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Re: Gardeners: Name a favorite gardening tool

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@Sweetbay magnoliawrote:

Hands down, my Felco pruners (I prefer the #8).  Then my Joyce Chen scissors and then my Felco 600 pruning saw.

 

Can't beat a good sharp spade, either. 

 

I think my husband would claim the knee pad.


Well you can’t garden without a knee pad!!

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@brewhahawrote:

Eduardo, my gardener


That’s a good one. Absolutely!! I have to admit my yard person plants my flowers, puts in mulch, whatever else, and DH waters and I weed.

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When I used to garden: waterproof clogs and bandaids, lol.

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I found this hoe called a stirrup hoe, years ago at a local hardware store.  It makes quick work of weeding and is especially good on my gravel xeriscape.  The "head" floats and cuts on pushing and pulling motion.  It worked better when my dad was alive to sharpen it for me every spring.

 

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@brewhaha Ohhh geez.....we think a like, LOL Smiley Very Happy

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@Kachina624 bahahaa......ohh I could read your post so differently....LOL - I'm sure I'll be banned - too funny @Kachina624

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I have that stirrip hoe too. Nice to disturb weeds. 

 

Thank you, everyone!  I’ll be checking out some of these items. 

 

Those slogger plastic shoes are good too. 

 

By the way, when I removed that shrub with the QVC spade, I pushed down on it with all my weight to pry up the root ball. I thought sure it would break, but it did not.

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Although it isn’t an actual tool, I can’t be without my kneeler with the foam pad. Just too hard to stoop and squat for extended periods of time anymore.  I also have a 2-wheeled 

Upright, wheelbarrow-type cart that I use for mulching, weeding, etc.  I have my Dad’s old wooden tool that he fashioned from a small tree branch. It looks like a rounded “7” and he used it to dig furrows in the hotbeds when he planted seeds.