Garden Planting Hand Tools

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Comes with a sturdy vinyl sheath and belt loop to ensure your Hori-Hori will always be on hand when you need it. Lets you dig, pry, and cut with ease, while serrated teeth along one edge provide a convenient saw for the more difficult tasks. The Joshua Roth Hori-Hori digging tool has a stainless steel blade that is very sharp and concave shaped, making it a perfect tool for scooping soil and other materials. A sturdy vinyl sheath and belt loop ensure your Hori-Hori will always be on hand when you need it. Its thick, natural wood handle provides a secure, comfortable grip to lessen the effort of the task at hand. Perfect tool for scooping soil and other materials For cutting and scraping soil, weeds, vegetables, and woody plants. The quality carbon steel construction will let you dig, pry, and cut with ease, while serrated teeth along one edge provide a convenient saw for the more difficult tasks. The tool was originally designed for excavating aged plantings high in the mountains of Japan, where enthusiasts still find prized specimens for bonsai....

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Even the best pruners need to be sharpened every now and again -- as do shovels, saws, mower blades, hoes, scissors and other gardening tools. This hand-held blade sharpener keeps the edges crisp and extends the life of many tools.

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The Garden Company, at 2218 Mission St. in Santa Cruz, has a wide selection of great gear that can make gardens a pleasure to work in. Call 429-8424. Hori-hori Weeder Knife: The Japanese Hori-hori garden tool works like a trowel for planting bulbs and

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Featuring 20 projects with photos and artistically crafted color drawings, this book will give culinary-minded gardeners plenty of ideas, including plant selection and arrangement and color schemes in gardens from as small as a pot to as large as a

Winterizing Garden Tools

Preparing your tools for winter is an important step. Hand tools should be thoroughly cleaned of all dried soil and plant parts with a wire brush or strong stream of water. Sharpen pruners, saws, hoes and spades. If the tool has moving parts,

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