Re: and tools RE: Books?
- Subject: Re: and tools RE: Books?
- From: "Merri Morgan" m*@wcgnet.net
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 08:10:45 -0500
Over 25 years ago my sister gave me a set of cast aluminum hand
tools--regular sized trowel, narrow trowel and hand fork. After all those
years of very hard usage, they are still as perfect as the day she bought
them!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Isaak" <cherylisaak@adelphia.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: and tools RE: Books?
>
> > > I can easily go
> >> through a couple of cheap shovels in a single day of gardening.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >
> >Does amending the soil come to mind? :)
> >
> >Donna
>
>
> The one tool that I regularly destroy is the gardening fork; the
> native crop of rocks bend and twist the tines. I own two right now,
> both are bent and twisted. I have been tempted several times to buy
> a high end one, but fear for its life if I do. And yes the soil is
> well amended, but between the contractor burying rocks and the
> natural uplift of glacial till........you get the picture!
>
> Hand trowels die too if they are the cheapo kind. But several years
> ago I bought some high end ones at a going out business sale -
> normally $20 each, got all three of them for $15. I also highly
> recommend the stainless steel digging trowels that Walt Nicke sells.
>
> Cheryl
>
>
> --
> Cheryl Isaak
> Londonderry, NH
> AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
> growing, stitching and reading in NH
>
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