Garden tools

[FarmerChick]

Hubby buys Craftsmen stuff. It has a lifetime warranty. We have taken Craftsmen stuff back after years and years and no receipt to walk out of the store with a brand new one for free.....so if you get the chance on some items, be sure there is a good warranty. that is being SS also

 

[~gd]

This is hilarious! No, I was talking about a small hand tool, not a pitch fork. The problem was that I couldn't think of what they were called when I first posted! I think I need more sleep...

You know those little hand cultivators? The things you use when you're sitting on the ground, crouched down, etc? My set is a big version of those tools, very heavy duty, but still garden hand tools. There is a trowel, a three pronged cultivator and some kind of pointed end thing that would make a hell of a weapon. The handles are all long for those kinds of garden tools, makes them all about 15" long. That's fifteen inches.

OMG! Do I get a prize for jumping to confusion? A gift certificate to Lens Crafters would be good. All that info because I thought that [] looked like []? I am so sorry.! [hide]

 

[Niele da Kine]

What size of garden are you planning or working?

When my garden was three quarters of an acre, I had a walk behind seeder, a riding mower which towed a 36" wide powered tiller, a multi-tine cultivator, various shovels and hoes and a backhoe which was just sheer over kill but a ton of fun to play with. The backhoe was mostly used for planting trees in the orchard and making roads but it was occasionally useful in the garden for turning over the soil if I didn't mind lumps left over. It wasn't a delicate tool.

When my garden was about 20' x 40', there was the garden cart, a couple of hoes, a couple of shovels, rakes, an assortment of hand tools, that multi-tine cultivator, watering hoses, etc.

Now we are on a city lot and it's a quarter acre for the entire lot including where the house is. Fortunately, it's a small house so there's still room for a garden, but it's mostly fruit trees with two raised bed gardens that are all of six by ten feet. Edible landscaping will probably produce more than the official "garden". Now the most useful tools are mostly hand tools and the garden hose. There's the handy pull cart to haul tools and buckets of bunny manure around with, but the whole scale of things is much smaller than before.

So, depending on what size of garden you're planning, that will make a huge difference of which tools will be the most useful.

I find having a garden cart or wagon of some sort to haul stuff around with is real handy almost no matter what size your garden is.

 

[Icu4dzs]

Looks like I need to learn about Elliott Coleman and his tools. I have a variety of garden tools but the one I "can't live without" is a weeder that was built by an old friend of mine who was one of the large extended family's I had in private practice when I lived in Wisconsin. It is easy to make and actually is constructed with recycled sickle mower blades. Two of these blades which are pentagonal in shape are mounted/welded into a flattened end of a piece do 3/8" square bar steel. The two blades are adjacent at the flat edges so the two cutting triangular shaped points stick out. These blades are made of good steel and will take a lot of beating. The square bar steel is placed inside a tool handle like the one you would use to re-mount a pitch fork which makes it easy to use In the standing position. Weeding with this allows you to scrape just below the surface of the soil and the weeds come out of their place easily,thus becoming "green manure" for the garden. It takes little time to weed the entire garden and after a while when no weeds have been allowed to grow and make seeds, the chore is significantly reduced.
As I said, I can't live without that because it makes the difference between having a garden and a weed patch to me!
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