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Garden Tools

tools  04-230x153Tools should be cleaned after each use. Doing so keeps diseases, fungi, insect eggs and weed seeds from being spread around your garden.

This also extends the life of a tool by removing moisture and rust enhancing soil from steel surfaces.

All your favorite spades, rakes, hoes, trowels, and any other tools that come into contact with soil should be washed off with water after each use.

For extremely dirty garden tools rinse with the garden hose first. To remove heavy soils use a scrubbing brush.
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After washing any tool, dry it with a cloth before putting it away.

Axes, pruning shears, loppers and knives etc that don’t come in contact with soil should be wiped down with a cloth to remove any gums and saps from their blades.

Dry the tools with a separate clean cloth. Motor oil is a cheap and effective rust preventer.

Applied to steel surfaces, the oil insulates and protects the steel and prevents it from rusting.

You can thin the oil out and make it easier to work, a 2:1 ratio of oil to kerosene.
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You can then wipe your tools down or use a household-cleaner spray bottle to spray them before wiping them down an putting them away in the garden shed.








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About us

dale-john 01-100x66 Dale Harvey and John Newton met in Melbourne Aust. in 1981. Since then they both men have supported each others careers while also building and maintaining their own. Read about how they were able to turn their joint careers into one and creating a dream of a better world starting in their own local community.

Media & Publications

host daffodils-100x66The following articles are a small part of the many published editorials on or about both Dale Harvey and John Newton.

Plus the property affectionately nick named by the people of New Zealand, as the
"Quarter Acre” Paradise gardens.

Awards & Credits

HOPE Trust-100x66This is a collection of Appreciation Certificates, Local and Overseas Awards with Acknowledgments presented to Dale Harvey and John Newton over the many years of their joint careers.
Plus the Launch and Registration
of The H.O.P.E. Trust
The Healing of Planet Earth.

Contact Us

Quarter Acrea Paradise
23 Vine Street
Mangere East 2024
Auckland New Zealand

Text: 0274720700
 
Tel: +61 9 276 4827
 
Email: info@daleharvey.com 
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