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The Wild Onion continues to be a problem.  The clumps of these bulbs are in our lawn and in our beds.  I've worked at them for years - including cultural and herbicide treatments over the years.  I've removed them, sprayed them and attempted to treat the soil to make them less happy.  This Spring, I've lime'd the backyard , sprayed the tips with Tenacity and pulled them out by hand.  This past week, I went into the understory garden bed and used my Hori Hori to pull up a bunch of these jerks.  Below is the orange trug filled up with the bulbs.  What's different in the beds vs the lawn is that it is a bit easier to get the bulbs out without taking more dirt/soil/earth.  I pry up the bulbs, cut the clump and pull from the bottom.   If you have Wild Onions like we do, be SURE TO NOT COMPOST THEM.  These go right in the trash - not the compost pile.   Here's a couple of other Spring 2023 posts on these awful things. 

Earlier this year, in the 'scorecard' post of my 2022 garden to-do list, I marked the 'upgrade my garden tools' item as 'complete' and mentioned that I was set to explain that with a new tool that I received as a Christmas gift.  This post...is paying off that item - and showing a new Dutch push-pull diamond-shaped garden hoe with p-grip.  This one is from DeWit Garden tools and features a 84" wooden handle - with that p-grip that you can see in the first photo: Below is a look at the diamond-cutting head of this long, push/pull hoe: Below is the product label that lists this as: DeWit Dutch Diamond Push/Pull Hoe with Ash Handle - 1700mm.   And, finally, below you can see the DeWit logo on the metal head that connects to the ash wooden long handle: This is the second wood-handled garden tool that I have - with the first one being a Sneeboer garden hoe .  In that post, I mentioned that I've been thinking about this very push/pull hoe based on the recomm...