Comments on: beyond organic gardening: ecological horticulture, with rebecca mcmackin

By: Rebecca Weil

Rebecca Weil — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:57:48 +0000

In reply to margaret.

Hello, Margaret- Here is a link to one of Rebecca McMackin’s lectures. Great to also hear your podcast about her work. Very hopeful!!
I really enjoy your writing, especially Why Gardening Offers a Psychological Lifeline.
You might enjoy this short piece of mine that was just published in the Journal of Wild Culture, about the wild coming into the veggie garden.
Thank you for all the important and interesting work you are sharing!!

By: margaret

margaret — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:21:07 +0000

In reply to Leslie C Reed.

Hi, Leslie. You might do better with a saw-tooth small sickle, a popular tool in Japan used for harvesting and cutbacks. Rather than a squeezing motion over and over with pruners, you hold/pull the stuff with one hand and then slice though many stems at a time with the sickle in the other. An example.

By: Leslie C Reed

Leslie C Reed — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:36:15 +0000

I wonder if anyone has suggestions for how to cut six inch stem pieces when you suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. I have been waiting to cut down and leaving in place the cut stems in my garden for quite a few years now, but the one year I decided to cut the pieces small (I think I was going for about 4”) because I thought it might look nicer and allow the spring plants an easier time coming up than the full stems do, my hands hurt so much that I have not dared to try again. Any suggestions of tools or methods to accomplish this task? (I will have to finish watching the GardenFit show on PBS to see if they address this!)