Storing Garden Tools

One of my favorite garden tools is an iced tea spoon that stays on my potting bench. Several of you wrote to say you've belonged to the bucket fan club for years and even more reported they were bucket-less and had promptly gone out and bought one. I also asked for your favorite home-grown or makeshift garden tools, and you were kind enough to pass along some wonderful tips. One end of each length is trimmed at a 45-degree angle, making it easy to poke in the ground after she's written the plant's name on the slat with a permanent marker. Besides, it seems a right Southern thing to do. ". Still another tucks a plastic newspaper bag into her pocket when she goes into the garden. A reader, commenting on my use of a tin can "scoop," says her husband screwed an old cabinet pull to the side of her can to give it a handle. I've always got three or four filled with mixed potting soil, manure, compost, pea gravel, weeds, fertilizer, birdseed, iris lounging until they're planted - something. Another reader, also commenting on a recent column, said she was happy I'd used the S-word as opposed to spelling "it" out.

  One thing that some people store in their garage is a bike. There are many things that people store in their garages. Some people just put the kickstand up and put it in the corner.   They most likely one or two cars, a lawnmower, garden tools, and anything else they might need to do repairs or work around the house.

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