Planting trowel
A planting trowel , sometimes also called a flower trowel , is a garden tool about 30 cm long that is used to dig holes in the ground for planting plants. In literature from the first half of the 19th century, we read that the devices trowels were very similar.
In the past, a planting trowel, like a mason's trowel, consisted of a metal leaf that was connected to the wooden handle by a curved handle. While the leaf on the bricklayer's trowel is flat, only plant trowels with a curved leaf are offered today. Usually this is almost straight from one piece with the handle and this is provided with a plastic hand guard. Only higher-priced models are still provided with a wooden handle today.
Before the mechanization of agriculture , trowels were common tools in agriculture to move crops such as madder , weaver teasel , tobacco, beets and others to the field after they were grown . In addition, there were detailed instructions in technical books on how to use it, for example, which leg should be used to kneel with and from which side a helper should present the plants.
Today trowels are only used in horticulture . The tools with a 6 - 8 cm wide tool blade are mainly used for work in confined spaces such as flower boxes, flower troughs or small beds for planting perennials, sunflowers and bulbous plants. The advantage of their use compared to planting wood is that enough free space can be created for the roots even in deeper layers and that enough loosened soil is available for an optimal planting bed .
Trivia
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Gardena flower trowel
- ^ Eduard Baumstark: Kameralistische Encyclopädie, 1835, d. 229
- ↑ Carl Ernest Mayer: The latest general German garden book with consideration for soil and climate, 1832, p. 115
- ^ NN: Magazin der Handels- und Gewerbskunde, Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comtoirs, 1803, s. 336
- ↑ Hugo Schober: The cultivation of tobacco u. der Weberkarden, a guide to the appropriate operation of the same, 1853, p. 112
- ^ NN: Magazin der Handels- und Gewerbskunde, Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comtoirs, 1803, s. 336
- ↑ Andreas Barlage, Brigitte Goss, Thomas Schuster: Quickfinder Gardening Year: The best time for any gardening work. 2009, p. 51
- ↑ Eugene Eric Kim's blog (accessed November 15, 2013)
