Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!heliotis From: heliotis@rochester.UUCP Newsgroups: net.garden Subject: A great tool for weeding Message-ID: <1945@rochester.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 12:42:27 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.1945 Posted: Mon Jun 13 12:42:27 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 11:16:15 EDT Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 23 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 \ | \| 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 rochester!heliotis heliotis@Rochester