Re: GARDENING TOOLS-the Sharpshooter
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: GARDENING TOOLS-the Sharpshooter
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:00:37 -0600 (CST)
> I have a "sharpshooter" that was amoung my father's gardening tools. It's
> about 5" wide and about 14 inches long. I've found it excellent for digging
> postholes. Doing it faster than anything short of a power auger. :)
> RobertAt 08:41 PM 3/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Your Sharpshooter spade sounds a lot like a poachers spade. Maybe 5
> >inches wide and a foot long? It's a wonder for planting individual bulbs
> >or digging things out in a tight spot or where there's lots of roots -
> >like under a pine tree!
We call this a posthole digger ;-) I guess no one much poaches PLANTS
around here, only animals. We "rustle" roses. ;-)
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Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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