Korean Hand Scythe - Tiffanys favorite hand tool
Plant Size Guide
Korean Hand Scythe - Tiffanys favorite hand tool
Fun fact: zero professional gardeners use trowels or spades to transplant plants into their gardens! Its like, not really a useful tool for someone trying to get stuff done. Most farmers and professional gardeners use a type of “hand hoe” for garden work. We sell two different hand hoes for you to choose from, Tiffanys favorite and Muriels favorite.
Why Tiffany, and many of our other gardeners, love this tool is in its versatility as a gardening hand tool. The shape of this curved hand plow means that there is a pointy/ thin end, and a thick/ wide/ flat end, and there are options in-between. The pointy end is useful for getting into the soil and chopping things up, and then once the soil is loose you can use the wider part to plow soil out of the way of your hole. This might get awkward to explain with words but you can also use the tool to hold loose soil out of the way of the hole. So, youre digging a hole and then you leave the tool in the hole, pushed to one side, and it acts as a wall to keep the loose soil you’ve dug out of the way. Put the plants root ball in the hole, remove your hand tool and let the loose soil fall back into the hole. Turn the plow on its wide flat edge and you can use it to push soil around, or you can use it to “scuffle weed” aka scrape the surface of your soil to kill small new weeds.
This centuries old Korean tool is hand forged and strong while also being lightweight. Tiffany has joked that if she could replace her hand with a single tool, it would be this one! If you have a larger garden and wish to use this tool to make long troughs for planting there is a long handled option that we don’t sell but you can locate it online.
Blade 7" x 3", Handle length 5", 12" overall
Delivery Details
Delivery Details
When you place your order we head into our greenhouse to select the very best plants we have in stock for your garden. We label them with handwritten compostable wooden labels and pack them in recyclable boxes to keep them safe on their journey. Our delivery partners, Roadie, take it from there and head to the Redlands to pick up your order. Communication and tracking take place via Roadie and your driver will leave your plants in a safe and covered area.
Plant Care
Plant Care
When your plant delivery arrives, make sure you water your new plants thoroughly with a light spray of water (none of this thumb over the hose stuff). We recommend planting them within 10 days of receiving them. If you do intent to wait to plant them, we recommend placing them in a shallow reservoir (like a baking pan) and filling it with half an inch of water so they can drink the water from below while you are at work and place them in an area with plenty of sun. When planting in your garden always add a dash of Organic granular fertilizer, and give them extra water during their first week in their new home, while they adjust. We recommend disturbing the root ball as little as possible during planting.
About Our Plants
About Our Plants
All of our plants are grown in OMRI certified Organic materials (potting mix, fertilizer, seeds, etc.) and include Organic granular fertilizer, living locally-made compost, and have been cared for with healthy microorganisms from compost tea and microbial inoculants. We only use organic pesticides when needed. We only stock varieties that we have experience growing and that are season and climate appropriate for South Florida. Our curated inventory is simple enough for a beginner and interesting enough to keep an advanced gardeners attention, with new and rare varieties being added weekly.
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