Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

I’ve been pretty busy in the garden, tunnel house, and grassy building site. That always seem to happen with me just before spring emerges – it’s a frantic time.    Spades  When you’re digging out flax or any plant, tree, shrub for that matter, some soil types make it difficult to get into with a regular spade. We had a rather dry late winter period with soil becoming pretty hard to open up.  My best investment for these conditions is my trenching spade:  A long and tapering blade that ends up with just 10 centimetres of bottom edge, easy to drive into the soil and allowing you to tackle the hard clay with a minimum amount of effort.  I tried to dig out large, old flax plants and the only way to do that is with a trenching spade – no contest!  Of course, as the name suggests, trenching spades were invented to create long narrow trenches for power lines of water pipes.   Why dig our more than you need to?    Weeding implements  We all know what a hoe is; a push or pull device that can cut plants off their roo