Remove Garden Weeds with a Hand Weeder

Gone are the days when the usual manner to pick out weeds in a garden is to poke the soil with a sharp stick. Even those used barbecue sticks made of bamboo were okay. You simply pierce the soil at base of the weed and attempt to loosen the surrounding soil of the weed. Then you slowly pull out the weed, hoping you get all the roots out also.

This method works conveniently if you only have a few garden weeds to pull out. That's because the sharp point of the stick becomes blunt or bent over time, and poking the garden soil becomes harder. Also, a straight implement such as a stick becomes difficult and painful for the hand and fingers after continuous weeding.

Garden Sprayer for Misting Foliar Fertilizer

Flowering plants that bloom continuously have always fascinated me. I often wondered what the secret was to soil fertilizers for this to happen. In my curiosity with fertilizers, I discovered that there's a category of fertilizers that may also be sprayed directly to the leaves or foliage. These are foliar fertilizers.

But for you to apply these, you need a sprayer. And the only sprayers I had are the cheap squirt plastic bottles. I used one to spray the foliar fertilizer and realized quickly just how difficult it was to apply fertilizer with it.

That's until I found and bought one of these.

Garden Scissors for Pruning and Deadheading

One of my early morning rituals as a gardener is deadheading flowering plants. I've often advocated this practice in several deadheading entries in this blog.

Deadheading involves cutting or removing spent blooms and this seemingly triggers the plant to produce more blooms. There's a better scientific explanation for this phenomenon, but suffice it to say that deadheading flowers puts the plant into a panic mode.