Small Garden Digging Hand Tools

• Use your garden fork to open the soil outside the drip line of your shrubs and beyond, then mulch with compost. • One inch of compost used as mulch or laid on top of the soil under mulch will feed your ornamental landscape or your lawn for 1 year. • Collect bags of leaves to mulch the pathways and the naturalized areas in your garden. • Read garden books and magazines to learn more. Lisa Ziegler of The Gardeners Workshop in Newport News offers these tips for getting your yard in spring-perfect shape. You can shop her mail-order gardening site, the best I've seen ever, at www. • Get the weeds while they are small. If you put several layers of newspaper under the leaves it will prevent most weeds from growing through. • Use shredded newspaper as the carbon/brown matter in your compost bin. Cool-season weeds like chickweed, pictured here , will carpet the ground in spring.

Then put a 4 inch layer of moistened peat moss over that, followed by a moist layer of organic shredded green material, followed by another layer of peat moss, followed by a layer of moist compost or yard waste, repeat the peat moss/organic matter... Review by A. Ryan for Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding. Well folks, I’m here to tell you after a year of gardening the lasagna way that my firsthand experience shows this book is one of the wisest investments any gardener can make. As the layers break down, the earthworms will be eating the sod and breaking up the newspapers, mixing the layers together for you. First, a short outline of lasagna gardening technique: soak bw newspapers in water, then overlap sections in a single layer directly on top of premarked sod area....

Garden Q&A: Get tools ready for winter

Small hand tools can be kept with blades stuck in a bucket of oiled sand, or if they are stainless steel, hung up on a wall when they are cleaned and dried. If you take good care of your gardening tools, they will help you garden with a lot less

Mercy Corps Adds Meaning to the Holidays With Symbolic Gifts to Help the ...

A vegetable garden gift represents the seeds and tools for families to plant household gardens for healthy meals and a reliable food source. A woman's small business on another gift represents microfinance loans and training to help enterprising women

IN THE YARD: Put your gardens to bed for winter

Repairs are easier to make now that there is less need for the tools and the gardener has more time now that there are few garden chores to tend to. Digging tools such a shovels, trowels, mattocks and hoes should be thoroughly cleaned with a stiff

Down to earth: Community gardens around the city

Owairaka school is getting a Garden-to-Table project running with help from Hire-a-Hubby. Here, Simon Ikiua and Lannia Peae get stuck in. Photo / The Aucklander All over the city and beyond, Aucklanders are digging, sowing and reaping the rewards in

Virus attacking hostas

Hosta Virus X-infected plants will not recover, so it is important to remove affected plants immediately to avoid spreading the disease to other hostas in your garden. Dig up the plant with as many of the roots as possible and discard in the trash or

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