Even Suburbanites Need a Machete

Although popularly thought of as jungle hacking tools, machetes come in very handy around the house. I use mine to chop my kitchen and garden waste into little pieces so it composts rapidly. My evergreen bushes out front grow new shoots in the summer, and to keep the bushes looking I good I get rid of the uneven shoots with my machete. A vine is growing through some of my bushes, and the machete took care of that too. I make stakes out of branches and saplings from the backyard for tomato trellis stakes and bean poles.