On 7/2/2016 12:09 PM, songbird wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:
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I use a fork ... no , not the kind you eat with , a big 4 tine made of
cast metal . Loosens the soil so you can sift thru it to get the bulbs out .

i broke one of those here the first 5 minutes
i was trying to dig potatoes out of the clay.
we don't bother growing them any more (Ma hates
the bugs and we don't eat that many of them
anyways).

luckily most of the gardens i grow veggies in
have improved a great deal since those early years.

how's the addition going?


songbird

We have a spading fork made of top steel that we bought probably 30
years ago. Of course we used it in good soil so no danger of breaking.
We use it infrequently here and that's only in the heavily amended beds
along the back fence.

George