Re: Copper garden tools, ..still

[Manfred Palmer]

Folks : I checked with Lee Valley Tools, and apparently they don't carry the copper-button Hoe anymore. I've requested info on their old stock. I remember it more as a large copper rivet.... whose sloughing-off would be much less imposing than sprinkling around filings of copper, methinks. I did not purchase one at the time because i could not reconcile Frank's similar concern with any copper in the ground without a basis in existing presence , ....and the voluminous amount --suggested by Schauberger-via -Steve --thru the use of several plowshares at a time. Frank, Steve, : does it repulse worms/microlife, or over-ridingly benefit in water-retention properties? Should we be that concerned ....as Schauberger seemed to be? The proportion of copper in bronze is obviously less than a "pure" copper contact. Incidentally, Lee Valley also sold longish copper strips -1-inch wide for slugs in the garden for its electro/chemical reaction. .......manfred