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I've been out working in the garden and took this video of me digging with my Meadow Creature Broad Fork. The bed is 50ft. long and I dug it 14 inches deep in just a little under 11 minutes. This broad fork is the best gardening tool I've ever had, bar none, except my Troy Bilt 8hp Horse tiller...

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Likely he was pulling the stump to the side so he could get down in the hole and cut more roots. Maybe even head first. He may have cut a root or dug soil and the root ball shifted in the hole pinning him. Or a similar scenario with an uprooted tree stump. Or maybe one of the stump support...

I understand your dilemma all to well but in the end you are not going to change ag practices on your neighboring properties. I suggested a move for your physical and mental well being.

I would move. But I never would have chosen to live in the middle of ag fields to begin with. Ditto with landfills and their well known contamination of groundwater, etc.

It is or was made by Amish evidently. I bought directly from them some time ago but don't remember where and they had a much better price. It's really a pretty simple hoe and I bet a lot of the guys here on the forum could make a good one. Seeing one in person would be all of the info they need...

I'd like to make one in the future using that was a solid piece of stainless without the worm gear holes. My hoop hoe is only best for very specific applications. Here's a hoe I have that I like better than the stirrup hoe design and I use it more often, too. You control how much it digs in by...

Looks like planting and side dressing.

I have three sizes of stirrup hoes plus one a foot wide for my Planet Jr. wheel hoe. The Craftsman action hoe is a stirrup hoe. To begin with stirrup hoes are quite limited, as is my hoop hoe, only in different ways. Then there is the $30. And in the end some of the weeding task I do the...

Just remember that it is a delicate instrument only capable of killing small weeds. Use the lightest handle you can find. I've also got a smaller version only 18" long.

Thanks. Other arborist are likely to speak up shortly, a few already have.

That tree is going to fail and do some serious personal injury and property damage. In just a short matter of time, too, IMO. There is not enough room for that tree. It's owner needs to get it out of there and the neighbor needs good photo documention for when their insurance goes after the...

I did the 'deep dive' into Yukon Gold a month or so ago. I forgot to mention that YG is slow to emerge. I plant 8" deep and slowly over time pull soil into the depressing to control weeds. Remember that my soil is highly improved and dug to 14" deep and 30" deep where old beds used to be. This...

I did a deep dive on Yukon Gold potatoes and here are a few interesting facts I retained: Determinate variety Sets potatoes low and do not grow many new potatoes along the stem as they are hilled like indeterminate varieties do. Like determinate tomatoes (a relative), they set one crop and...

It's a huge time saver is why I do it. Is that ***** juice on your chin?

Look into succession plantings of each. I plant yellow squash 4 times per season. As the first crop starts to succumb to the squash vine borer later plantings come online. Give about three weeks between plantings. I do this with squash and cucumbers.

Any shoots the potato has should point to the sky. They will be foliage. Roots will start to form shortly.

I can't really make out the root crown. Your spruce were probably field grown and dug bare rooted so one would think that they had been planted the proper depth and grew that way. Often trees and shrubs that are dug and then balled and burlap have extra soil piled around the stem and then the...

As usual, you can safely ignore Bill's advice. He's not here to help, he's only here to stir the ****. I've had him on ignore for a long time now and soon back on ignore again. What a waste of time he is. Yes, those are potatoes coming up. Don't do any digging or dividing until it's harvest...

Don't forget that she was exposed to the chemicals, too. So is her ground water like most "agricultural" soils are. So maybe not so much haste after all. Drink deeply my friend.