Knives in the garden

[Will Power]

Blueberry crop this year is decent. These garden bush ones beat going to the forest to harvest the wild Bilberries that grow on the ground, have very staining juice but are tasty! Only problem with the wild ones is the horde of biting insects you have to contend with-often have to wear a netting hood&jacket to keep them off. There are also Adders lurking under the plants ....

 

[Jolipapa]

Blueberry crop this year is decent. These garden bush ones beat going to the forest to harvest the wild Bilberries that grow on the ground, have very staining juice but are tasty! Only problem with the wild ones is the horde of biting insects you have to contend with-often have to wear a netting hood&jacket to keep them off. There are also Adders lurking under the plants ....

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Not counting irrespectuous foxes and friends...

 

[Will Power]

Jolipapa right...Bears, Wolves and Lynx Bear has been filmed very near my property, maybe that's why 1 day for the only time ever the Cat refused to go out...

 

[screened porch]

Jolipapa right...Bears, Wolves and Lynx Bear has been filmed very near my property, maybe that's why 1 day for the only time ever the Cat refused to go out...

An outdoor cat knows his onions.
I don't remember the name of this Japanese gardeners' knife, but it's a little short for bears.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Old girl lending a hand to repot and prune up the guava.

Cherry guava is the only one I’m aware of that can be grown in frost prone areas. It’s done well in the pot for 3 years but time to get her in the ground.

 

[thepapercut]

Tis the season!

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Thanks for reminding me of this thread thepapercut .

The back garden and the bush garden

 

[Scubaroo]

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Tis the season!

Thanks for reviving this thread, I’ll keep it bookmarked for this season! I’ll be using a few of the farmer jacks from this year.

 

[.577NE]

It will be a while till my first rhubarb meringue pie I reckon...

 

[thepapercut]

 

[echoscout]

 

[screened porch]

I'll add pics after work.

My garden is more of a yard. I'll work on that someday.

Yesterday I used my new, 24" Tramontina machete to fill the yard-waste bin with some of the tree trimmings I've left lying around for years. And some newly-whacked sassaffras. (I think sassafras dies harder than wild grapes or honeysuckle or pokeweed.)

Tramontinas are sharper from the factory than other Latin_American-made machetes of my acquaintance, and I'd sharpened it some more, so I got a nice cut from wiping off the blade.

 

[black mamba]

. . . so I got a nice cut from wiping off the blade.

Bound to happen sooner or later, we all get 'em, but heal quickly, Jer!

 

[screened porch]

Bound to happen sooner or later, we all get 'em, but heal quickly, Jer!

Yup, it's already done bleeding.
Pics of the machete will wait till tomorrow, I guess.
After all, tomorrow is another day.

 

[screened porch]

There may be people out there who would say, "Why do you need a 24" machete when you already have a 22" machete?" Talk about having a discussion without a shared frame of reference.
My loon-wrangler says I'm the only person she knows who uses a machete in the yard. It doesn't worry her, though; she thinks it's funny. She hasn't seen my yard.
Here is my new 24" Tramontina, which has made it unnecessary for me to sharpen my 24" antique Collins Legitimus; with my 22" Corona.
Maybe I'll glue up that sheath today, maybe not.

'Bout time I got out in the yard.

 

[screened porch]

I mowed the back yard; it grows thick and it's been a week.
It's been five days for the front yard, which is too soon, but the dandelions were egregious, so I scythed them with my grass blade.

I don't know if I look like a simple countryman or an escaped lunatic, but this is my tick-thwarting costume for the season.

 

[mac0731]

The kids and I did a little flower planting today, assisted by the City Stock

 

[Hoffmajo89]

New knife and fairly new sprouts coming in.

 

[Just Tom.]

My neighbor gave me a whole bunch of these things from her garden, and I spent all morning planting them around the yard.

I used my current-production stainless Okapi to help out.

I have a dislike for stainless traditionals that I can’t seem to get over, but I’m trying. I dulled the finish a little with Scotch-Brite, which helps some.