[Market-farming] Broadfork sources (was experiences)
sunnfarm at netscape.com
sunnfarm at netscape.com
Wed Jul 8 12:37:08 EDT 2009
I bought a Marshalltown no.57 trowel to plant strawberries 24 years ago and have since planted tens of thousands of plants with it though I don't weed with it. It still looks like new, no rust. I bought a cheaper hardware store trowel and it lasted one day... Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.
--- wshoemak at illinois.edu wrote:
From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak at illinois.edu>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Broadfork sources (was experiences)
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:55:53 -0500 (CDT)
>And here's a tip--I bought a 2"x5" mason's trowel for >transplanting soil blocks. It's great for that, but it also >makes a very good hand weeder--the long flat blade can be >placed parallel with the soil and pushed along, making quick >work of all that carpetweed around my onions. It would be >even better when sharpened, I suspect.
Those are margin trowels. I was a concrete finisher when I was young and had several. They are really handy tools for close work, and inexpensive. The steel is usually really good quality to hold up to concrete work.
Bill
William H Shoemaker, UI-NRES
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road St Charles, IL 60174
630-584-7254; FAX-584-4610
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