All About Rakes!
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Organic Tips for your Garden | Posted:
Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:37 am
Whether or not you live near the seashore, a short handled clam rake can be perfect for cultivating a garden bed.
The rake's slender tines penetrate the ground deeply, bringing up rhizomes of grasses and other invasive weeds in large pieces that are easy to pick out of the soil.
Are you bothered by ' bindweed?'.
It grows just about everywhere and is a gardener's nightmare.
If you can find a potato rake it is the finest bindweed removal tool in the business!!
This cross between a hoe and a pitchfork has three very sharp tines that easily snare bindweed and makes it easy for disposal. It can also be used for dragging piles of thorny clippings and pulling compost out of a bin.
Compost tea bag.
When you open your next bag of onions, untie the string gathered at the top rather than ripping through the netting.
Fill the bag with compost, retie it, and place it in a bucket of water. Allow it to steep for a week or more, then use the liquid to water plants and give them a fertilizer boost!
Cooking Spray.
Squirt your hands with cooking spray before you go into the garden. It will make your hands easier to clean, especially if like me, you don't wear garden gloves.
It will make it easier to wash up and even helps keep them cleaner , if you do wear garden gloves.
Till next time 'Mrs G'
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