Re: Helping beginners

From: Hermine Stover <hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 1997.01.19 at 18:22:04(175) At 03:27 PM 1/18/97 -0600, Rand Nicholson wrote: >>On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Hermine Stover wrote: >> +More >>> At 02:57 PM 1/15/97 -0600, Ellen Hornig wrote: >>> > >>> >A little stainless steel gizmo for pricking out seedlings (forget the >>> >name, but it's great - could look it up) >>> > >>> >>> The thing for picking out seedlings is called a "dibbler" or dibber in >>> Great Britain. we call it the seedling-thing. >>> Hermine >>> >> Now I am forced to get scientific. I have retrieved the object in >>question, and the only information conveyed upon it in writing is that >>it's a "stainless steel NIT PICKER" and "made in Canada". No kidding. >>If you ever see one, grab it. >> >>Ellen > >Yass ... We do have _enormous_ bugs up here and they drop their nits >everywhere. We also refer to the famous Canadian "NIT PICKER" as a >"backhoe" and use them in winter to dig up the vicious ice worms. > >Kidding (maybe) > >Rand > OK I confess. what we use here at the nursery is you take a stick and shove it into the automatic pencil sharpener left over from when you were employed as an architect. or if it cloggs that device, an exacto whittles it to a dull point. I don't think we call it anything. "gimme the thing" is what we say when we need one.

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