Showing posts with label Broad fork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broad fork. Show all posts
Monday, May 2, 2016
Friday, February 21, 2014
Dig your 2014 garden without a rototiller!
So you've made your best garden plant seed picks and actually placed your order on time this year.
You will need to contact the rental shop to get on their list of rotor-tiller renters and hope that the weather cooperates and that there are no problems with their tillers that will necessitate a repair on your tilling day.
Of all the things you will need to do to get ready for a successful gardening season, preparing the soil for planting is an unavoidable must do task.
If you are like most people, using a rotor-tiller is as pleasurable as hiking on a superhighway.
An alternative to the noise, smell and mechanical stress of rotor-tilling is using a broad fork.
- Otherwise known as a broadfork (written as one word) a U-bar or a grelinette.
Not all broad forks are created equal and each has their own place in the world of gardening tools.
One broadfork you will want to check out when learning about broad fork gardening is the WayCoolTools broad fork. It is surprisingly light despite being made entirely of tempered aircraft quality alloy steel, yet strong enough to remove large stones and penetrate heavy, compacted soil. It has the added benefit of enabling you to more finely cultivate your garden soil for planting by chopping and tilthing the soil.
To use a broad fork rock the two handles back and forth while applying pressure with one or both feet on the cross bar above the digging blades.
As you penetrate the soil, pull back on the handles to loosen the soil.
If needed you can use the broad fork with an up and down chopping motion to break up larger clods of soil.
The amount of time to produce finished planting beds is around a minute per foot in heavily compacted soil. With that in mind you could dig a 30 foot long planting bed in about a half hour.
If you were to work an hour a day with our 5 tine broad fork, in the course of a work week you will have made ready over 200 square feet of gardening space.
Did you know that you can actually dig deeper than a rototiller with a broadfork without creating the hard pan that rotor-tillers cause?
For more information on these broad forks see www.waycooltools.com
You will need to contact the rental shop to get on their list of rotor-tiller renters and hope that the weather cooperates and that there are no problems with their tillers that will necessitate a repair on your tilling day.
Of all the things you will need to do to get ready for a successful gardening season, preparing the soil for planting is an unavoidable must do task.
If you are like most people, using a rotor-tiller is as pleasurable as hiking on a superhighway.
An alternative to the noise, smell and mechanical stress of rotor-tilling is using a broad fork.
- Otherwise known as a broadfork (written as one word) a U-bar or a grelinette.
Not all broad forks are created equal and each has their own place in the world of gardening tools.
One broadfork you will want to check out when learning about broad fork gardening is the WayCoolTools broad fork. It is surprisingly light despite being made entirely of tempered aircraft quality alloy steel, yet strong enough to remove large stones and penetrate heavy, compacted soil. It has the added benefit of enabling you to more finely cultivate your garden soil for planting by chopping and tilthing the soil.
To use a broad fork rock the two handles back and forth while applying pressure with one or both feet on the cross bar above the digging blades.
As you penetrate the soil, pull back on the handles to loosen the soil.
If needed you can use the broad fork with an up and down chopping motion to break up larger clods of soil.
The amount of time to produce finished planting beds is around a minute per foot in heavily compacted soil. With that in mind you could dig a 30 foot long planting bed in about a half hour.
If you were to work an hour a day with our 5 tine broad fork, in the course of a work week you will have made ready over 200 square feet of gardening space.
Did you know that you can actually dig deeper than a rototiller with a broadfork without creating the hard pan that rotor-tillers cause?
For more information on these broad forks see www.waycooltools.com
Sunday, November 3, 2013
The gift that gardeners want!
With the holidays coming up, we are all making our lists and checking them twice.
Who deserves to receive a suitable gift is easy to determine.
What to give, however, may be a conundrum for some.
We'll let you in on a little secret.
Many gardeners we have met this year have divulged that they would like a WayCoolTools Unbreakable Broad fork and are hoping some nice friend or relative will give them one as a holiday present this year.
There! Now the secret is out, and your holiday shopping just got easier.
With online shopping and free shipping, what could be easier?
Friday, April 12, 2013
Planting potatos and onions using the broad fork
The garden soil has finally dried out enough to prepare some beds for the potatoes and onions due to some particularly hot early spring weather. While digging with the six tine broad, I was really struck by the fact that I never really got to that exhausted state we have all encountered when doing the really hard work of preparing the garden for planting.
Working at a comfortable pace we prepared two beds 30 inches wide by 26 feet long in about an hour and a half. The spacing between the beds in this section of the garden was made intentionally wide this year to allow for the potato vines to spread out into the path while giving our young children enough room to play comfortably without damaging the plants; so much,. You know dump trucks - excavators?
Working at a comfortable pace we prepared two beds 30 inches wide by 26 feet long in about an hour and a half. The spacing between the beds in this section of the garden was made intentionally wide this year to allow for the potato vines to spread out into the path while giving our young children enough room to play comfortably without damaging the plants; so much,. You know dump trucks - excavators?
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