[bert]

My wife’s crops are now planted in several locations scattered around sunny places in our yard. A great harvest is expected from now till frost resumes

My point of this post is to alert gardeners to a truly fantastic tool now available. The tool is a cordless cultivator that is cheap, light weight and extremely effective. It is not intended to plough acres but rather to dig up soil in small spaces.

Not to be sexist, but it is “Woman Friendly”. My wife watched me using it and insisted on a lesson. She then proceeded to cultivate a 6” wide row parallel to her garlic the length of the raised bed.

You can see them on Amazon. It seems that everybody is making one this year.

I bought a Sun Jo For $89 but there are lots of others.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That’s slick! We have a small cultivator for the raised beds. I have Beau till them every few years - they don’t need more than that, and I prefer to leave he soil alone as much as possible for the lovely Earth Worms who do so much and ask for so little. ;)

Ours is a Stihl Yard Boss.

[Augie]

You can see them on Amazon. It seems that everybody is making one this year.

I bought a Sun Jo For $89 but there are lots of others.

Now that looks like a very useful tool. I've been pondering a Garden Weasel for several years, but the thought of maintaining yet another small gasoline engine has kept me from pulling the trigger on that.

I'm already invested in Makita LXT series cordless tools, so I checked Amazon to see if they offered a gizmo similar to the one you posted, and sure enough they do. It's actually a multi-tool power shaft with a slew of available attachments.

Now I know what to ask for when I write my next letter to Santa Claus.