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It’s sharp to keep your garden tools maintained

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By Benjamin Block Verified, UVM Extension
| Shelburne News Verified
Home gardeners use a variety of hand tools to achieve their desired results for gardening and landscape maintenance. A quick search at any garden center or online retailer uncovers a vast diversity of equipment, implements and gear. These include, but are certainly not limited to, shovels and hoes, loppers and pruners, and trowels and soil knives. When new, these tools help with garden tasks flawlessly.
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Outdoors | It's sharp to keep your garden tools maintained

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By Benjamin Block Verified
| Bennington Banner Verified
Home gardeners use a variety of hand tools to achieve their desired results for gardening and landscape maintenance. A quick search at any garden center or online retailer uncovers a vast diversity of equipment, implements, and gear. These include, but are certainly not limited to, shovels and hoes, loppers and pruners, and trowels and soil knives. When new, these tools help with garden tasks flawlessly.
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What’s the dirt on ‘good’ soil?

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By Benjamin Block Verified
| Williston Observer Verified
What makes good soil and what does “good” mean? Most of us would likely answer that good soil is full of readily available nutrients for our vegetables and flowers to uptake and robustly grow. There is, of course, more to good soil than nutrients. Otherwise, why would we bother to grow plants in soil at all? Soil, being an ecosystem, is teaming with life that supports plant growth, if conditions are right.
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