I spent the weekend cleaning out and refreshing all the flower beds around my house and one of the problems that inevitably arises is that after a long winter the dirt in the beds has become uneven and hilly. This then means that when I spread mulch in my beds the mulch will tend to settle in the low spots over time and the high spots will become bare. That means that I have to bring out the garden rake and get to work. Garden rakes work great for a variety of things, but making dirt or sand or other materials perfectly flat and even can sometimes be difficult. Like every other home gardener I push and pull the rake back and forth over the hardened dirt with the tines of the rake to not only loosen the soil a little bit but to also help spread it around more evenly. But after raking anything like dirt you often end up with lots and lots of little ridges through your soil so that it almost looks like you’ve striped the ground with tiny mountain ranges. When you’re spreading anything thicker like mulch or large stones then you have another problem: [...]
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