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Introducing our Garden Hand Tools

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Introducing our Garden Hand Tools

Our customers asked for professional quality hand tools to cultivate, weed, and harvest in even the tightest spots of your garden.

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Planning a Victory Garden

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Planning a Victory Garden

Victory Gardens were popular during World War I and World War II as a way to ensure a healthy food supply on the home front. Today, many people grow a garden for the same reasons.

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New Products Survey

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New Products Survey

Here at Valley Oak Tool Company, we create tools to help gardeners and farmers grow food without fossil fuels. Help us develop new tools with this quick Five Question Survey.

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Summer Garden Update

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Summer Garden Update

Gardener David Grau reviews his summer garden of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, zucchini, okra, cucumbers, gourds, lettuce and more!

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Pruning Young Tomato Plants

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Pruning Young Tomato Plants

Pruning low branches has two benefits. First, it helps prevent disease and garden pests moving from the soil to the plant. Second, it encourages the upper parts of the tomato plant to spread and produce more.

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