By Molly Hackett
Master Gardener 

Grasshoppers, season extenders & tomatoes

Dirty Fingernails

 

September 3, 2020

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Molly Hackett, Master Gardener

For any gardener who has used, or wants to use, an electric shredder for chopping garden debris and turning it into mulch, here is updated information: For years I have used chopped garden plants-even weeds, if they had not yet made seeds-to cover every bit of bare soil in my gardens. Finally, I wore out my shredder and then discovered that a replacement was impossible to find. All the electric "chipper/shredders" are just chippers, useful for dry branches but nothing soft or green.

After a year of searching, comparing, trying, I have found a shredder which will deal with green plants. The...



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