The Best Tools for the Vegetable Gardener
Author: Carlos Herramenta
There’s an electric or electronic gadget for just about every task from crushing ice to blowing leaves and dirt from the sidewalk. However, the average homeowner is on a par with the Ethiopian subsistence farmer when it comes to the tools used for gardening. While there are motorized tillers that turn over the soil before planting seeds, these cumbersome, noisy, and often expensive devices are more suited to planting the annual vegetable garden than maintaining home landscaping and flower beds.