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• Garden tool
  ...h the range of tools made for [[agriculture]] and [[horticulture]]. Garden tools can also be [[hand tool]]s and [[power tool]]s. ...n fork]], the [[Rake (tool)|garden rake]] and the [[plough]]. The earliest tools were made of wood, flint and bone.
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• List of organic gardening and farming topics
  ...farming is concerned, the emphasis is on smaller-scale organic production tools and methods, somewhat to the exclusion of the methods of large-scale organi ==Tools==
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• Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil
  The wood is very hard and it dulls [[cutting tools]]. The [[heartwood]] is quite durable. The tree's wood is used for outdoo
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• Logging
  ...vest or silviculture method and is simply called [[clearcutting]] or block cutting. In the forest products industry logging companies may be referred as loggi ...a [[forest management]] plan. This plan should include areas off-limits to cutting such as sensitive [[Habitat (ecology)|habitat]], [[vernal pool]]s and [[rip
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• Esculent Asparagus
  ...furrows plowed (with a one-horse plow) on each side of the rows after the cutting season or in early fall, will be of benefit or become necessary to keep the ...and afterwards, in the course of some weeks and by means of some suitable tools (cultivators, harrows, and the like), gradually fill the furrows even with
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• Lawn mower
  ...; and the fact that toothed circular saw blades were not really an optimum cutting tool for free standing grass and other plants. Stacy did not come up with Two cutting mechanisms are in common use:
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• Pruning
  ...sening of the struggle for existence amongst the parts of a plant, and the cutting away of certain parts for the purpose of producing some definite effect in Tools.
  34 KB (5,883 words) - 10:10, 20 September 2009
• Horse Radish
  ...et small end up, no growth may result. In horizontal planting this special cutting is unnecessary. Root-crowns are sometimes used, but since these develop a l Plowing, wear of tools, and so on ..........350
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• Ragweed
  ...dants have a reduced efficiency against ragweed, they remain indispensable tools, especially in populated areas and near delicate plantation, where herbicid One especially effective method of controlling ragweed; cutting it, then burning it once the stalks have dried[http://links.jstor.org/sici?
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• Banksia spinulosa
  ...Information About 35 U.S.C. 161 Plant Patents | work = Patents, Guidance, Tools and Manuals | publisher = United States Patent and Trademark Office | year
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• Fruit growing
  ...early in spring with a cutaway harrow, gang-plow or other surface-working tools. This may not be possible, however, on very heavy lands. The cover-crop add ...ow enough to escape tillage tools. There has been a development of tillage tools which will do the work without necessity of pruning the tops very high. The
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• Pecan
  ..., of San Saba, Texas, about 1889. He transformed a number of such trees by cutting back heavily in late winter with a cross-cut saw, practically beheading tre ...dding have been widely adopted by pecan-propagators, and special tools for cutting the "rings" and patches" have come into general use in the southern states
  33 KB (5,272 words) - 04:20, 26 June 2009
• Avocado
  ...has no insect vector but is spread by use of infected scions, contaminated tools and roots grafted with adjacent trees. It is important to use virus-free pr ...at condition as possible by frequent stropping or whetting the knife after cutting each thirty or forty buds. The incision in the stock may be made either in
  40 KB (6,460 words) - 22:57, 27 June 2011
• Pear
  continued annually during the life of the tree, cutting back all of spring from the stock in consequence of the cutting back must be
  71 KB (11,964 words) - 01:53, 5 March 2015
• Kitchen - Garden and Flower-Garden
  ...clean and neat, rather than those that tend to spread and so require much cutting and restraining. Lilacs, for example, require constant grubbing out, while ...d over in this way will be in excellent condition and less disturbance and cutting of the roots will result.
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• Plum
  ...as possible and yet allow of the working of the curculio-catcher or other tools below them. This means that the limbs should start from 3 to 4 feet above t ...the most serious plum diseases. It is best kept in check by systematically cutting it out (several inches below the swelling) and burning it. The grower shoul
  44 KB (7,382 words) - 01:52, 5 March 2015
• Peach
  this treatment. The other is to practise annual cutting back of the and this will then require severe cutting back to encourage branching
  88 KB (14,935 words) - 01:57, 5 March 2015
• Cabbage
  ...ted seed, by manure from cattle fed on diseased refuse, by soil carried on tools from affected fields; distribution in this way should be carefully avoided. ...or slightly below the surface. Treated in this way, they root like a great cutting and form loose, well-branched plants which are not so liable to injury from
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• Greenhouse
  ...less a thousand than the "firsts and seconds." The percentage of waste in cutting up will be somewhat greater than in the other grades. Cheap timber is likel ...ngs is the nearly ripe wood. In woody plants, as camellias and others, the cutting material often may be completely woody. In herbaceous plants, the proper ma
  107 KB (18,559 words) - 09:07, 17 September 2009
• Organic Gardener's Composting
  ...s the proper, sharp tools. Unfortunately, the knowledge of how to use hand tools has largely disappeared. No one has a farm-bred grandfather to show them ho ...that would be nutritious enough to maintain the health of cattle required cutting the grass before, or just at, the first appearance of seed stalks. Not only
  380 KB (62,788 words) - 19:57, 13 July 2009

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