Whats in My Garden Cart? Fall Edition
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I've been using my pick ax a lot lately. I always had problems using a shovel to dig though the dense clay in my garden, but the pick ax makes short work of roots, rocks, and dense soil. I've also found it makes a decent trowel replacement when working with softer soil, which I have just started to develop in one of my beds.
I use Ryobi tools, and I've found most of them serviceable, but the hedge trimmer was to wimpy for the nasty vines and blackberries that took over the garden. I've been beating them back with some large two handed sheers, but its time consuming work, and my attempts at chemicals and other cutting tools just haven't yielded anything.
another tool I've got a lot of use out of lately is the Ryobi belt sander. I've used it for carpentry, but also crude tool sharpening, the large sheers and pick ax blunt and dent easily with the rocks in my area, and the belt sander works so fast it can really reshape a blade. I usually don't sharpen past that point for crude tools I will be using in the soil.
I have some large snipers that I use for cutting tree branches and bamboo. I used to have force multiplying ones, but I haven't been able to find them locally.
Date: 2022-07-16
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Comments and reviews: 9
Stacey
That knealing pad is exactly what I need in my garden! They are usually so small here not covering your ankles from the mulch, which your right, can hurt! My husband and I used to do landscaping and that was a killer on my legs & ankles, especially when we did full landscape transformations. I really need to make an investment in a pull behind cart or a small green wagon like you have. It would make gardening so much easier around here. I have 100+ plants and always adding more. Lol. We are on such a tight budget because I'm not working at the moment due to injuries from a past car accident. Gardening is my peaceful escape into the beauty of what nature has to offer us.
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That knealing pad is exactly what I need in my garden! They are usually so small here not covering your ankles from the mulch, which your right, can hurt! My husband and I used to do landscaping and that was a killer on my legs & ankles, especially when we did full landscape transformations. I really need to make an investment in a pull behind cart or a small green wagon like you have. It would make gardening so much easier around here. I have 100+ plants and always adding more. Lol. We are on such a tight budget because I'm not working at the moment due to injuries from a past car accident. Gardening is my peaceful escape into the beauty of what nature has to offer us.
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Diverse
I love the kneeling pad, even more the ticker one, it just needs to be a brighter color to spot quicker if you leave it somewhere in the garden. I invested in lithium battery garden tools and it has revolutionized my life so easy and quick, no hassle worrying about extension cords anymore. My house is surrounded by boxwoods back and front private hedges all four sides and lots of trees. Just recently bought a lithium battery chainsaw works like wonder. I understand how you feel about the tools you bought it's worth the money. Great video Laura and Aaron, and happy Halloween!
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I love the kneeling pad, even more the ticker one, it just needs to be a brighter color to spot quicker if you leave it somewhere in the garden. I invested in lithium battery garden tools and it has revolutionized my life so easy and quick, no hassle worrying about extension cords anymore. My house is surrounded by boxwoods back and front private hedges all four sides and lots of trees. Just recently bought a lithium battery chainsaw works like wonder. I understand how you feel about the tools you bought it's worth the money. Great video Laura and Aaron, and happy Halloween!
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Penny
On your recommendation, I purchased the big knee pad last spring. Although a little pricey, I love it. Hope they bring it back. Have 60acres but garden almost 3acres so have same mower and cart which gets used like crazy. Love the tilt on cart. Also love my cordless blower! Awesome. I use leather gloves for almost all gardening. Garden work averaged 20-30 hours a week. And two weeks of forty hours just before my garden tour. Good tools do make a difference. Love your videos.
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On your recommendation, I purchased the big knee pad last spring. Although a little pricey, I love it. Hope they bring it back. Have 60acres but garden almost 3acres so have same mower and cart which gets used like crazy. Love the tilt on cart. Also love my cordless blower! Awesome. I use leather gloves for almost all gardening. Garden work averaged 20-30 hours a week. And two weeks of forty hours just before my garden tour. Good tools do make a difference. Love your videos.
