I even like drawing tools
I’m a tool junkie.
I spend a chapter in Grow and Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening covering some of my favorites.
Tools are important. I love hand tools in particular, since they’ll be there when everything else falls apart – particularly if you buy good ones.
I always buy good stuff when I can help it, since I put a lot of hours into my gardening work and I have having a spade break or a machete ding while I’m trying to work.
Since I end up talking about tools regularly, I decided to dedicate an entire section of this site to them.
You can find that page here
I’ll keep adding tools as I think of them but there’s already an assortment there from “MUST HAVE” to “REALLY WANT.”
You can have greener thumbs by this weekend!
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Hi David, I’d like to add a suggestion. I recently started using an old manure fork in the garden, and it works wonders. It is lighter than a garden fork, and has narrower tines, so it penetrates the soil easily. I use it to loosen heavy soil, and also to uproot deep-rooted weeds. Much better than a garden fork. Also, the tines are spring steel, so very resilient and hard to bend. The one I use looks like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Ames-True-Temper-Manure-1838100/dp/B00002N6D2/ref=sr_1_5/185-0915937-4685963?ie=UTF8&qid=1467323829&sr=8-5&keywords=manure+fork
I think it’s a lot more versatile than a garden fork.
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