External Brain & Garden 23 Apr 2005 01:00 pm
Diggit garden tools
Turns out you can buy Diggit garden tools by mail. If you don’t mind getting close to the ground, this is the best dandelion weeder ever, especially for tough, deep-rooted dandelions. And it’s a neat multi-purpose tool; it’s the perfect pointy stick, really. I love tools that are that simple and well-thought-out.
I used and abused my Diggit weeder until it twisted. I can’t remember how, but I remember that I was doing something stupid with it. Trying to find a replacement was a pain. (As things like that almost always are for people who don’t drive.) I settled for a long-handled weeder, at twice the price and half the usefulness, but I kept the beat-up tool around figuring that I could someday walk into a hardware or garden store and announce, “I want one of these.” It wasn’t until yesterday that I noticed the tiny url on the blade. Turns out it’s made by a local company.
This time I’m going for the extra-high-strength version.
on 23 Apr 2005 at 2:00 pm 1.Mia said …
“Great for stabbing slugs!”
on 23 Apr 2005 at 10:45 pm 2.toadlily said …
I almost exclusively use a hore-hore, it has been the perfect mlti-puropse tool for me. I got turned on to it when I volunteered for the Northwest Prennial Alliance and everybody that worked out at the Bellevue Botanical Gardern used them. I have totally fallen in love with it.
on 23 Apr 2005 at 10:52 pm 3.Wim said …
Hardwick’s doesn’t carry it? My world is shattered.
on 23 Apr 2005 at 11:28 pm 4.Cam said …
You’d think it would, wouldn’t you? I’m going to take a look for it again next time I’m in there. (Thanks, toadlily — I’ve been meaning to buy a hori-hori for a while now; just have to get down to Hardwick’s to pick one up.) But it’s not on the Diggit list of stores, and I sure didn’t see it last time I looked. It’s possible that there are a dozen of them in a bucket tucked under a cabinet somewhere in there, though.