All About Rakes!

Category: 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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eileen wrote on Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:47 am:

I must find a potato rake and see how it does with my neighbours bindweed. I'm fed up having it growing underneath our fence and trying to strangle my plants!!!

Thanks for all the useful tips Mrs G!!!

Frank wrote on Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:28 pm:

I love these gardening tips Mrs. G. The compost tea tip is one everyone should try I think.

Thanks!

cajunbelle wrote on Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:04 pm:

Thanks Mrs G. I need the potato rake also. I am glad I am not the only person who doesn't like gloves to garden. They are bothersome to me. How is your new garden coming along?

CritterPainter wrote on Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:36 pm:

I've got a potato rake on my list, thanks! Garden gloves I haven't much use for. Was working in my brother's garden and within 10 minutes, they were soaking wet and did nothing to stop rose thorns! Thanks for the great tips!