosive metals:http://www.bssa.org.uk/about_stainless_steel.php
"Live After People"
http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people
did a show which included the St. Louis arch, made of stainless steel, and that without matinenance the coating will erode with weathering and, in time, rust and fall apart. It has an arch like a Roman arch, where the other pieces push against the center top to hold it all together.
LOVE SCIENCE!!!!!!!
thistlebloom
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You should make some kind of commission on these Bee. I'm sold, just ordered one.
thistlebloom
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Yesterday Kid#1 came down and took 4 trees down for us. One of them I hated to lose, it was a nice Ponderosa pine, but it was shading the southern end of the garden too much.
I also stripped the horses stall from all the winter bedding and spread it around my young white pines out front.
Put the water on the blueberries, it's kind of hard to think of watering already since it seems like the snow just finally melted, but the shallow rooted plants are starting to need it. It was hot yesterday, not quite acclimated to it so I needed extra popsicles.
I also stripped the horses stall from all the winter bedding and spread it around my young white pines out front.
Put the water on the blueberries, it's kind of hard to think of watering already since it seems like the snow just finally melted, but the shallow rooted plants are starting to need it. It was hot yesterday, not quite acclimated to it so I needed extra popsicles.
ducks4you
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This morning I put out my Fly Predators. Think I'll order an extra 10K package, since I started late this year.
I also determined that my vegetation killer isn't making a Dent on the burdock, so I read up and will be buying https://www.ruralking.com/agristar-2-4-d-amine-1-gallon.html
Don't really mind bc the stuff that I have is killing most of the other weeds I have and is knocking out the volunteer tree of paradise that likes to grow where I garden.
Nice thing, I can store this stuff bc it won't go bad, at least in a year.
One more thing...I am covering the weeds with stall waste, new and old AFTER I SPRAY and I have to strip my shelter, so that the horses won't be tempted to nibble ANYWHERE that I spray. If JUST covering them would smother the burdock I wouldn't need to buy a nasty poison, but there are those times that try gardener's souls.
I also determined that my vegetation killer isn't making a Dent on the burdock, so I read up and will be buying https://www.ruralking.com/agristar-2-4-d-amine-1-gallon.html
Don't really mind bc the stuff that I have is killing most of the other weeds I have and is knocking out the volunteer tree of paradise that likes to grow where I garden.
Nice thing, I can store this stuff bc it won't go bad, at least in a year.
One more thing...I am covering the weeds with stall waste, new and old AFTER I SPRAY and I have to strip my shelter, so that the horses won't be tempted to nibble ANYWHERE that I spray. If JUST covering them would smother the burdock I wouldn't need to buy a nasty poison, but there are those times that try gardener's souls.
