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Posted by Jamie McIntosh Jun 15, 2008 |
“Jamie, where is my cell phone?” “Mommy, where are my tinker toys?” “My sunglasses were here just a minute ago, now where are they?” Objects of all sizes become lost in our home each week, and my husband and three sons look to me for clues of there whereabouts. “I am not the curator of this museum,” I want to tell them. If I were, I would need to cull the collection severely!
Although I’m as befuddled as the rest of my family as to the location of the missing magazine/gas key/model airplane, I’m on top of the tools and the products I need to maintain my organic garden. My time in the garden is limited, so I can’t afford to spend 30 minutes rummaging around in the shed for my horticultural vinegar when I spot a new poison ivy tendril winding its way along the fence line.
If your organizing style consists of a five-gallon bucket filled with some rusty tools and a resident spider, consider some organizing tips to help you manage your gardening implements:
- Hang your favorite weed knife or dandelion digger on a nail beside your garden bed. You’re more apt to use it to grub out weeds while they’re small if your weeding tool is handy.
- Place a bucket filled with a mixture of coarse sand and vegetable oil to plunge your trowels and garden pruning shears into at the end of the day. The sand scours dirt and the oil prevents rust.
- Keep your organically acceptable dusts and sprays locked up in an area that stays between 60 and 80 degrees F. Garden sprays begin to degrade when exposed to scorching or frigid temperatures.
- Store seeds you’ve saved in a plastic partitioned pill box. Place name labels on the lid over each section.