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Old January 5, 2010   #1
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Default Really want this transplanting tool

In Amy Goldmans The Heirloom Tomato on page 7 bottom right there is a tool being used that would really be great to take seedlings out of plug trays or seedling trays when transplanting.
I have also seen a "nitpicker" somewhere but not the same - more for seeding but discontinued.

If anyone know Amy or where you can purchase this tool please let me know.
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Old January 5, 2010   #2
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Don’t have her book not gonna get it and what does it look like.
I bet I could make one.
Can you take a picture of the picture and post it.

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Old January 5, 2010   #3
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I tried taking a pic but it is only 2x2 " in book and just doesn't show good
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Is it tongs or a spade?
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Old January 5, 2010   #5
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like a 1" flat stainless steel spatual/spade
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It's hard to say, but it looks like a tiny fork - like one you might buy for a toddler.
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about 10" long and is raised then bends - have to see it really
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MTF - Try Googling the Lee Valley catalogue. They have a very small transplanting tool for about 3 or 4 dollars. Looks like a miniature spade - but is about the size of a long handled teaspoon (but with a more useful "pointier" blade). I have given them to all of my gardening/seed starting friends and we all use them joyfully every Spring. They even work for transplanting those tiny little leftover bits into flower beds...

And while you're there, those cheap little plastic water bottle tops are great for watering seedling flats.
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MTF - Try Googling the Lee Valley catalogue. They have a very small transplanting tool for about 3 or 4 dollars. Looks like a miniature spade - but is about the size of a long handled teaspoon (but with a more useful "pointier" blade). I have given them to all of my gardening/seed starting friends and we all use them joyfully every Spring. They even work for transplanting those tiny little leftover bits into flower beds...

And while you're there, those cheap little plastic water bottle tops are great for watering seedling flats.
I could just shoot you for that link.

I got lost and never found the tool, they have so much stuff I like darn your hide.

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I found this thing looks pretty good to me.
Stainless too!



http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...200,56141&ap=1




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Salix
Are you talking about the yellow seed spoons ?
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missed Worth1 above - yeah that is as close as you can get - awesome huh????
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Worth, you are so welcome! Wish that company would go public - I would be a millionaire by now...

MBF - the item I meant is called a miniature spade, costs $3.50 and is item number AB550. But those yellow seed spoons I also find handy, especially for those small round brassica seeds...
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the link from worth1 is closest
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the link from worth1 is closest
It looks to be the same design as the kind of tool used by artists and about the same size and flexibility, believe it's called a palette knife.
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