When walking about the garden with no intent. What do have incase
Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable. So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur of the moment work ? Those tools mentioned could go on a key chain yet enable the hand to do more. Bill Place in Canada sells both. -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA Not all who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
When walking about the garden with no intent. What do have incase
On 5/3/2009 9:09 AM, Bill wrote:
Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable. So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur of the moment work ? Those tools mentioned could go on a key chain yet enable the hand to do more. Bill Place in Canada sells both. Summer being our dry season, I leave my primary tools on my patio. These are hand pruning shears, a paring knife, a bucket, and a kneeling bench. (See my http://www.rossde.com/garden/tools.html.) I like to wander through my garden daily even if I'm not planning any serious gardening tasks. If I see a weed, I pull it. If I see a faded flower, I remove it. Then, on the days when I indeed do serious gardening, much of the puttering is already done. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary |
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When walking about the garden with no intent. What do have incase
"Bill" wrote in message
Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable. So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur of the moment work ? I carry an Asian tool that is about 12 inches long and has a curved blade with a serrated edge that looks like a minature brush cutter. It can rip off small branches or dig out weeds or just cut off veg that I want to harvest or a heap of other things. Best tool I ever bought in terms of usefulness. |
When walking about the garden with no intent. What do have incase
"Jangchub" wrote in message
A key to my weed keeping is to never let it go to seed. I fail miserably, but I aspire! Snap! |
When walking about the garden with no intent. What do have incase
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message ... "Bill" wrote in message Whenever I walk around I carry a five inch pruning shear tool 5 inches long only has a 1.5 inch cutting edge. Also carry a 6 inch Japanese carpenter knife. Those are real light and my next choice a Japanese Knife Trowel but it weights too much and remains not assessable. So A long winded question is do you have a light tool that can do spur of the moment work ? I carry an Asian tool that is about 12 inches long and has a curved blade with a serrated edge that looks like a minature brush cutter. It can rip off small branches or dig out weeds or just cut off veg that I want to harvest or a heap of other things. Best tool I ever bought in terms of usefulness. Whenever I walk about my property I carry a contractor's bucket containing an array of small tools; a hand cultivator and trowel, small Fiskar's loppers (they're wonderful), a small anvil pruner, a small bow saw, a hammer, roofing nails, posted signs, and a chisel (to knock off tops of boulders that pop into my mowed areas), a water bottle, and some other items including a machete on my belt... distances are great and the bucket is also handy for bringing things back, the wind can blow trash long distances, and I have a neighbor who likes to drive golf balls into my woods, I often return with more than 50 brand new premium balls and I don't return them. Everyone needs these: http://tinyurl.com/cvpprn http://www.fiskars.com/webapp/wcs/st...&page=products |
When walking about the garden with no intent. What do have incase
Bill who putters frequently .
............. putter 3 ( Brit. potter) verb [ intrans. ] occupy oneself in a desultory but pleasant manner, doing a number of small tasks or not concentrating on anything particular : early morning is the best time of the day to putter around in the garden. ? [with adverbial of direction ] move or go in a casual, unhurried way : the duck putters on the surface of the pond. DERIVATIVES putterer noun ORIGIN late 19th cent. (originally U.S.): alteration of potter 1 . -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA Not all who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
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