Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-08 | Page 8 | Good Tools for Gardeners Are an Absolute Necessity

I I II II I I I I I j. j I I i I is a-is 4 fit A k 4 I 1 v 1 a 4 N Ut I iiii C l Ici t I. I I c ItI wi T I I I A I I J I L I T 1 r i i 1 J I It tI I L. L t L t I f k I P 3 r I I 11 h II I 1 JiN ws k J. J v I 1 4 I 1 p l t j FL j A f II I I 1 tC j w t. t T- T I I 7 1 r l It Good Gooel Tools for Gardeners Are Ale an Absolute Necessity S By MAUD 1 CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor The more tools an amateur gardener has the more efficiently can his work be done for nowadays garden tools are designed to save our knees and backs as well as to perform their actual tasks ks vu r A u 2 d 3 7 2 I But very often as we add ada 1 to our collection of tools we wo simply make more work for ourselves in hunting bunting those very tools unless we are exceedingly exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- ex- ex tidy people and have bave a definite place for each article religiously religiously religiously re re- re- re keeping that article In its own corner A shallow closet may easily be arranged inside the garage or shed door which will keep all tools tooL to together together together to- to gether neatly and which will take up very little room The illustration accompanying this article shows hows such a a. cabinet fitted with a shelf sheI helfat at the top to hold small articles and bottles of insecticide and with hooks or 01 large headed nails naUs in pairs between between between be be- tween which the long-handled long tools are propped The he tools themselves may maybe be many or few according to the number of times you visit your local nursery shop or hardware store for lor certain it is that as a rabid amateur gardener gardener gardener gar gar- dener you cant can't resist buying any new gadget that is shown you Take the matter of spades alone We have all sizes and shapes of these most necessary articles with long or short handles rounded or square blades and all aU have their sp special ial uses A woman woman gardener can very soon wear herself out if it ither her tier spade is too heavy while she can do almost all needed work with witha a specially built lightweight b but t strong ladys spade Cheap trowels are simply money thrown away If It a trowel is going to bend back and forth as you use it it isn't of ot any use user vet t tools are sold gold yearly wh which ch- ch are fashioned iash fash of ot no stronger material than tin Un and weren't worth the splash of ot bright green paint that is put on them to aid in sales Every gardener should have ave at l i least ast two strong steel trowels a wide-bladed wide one for lor average tasks and a narrow one for lor bulb planting and similar work These trowels will vill last for years and will willbe be used almost every day Keep them bright and free from dried earth and always put them away in the tool closet after your days day's gardening is ended A great boon to the woman gar gar- deher dener is a tool for clipping ing grass edgings which has a long handle and so o can be bo used without stooping over This is shown at the extreme left in the illustration Another interesting and useful thing is shown here herc too This is the ho hc Keep Off sign which could be oe be used in so many ways ways ways-on on pieces of newly sown grass near freshly painted steps or porches and in other spots where wandering visitors to your garden might work havoc by stepping there before you had a chance to warn them