Get a HANDLE on It

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June/July 2001
By Brook Elliott 
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Whatever gardening tool you are looking for, you can probably find it with a long handle.

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If you're willing to search a bit, you'll find most tools are available with a long handle. Peaceful Valley Farm Supply, for instance, has long-handled versions in nine different categories, including forks, rakes, hoes and weeders. Ironically, they do not have a trowel. "We agree with your premise that longer-handled trowels would be easier to use and less fatiguing," concludes technical support specialist Lisa Spang. "But it seems that the purpose of that tool would be better accomplished with a spade or hoe."

Maybe so. But given the diversity of long-handled trowels available, it would seem that many gardeners disagree.

Source Guide

A.M. LEONARD
PO Box 816
Piqua, OH 45356
(417) 924-8917
www.amleo.com

BAKER CREEK HEIRLOOM SEEDS
2278 Baker Creek Rd.
Mansfield, MO 65704
www.rareseeds.com

BURRELL'S BETTER SEED
PO Box 150
Rocky Ford, CO 81067
(800) 443-5512
burrellseeds@hotmail.com

GARDEN TOOLS OF MAINE
RR #2 Box 2208
E. Holden, ME 04429
(800) 871-8158
www.gardentoolsofmaine.com

HIDA TOOL & HARDWARE
1333 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94702
www.hidatool.com

LEE VALLEY TOOLS
PO Box 1780
Ogdensburg, NY 13669
www.leevalley.com

PEACEFUL VALLE Y
(800) 536-5450
www.groworganic.com

FARM SUPPLY
PO Box 6900
Grass Valley, CA 95945

PROHOE
PO Box 87
Munden, KS 66959
www.prohoe.com

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