On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:51:04 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm,
Gunner Asch quickly quoth:

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:15:54 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:24:47 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm,
Gunner Asch quickly quoth:

Its been at least 25 yrs since Ive seen one of those things. Not gonna
be fun trimming between the cactus.

For 'tween-cacti trimming, you need one of the HF 93918 floor
scrapers, mon. It's 6" wide and 4' long, so it makes a dainty and
lovely shovel.


I dont want to dig anything up..just wack it off

Ive shade cloth under the dirt in the cactus gardens, so much of the
weeds etc dont grow between the plants, but up through and around the
cacti

I tend to slide the shovel about an inch down in a flat skimming
motion. That takes some of the root, too. Then rake it back over the
weed mass and it rolls out. Bag it and dump it.

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