Plant Gardens 101

The fictional obnoxious co-worker Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office is many things, including the owner of a family beet farm. He talks about beets; he eats beets; he told a joke involving a nun with a beet for a head. In short, he’s a man who knows his property and takes good care of it. Hence, it only seems logical that Dwight Schrute would own a wood chipper.

Think about it: wood chippers are used for gardening, landscaping, and of course, farming. They cut and dice tree branches and trunks into sawdust and wood chips. They convert yard trimmings and general messiness into useful materials. A beet farm is bound to have these problems, particularly during the winter months when the season changes in Scranton, Pennsylvania. So surely Dwight, in all his common sense and beet farm dedication, must have purchased a wood chipper or chipper of some kind (some are compact for leaves only, others are heavy duty) to help him clear his beloved beet farm of debris and fallen tree limbs. (more…)

Welcome to the ever-expanding, ever exciting discussion topic of wood chippers! Yes, my friends, wood chippers are the new black. Not really. But they are useful for everyday gardening, landscapers, municipalities-why, I bet even those fancy celebrities everyone’s always talking about own one, or at least their gardeners are using it. In any case, wood chippers are better, faster, and chipping away better than ever before.

Wood chippers and chipper shredders are mainly used to slash fallen tree limbs, branches and uprooted trunks into wood chips and sawdust. They’re extremely helpful for getting rid of yard waste and converting backyard trash into valuable garden materials, like wood chips for ground cover. Plus, it’s easy to use since most are powered by internal engines. All you need to do is insert the yard trimmings and the wood chipper does the rest for you. Many even come with different options to suit your particular yard cleaning dilemma, such as mulching. And others come with reversible feeding, so your engine doesn’t have to work overtime and the chipper knives don’t wear down too quickly. (more…)

When you’re outside puttering around in your garden, you probably feel tranquil, serene, at one with Mother Nature. It’s just you and your plants, getting along fantastically together. The last thing you want is for that peaceful silence to be obliterated by an intimidating gardening contraption like the chipper shredder. But fear not, those scared easily by loud noises and heavy machinery: chippers are not like their predecessors, and they’re only getting better.

The chipper shredder is interesting in that it’s one of the most versatile gardening tools around. Sure, you may scoff at the idea of having a machine assist with something that’s so essentially natural. Yet after weeks of turning over that compost heap or letting those bags of leaves pile up, it’s best to turn to a little extra help. For those that compost with gusto, a chipper shredder may already be sitting in your backyard somewhere, happily assisting with converting leaves into mulch and spitting out wood chips for ground cover. For the lazy composter, it may not even have occurred to you to enlist a hunk of metal to help make mulch. For those that don’t even compost, the chipper shredder is still handy; with its chopping and dicing abilities (like an oversized piece of kitchenware seen on late night infomercials) will speed up the process of eliminating dead brush and tree limbs from the yard. (more…)