I Grow Good Weed
Weeds are the only thing prospering in the garden right now. The onions are slowly bulbing out, there’s fruit on the pepper plants, and the tomatoes are still working on the whole breeding thing… which is logical, as I disturbed some of the roots of the plants as I’ve been removing cold-season veggies and filling the beds back up. I’ll post pictures this weekend after it’s put back together…
My glowing review of my favorite gardening tool is quoted over at North Coast Gardening. I love my BigGrip knife. It’s been used and abused for three years now, and looks much the worse for wear. I don’t think I could say enough good things about how easy it makes pulling weeds in the hard clay soil here, how well it fits my hand, and how useful it is for everything from pulling giant curled dock roots to cutting St. Augustine runners.
Constant Companion
The referenced forum post is over here, wherein I persuaded at least one other person to buy one. I did find a sheath for mine too, but I’m not sure what it’s from. Possibly a MagLite flashlight?
Regardless of the tools I use, weeding is currently my busiest activity. I have all kinds of good/bad grasses and other plants growing themselves in the yard right now. I spent all day sunday weeding (and ended up with one heck of a sunburn) and I still could spend another weekend, easily, in the backyard just on the curled dock alone.
In other news, I harvested my first Kohlrabi tonight. It seems that Kohlrabi is a bit more heat-tolerant than the other brassica family members, and I will *hopefully* get a few more to bulb in the next week or three without them becoming too bitter. It was sweet with some added salt, but smaller than the ones you get at the grocery store. I need to look up a source of the “gigantic” cultivar seed for this fall…
Alright. I am sucker for tools and gizmos. I am buying one of these this weekend.
Hey, I found your computer blog and read your post about Query Browser. The application I manage sits on top of SQLServer 2005 but I use MySQL for my personal entertainment. I don’t use a GUI mostly because I wanted to force myself to be as self-sufficient as possible, so I use the command line mostly. Occasionally though, I build a web interface for a database here and there using PHP. Nothing fancy though as I usually have no time and because I am not a PHP guru.
Karl!!! Your post title has me cracking up!
Did you sharpen the serrated side of your soil knife too? How did you do it if so? I’m wondering if there are teeny round files you can slip into those serrations to sharpen them?
I haven’t seen any in stores this year at all, David, so fair warning … there’s some on Amazon.
The GUI is nice and is improving, but I think they’re focusing on improving the Workbench product… at least, all the bug reports I’ve put in on the query browser have been closed as the product seems to be going away. I use the command line or phpmyadmin personally … more the former than the latter.
Geniveve – It was a tip of the hat to Humboldt County. ;)
I didn’t sharpen the serrated side, but it’s possible to do. I used a dremel sharpening attachment… I’m too impatient to do anything manually like that. ;)
[...] My new blogging friend Karl wrote me recently to rave about his favorite gardening tool, the Fiskars Big Grip Knife. It just so happened that I had just recorded a video and written my own review of my two favorite weeding tools, and after I included his review with mine, he wrote a follow-up post as a tip of the hat to us Humboldt Countians – I Grow Good Weed. [...]