Garden Tools
Best way to keep all of your tools in great shape, is to take care of them year-round.
- Remove Soil after use, at least wipe the dirt off. Keep a brush in the tool shed so it is convient to give them a little more love.
- Sap on my tools! Noooo! Who did that? Well you could go and buy some Goop-Be-Gone (I totally just made that name up) Better Grab a little slab of butter and rub the sap off. Presto! Now use a little dawn dish soap (my favorite cleaning product, if it can save a duck…) Dry with a cotton rag (like an old t-shirt that you did not want to send to the landfill. Then air dry, we do not want rust!
- Clean Metal Tools! Make an oiled sand. 1/2- 1 quart mineral oil to 5 gallon bucket of sand. Sand should be damp but not moist. Push blades of tools into sand. This helps to clean and condition the metal. Store in bucket or hang on pegs. Note: Please do not buy a 5-gallon bucket for $3.00 from a big box store. They are not made to stand the test of time, they easily crack, and are not made to carry that heavy of a load. INSTEAD take this little nugget! Next time you are at your favorate sandwich shop, if you don’t have one try mine: B&B Pickle Barrell Company, in Fort Collins Colorado, best French Onion Soup in town! Buy your favoriate sandwich my husband loves the Tobin’s Tummy Pleaser, then ask them if they would save you a pickle bucket. Congratulations! You just saved a 5-Gallon bucket from being shipped over seas from being burned. One love. One World. One Air we breathe!
- Stay organized, Be Prepaired, Have a system. You got this!!!
"I wanted to thank you so much for that wonderful, wonderful arrangement, and I know why it’s called Dutch Floral Design, because it looks like something out of a Flemish painting, I love it! Thank you so much, you do beautiful work!" Leslie Fort Collins, CO
Bloem Dutch Floral Design exemplifies the standards and quality controls that are integral in the professional Dutch floral design trade. After extensive training in Alsmeer, Holland, Jacqueline brought the knowledge and passion for creating and building these floral designs back to Ft Collins, Colorado. We invite you to inquire how we may be of assistance in inspiring your environment with her creations!