Square Tool Bag

We're all familiar with young trees that try to grow in places where they will either be a nuisance or where they will never have a reasonable chance of surviving and thriving. Spade/Shovel If there's one tool that you need for transplanting trees, it's...

The garden fork has four long square, super strong tines that end with a diamond points for easy soil penetration. Well...maybe not. I mean, all you have to look for is a garden fork that is well made by a reputable company and you're done.

Mill files only go in the forward direct, so do not pull the file across the edge on your backstroke. Keep your shovels, spades and hoes in tip-top shape for spring gardening with this simple maintenance project.

Then, I hammered metal T-bar stakes into the ground and secured the closet organizer to the stakes with zip ties to keep it from blowing away. Many things that can be found around your home actually double as great trellises for vining crops.

Picking up a $5 pair of gardening gloves at the hardware store may make sense initially, but when they fall apart or are as stiff as cardboard a week later, you'll wish you had spent a few more dollars on something a little better.

The foliage is partially evergreen. Tags ground covers , Lists A spring bloomer, green-and-gold is not often seen, but it's a great choice for anywhere from full sun to full shade.

Excellent tools, made to last a lifetime I thought. Among the group I brought an indestructible cast aluminium trowel, a sturdy welded hand mattock, and a nifty fiberglass-handled hatchet.

Although you can place ripening melons on a piece of cardboard or an inverted nursery flat to keep them from rotting against the ground, these melon cradles are far easier and more attractive.

A set of three 4-inch pots with the tray and mat will run you $24.95, and without the tray and mat a set of three pots will run you $9.95. Wish me luck! Tags transplants The downside, of course, is the expense—and expensive they are.

Socket handle connections are very strong, but if you want the ultimate in strength, a strapped handle connection are considered to be the strongest available. Most of today's better tool makers use hardwood from FSC Certified forests.With all that said,...

These garden tool artisans have been making tools to solve problems in the garden and you can bet that someone through the years has had your problem and made a tool to solve that problem.

I first used this tool when helping to clear invasive plants from a riverbank on a community clean-up day, and it was so much easier than using a shovel. The Seikouba Sickle This Japanese hand tool is so spectacular that I have two.

Use a 2-inch screw to attach the ends of the pipe to the top of the A-frame on each side, pre-drilling the holes to prevent the plastic from splitting. Grow up not out with this DIY trellis.

Yuck!!! Eventually she taught most of the folks to find their own broadleaf and cure their own bedbug bites, hoping all the while they could completely eradicate the intrusive little bedbugs.Now, though aggravating, bedbugs really cause no damage.

Here are five reasons you need a staple gun among your farm tools. Part of the fun of being a farmer (at least if you're like me) is having a logical excuse—er, reason—to own lots of tools.

Then I'll outline the tools stored behind a panel on its exposed side to make it easy for my wife (and me) to find needed tools without dropping every panel. My plan was to secure the panels with a latch, magnets or some other system at the ridgepole.

Remember, an anvil likely is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase. If you have limited needs for an anvil, a foot-long piece of railroad rail might be enough. It is a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

Each sprayer has its place on my farm. By contrast, the 4-gallon Dramm sprayer weighs 11 pounds empty and less than 45 pounds filled—a nice compromise of some added weight for the convenience of no pumping.

As we prepare this week for Thanksgiving feasting, we turn our eyes toward some of thing things about farms we're thankful for. Now it's your turn! What tools are you thankful to have?

Pruning Loppers Strong, powerful pruning loppers with handles at least 2 feet long are my favorite tree trimming tool. If you do use a chainsaw, you'll want to have additional safety gear on hand, including protective chaps.

Of course with the Bad Axe waiting list, I better get my order placed sooner rather than later. However, I often struggle with buying a high-priced, high-quality tool versus one that will get the job done when it will be seldom used and lightly at that.

Of course, even I have to chuckle at the fact that I've been using an apple picker in the dead of winter with two feet of snow on the ground. I'm a firm believer that some farm tools can (and should) be used for more than their intended purposes.

If it has been on the farm for this long, I might as well put it to use. That's an interesting question, because out of curiosity, I did some research on measuring wheels and found that such large models aren't exactly common these days, perhaps because...

In other words, wire cutters and bolt cutters are versatile tools that all hobby farmers should have in their tool sheds. Whereas wire cutters require a strong hand, the long handles on bolt cutters give you extra leverage and makes cutting through thick...

After all, it's the sharpest saw on the bench, and it does handle nicely! << More Shop Talk >> Tags Jim Ruen , tool , tools A lot of my old tools are just that: old tools. I know I will buy other new tools, like the sabre saw I recently picked up, but...

<< More Shop Talk >> Tags chainsaw safety , chainsaws The trunk slipped about 2 inches vertically. It seemed to be defying the laws of gravity and the rules of physics. I expected it to fall straight ahead.

To test Brix levels, you use an inexpensive hand-held tool called a refractometer (pictured above) to send a beam of light through the juice from fruits, vegetables or their leaves.