Garden Tools And Their Uses

Coffee Cozy: Cut down on wasted cardboard coffee sleeves by making your very own denim coffee cozy from an old pair of pants. [via Doctor Popular ]. Knee Pads: Gardening is a great hobby, but sometimes digging around in the dirt all day can be tiring on the knees.   [via Martha Stewart ]. Patching Other Jeans: Don't let a small tear force you to toss an otherwise perfectly good pair of jeans. Cut patches from an old pair to fix up a current pair of pants. Transform an old pair of jeans into a padded mat to spare your tired limbs while you garden. Use a bit of fabric glue to adhere the patch, and just like that, your pants have been fixed. This handy guide will show you how to make a handsome knee pad, but for a quick and easy alternative that requires no sewing, simply cut off one pant leg, stuff it full of something soft and tie off each end with a zip tie.

The potato hook, which looks like a five-tined digging fork shaped like a grappling hook, is a clumsy tool, but there are a number of three and five-tined cultivators designed for stirring the soil by dragging while walking backward. and in order to keep the surface clear of weeds a hoe or scuffle hoe must be used. To make drills insert the corner of the hoe in the soil with the edge resting on a line to keep the drill straight and pull the hoe toward you with easy strokes. It has a 6-inch square blade which can be used to make drills for large seeds like corn and beans as well as hoeing. The scuffle hoe with a solid or open blade is a great favorite among European gardeners. Although excellent, it is primarily a hoeing tool. For a variety of uses you will find the nurseryman’s model the best. The old solid, heavy hoe is now replaced by others ranging from 2-1/2 to 7 inches in width. The hoe and cultivator have gone through the most changes....

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