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When Tools Get Out of Hand

Garden Tools After getting seeds planted in our garden a few days ago, we are now patiently waiting for those first little specs of green to start popping through the soil.  Unfortunately, right behind those first good plants typically come unwelcome visitors in the form of weeds.  Grass and other weeds can be a pest and take away vital nutrients that our veggies need to flourish.  But there's a solution - a well trained gardener, or even a young child with a minimal instruction, can actually use a tool, a garden hoe, to eliminate the weeds with a few swift swings.  Their skill and desire  to improve the garden make the soil cleaner and the plants are allowed to grow stronger and flourish.  But the opposite is also true.  If someone was to become angry at you, they could sneak into the garden at night and use that same hoe to destroy all of your precious veggies.  You see, the garden hoe is merely a tool in the matter, completely neutral and at...