dibble stick
A pointed tool for making holes in the ground for planting seeds, bulbs, or young plants.
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dibble stick
A pointed tool used to make holes in the soil for seeds, bulbs, or young plants.
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Dibbles - A tool used to plant bulbs and other small plant by poking holes in the soil.
Dibble A stick or tool that makes planting holes in soil or media.
Dichotomous Forked in pairs.
Dicot A plant of the angiosperm group having two cotyledons.
DIBBLE - A tool used to make holes for seeds or bulbs: a pencil end, dowel, or anything that works for the situation.
DIBBLE: A pointed tool used to make holes in the soil for seeds, bulbs, or young plants.
DIEBACK: This condition is water, nutrient, disease, insect, or pruner inflicted in the area where part of the plant is dying.
Small dibbler
Spray bottle
A pack or small pot filled with potting soil
Water the tray of seedlings thoroughly to loosen the soil. Using a small dibbler, extract the seedling from the tray.
In light sandy soils, you can use the dibble method to plant: Make a small hole with a pointed stick, press the bulb down into the hole, and cover with soil.
Use a sod-cutting spade or tree-planter's dibble to cut the lawn in the desired shape of your flower bed. It is most effective to make the cuts straight downwards (vertical), as this will provide the proper angle for the lawn edging.
(Note: If you're using peat pots, wet them before you fill them with soil.) If you're sowing your seed in flats or trays, use a dibble, pencil or finger to carefully make depressions in the mix in rows.
Also included are tags, permanent markers, empty envelopes for seed collecting and sharing, scotch tape for resealing opened packets, and a small plastic dibbler aka dibber aka dibble for quick sowing.
Plunge your hoes, shovels, trowels, forks, and metal dibblers into the sandy mix. Place the pot or bucket containing the tools in a cool, dry place for winter storage and let the mix do its work.
(I told you to use the pry bar to lever out those rocks.) Sharpen the point just below the D handle and you now have a dibbler, or dibber, just the tool for planting bulbs! ...
When inserting into the medium predibble the hole and insert cutting, gently firming the soil around the stem. Water in with a fungicidal solution to avoid fungal infection.
Exactly when a sharp stick became a dibble or a forked branch evolved into a hoe with a metal head is unrecorded.
For small bulbs, make holes with a dibble and plant bulbs 3 to 5 inches apart. Cover them with twice their height of soil (so a 2-inch bulb would have 4 inches of soil over its top). Plant deeper in sandy soil, shallower in clay soils.
For planting seeds, a dibbler is a great tool, while a bulb planter with inches marked on the side will make it easy to determine planting depth.
Remember, the more leaves, the faster they strike! Cuttings should then be pushed gently into the dibbled holes and firmed (not rammed) into place. They should not be planted too deeply. The box should then be watered again.
 See also: Plant, Soil, Water, Light, Gardening
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