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Patrica
I loaded up on sedum based on your recommendations. You were right, I loved them. So did the deer! They left me a few stems, which was very nice of them. They have moved on to devour my weigela (they were very sly--they sent the baby deer up for them---no way I could get mad at the babies, right? I had also selected them based on your recommendation. I have come to the conclusion that the deer are texting you to tell me what to plant! :): )
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I loaded up on sedum based on your recommendations. You were right, I loved them. So did the deer! They left me a few stems, which was very nice of them. They have moved on to devour my weigela (they were very sly--they sent the baby deer up for them---no way I could get mad at the babies, right? I had also selected them based on your recommendation. I have come to the conclusion that the deer are texting you to tell me what to plant! :): )
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Mary
Thank you so much for sharing your tool information with us. I have several of your items on my wish list for Christmas. Of course, I buy them for me & not necessarily at Christmas. I especially want to get the leaf barrel and the retractable rack. Can't wait to get mind. I have decomposed granite on a backyard patio area. So I could also use the leaf blower. Anyway, thank you for sharing!
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Thank you so much for sharing your tool information with us. I have several of your items on my wish list for Christmas. Of course, I buy them for me & not necessarily at Christmas. I especially want to get the leaf barrel and the retractable rack. Can't wait to get mind. I have decomposed granite on a backyard patio area. So I could also use the leaf blower. Anyway, thank you for sharing!
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handmade
You mentioned removing hostas in the fall, I always figured just leave them be since they come back every spring. Do you just cut them down and leave in the ground or remove them completely out. One of the reasons I prefer them is I don't care to have to buy new plants ever spring. I live in Georgia which does not get as cold as NJ where I lived previously. Thank You
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You mentioned removing hostas in the fall, I always figured just leave them be since they come back every spring. Do you just cut them down and leave in the ground or remove them completely out. One of the reasons I prefer them is I don't care to have to buy new plants ever spring. I live in Georgia which does not get as cold as NJ where I lived previously. Thank You
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Russell
. 25 acre here, so I do the Homer Bucket method. Gloves, watering can, Felco 2's (twins, a small hand shovel, and one of those weed puller fork thingys. Bucket great for weeds, or pulling annuals or whatever. Plus handy to use to push yourself back up off the ground. I do have a kneeling pad in my Amazon wish list, as my knees are just getting too tired of that life.
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. 25 acre here, so I do the Homer Bucket method. Gloves, watering can, Felco 2's (twins, a small hand shovel, and one of those weed puller fork thingys. Bucket great for weeds, or pulling annuals or whatever. Plus handy to use to push yourself back up off the ground. I do have a kneeling pad in my Amazon wish list, as my knees are just getting too tired of that life.
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Lavanya
There are also butterfly chrysalis that overwinter on dry foliage, I recently heard about this on a Central Texas Gardener show and was surprised! Their advise was to cut back as close to spring as possible. You could check for the chrysalis on cut foliage in fall just to make sure, but if you are like me then you wouldn't know what you were looking at, LOL.
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There are also butterfly chrysalis that overwinter on dry foliage, I recently heard about this on a Central Texas Gardener show and was surprised! Their advise was to cut back as close to spring as possible. You could check for the chrysalis on cut foliage in fall just to make sure, but if you are like me then you wouldn't know what you were looking at, LOL.
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chris
Great video for my husband to watch. Christmas is coming and the leaf blower would be a super replacement for my dying R_______. Problem is he would
borrow the garden cart and the leaf rake and the leaf hands and the pop-up bag and the everything else. But the Felco pruners would be off limits, I would
need to hide them, I know how he rolls!
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Great video for my husband to watch. Christmas is coming and the leaf blower would be a super replacement for my dying R_______. Problem is he would
borrow the garden cart and the leaf rake and the leaf hands and the pop-up bag and the everything else. But the Felco pruners would be off limits, I would
need to hide them, I know how he rolls!
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