heliotis@rochester.UUCP (06/13/83)
My father-in-law showed me this tool several years ago and I finally bought
one. It's great! You use it in non-square-foot gardening situations where
you have room for the tool between rows of plants. It is simply a plate of
metal with necessary supports that is dragged just below the surface of the
dirt to uproot the baby weeds. It looks like this:
/|
/ |
/ |
=================================( | <-- the metal plate (side view)
Long Handle \ |
for use while standing \ |
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After you are done, just weed by hand right around the plants. Be careful
next to young plants, though -- I uprooted a tomato plant!
My apologies to those gardeners who already are familiar with this (it's
nothing new).
Jim Heliotis
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