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March 28, 2009

Tool Time

The editors at Garden Design magazine are recommending the first hand-held wire trimmer powered by a standard 16.4-ounce propane canister instead of gasoline.

Environmentally friendly with zero evaporative emissions, and this weed trimmer has no messy gasoline spills, with the resulting evaporating carcinogens. Propane also burns much cleaner than gasoline and has a much longer shelf-life than gasoline's 45 days.

And propane is produced domestically in North America, so it isn't necessary for the United States to import tanker ships full of liquid propane.

In addition, with this weed trimmer there are no messy mixing of oil and gas, no winterizing, lower maintenance and fuel costs. Standard propane containers are also readily available.

In addition, the company has a propane-powered leaf-blower/mulcher.

Learn more at golehr.com.

Photo courtesy of Lehr

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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