May 10, 2011
While we were working in Pap’s big garden, I was looking for a roll of wire that was supposed to be over in the edge of the woods-instead I found an old rusted can Pap had stuck on a branch. Pap is kinda notorious for sticking stuff where he thinks it’ll be handy. Any guesses as to what he used the can for?
Tipper
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I wish I had whatever that is to water my seedlings.
Gran use to use it for watering tender seedlings, so they wouldn’t get mashed down by a burst from a hose or big watering can.
I agree on a dusting can or a watering can.
outdoor shower? 😉
I also think it was used to dust plants with pesticides like Sevin. In fact, I made one just like it the other day out of a big baking powder can. If you want a finer dust, you can put it in the legs of a pair of panty hose. That also works great.
I would say to water things, kind of like a sprinkler. My husband used to use one for that purpose.
Wow, Pap sounds so much like my grandparents. That sounds just like something my granddaddy would have done. Maybe pap used the can to water his plants. Now you have my curiosity up.
Looks like something to dust plants with.
Maybe to catch earthworms in for fishing!!!!
daddy used one to sprinkle seven dust on his plants, so that is my guess.
Maybe shaking Sevin on the garden?
I agree with Ed on the application of powdered pesticides on plants in the garden.
I think it is dispenser for seeds or some kind of chemical like weed killer or fertilizer.
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I think for dusting plants too! I had an uncle that used to use a can with holes to sprinkle sevin dust on his garden.
yep i agree with the above comment .. looks like a shaker of some sort.. very thrifty pap you have there 🙂
could be to sprinkle small seeds, grass kind..
did you ever find the wire ..
big ladybug hugs
lynn
Looks like a Sevin (Can’t remember how it’s spelled) Dust Powder Can. I hated the smell of that stuff.
Tipper,
My guess is the same as Ed’s. It
looks like a shaker can for Sevin
Dust for beans and taters. If it
was much larger and in the creek
branch, I’d have said it was a can
for lizzards. We use to use those
5 gallon shiny cans to store our
fish bait, mainly lizzards. Nowadays you’re only allowed about
seven lizzards in a boat to fish
with. Thats a crap of it cause we
always had eight dozen with us.
Wonder how long Pap has been using
that old coffee can? Thats about
what my daddy use to do, then when
he couldn’t find it he’d blame us
youngin’s.
The reason the Blind Pig is my
favorite blog is that everything
you share really does reflect our
way of life in Appalachia…Ken
Tripper
He might have used it to water new plants.
I’d guess either a seed planter or agree with Ed, a pesticide applicator.
I think Ed is right; it’s a bean duster. In March I found a similar one, almost rusted away, by the garden gate where our house burned down in 1959. It was homemade, hanging, and handy for over 50 years!
Target practice is my guess… Susie
Tipper, My guess is he uses it for watering. How is your garden growing. Mine is under water from record rains.
Maybe he put something inside to attract ants or beatles and when they go in, they can’t get out.
Stacey
Tipper,
A homemade can to use for dusting
beans…etc…Only when we absolutely have to, we use the safest dust we can find..for those pesky bugs on beans…some years you can get buy without any dust..
My husband uses (if he can locate the right size) a cloth and walks along and shakes it..
Thanks Tipper
Looks like a sifter, perhaps for putting on seven dust or fertilizer.
During the War of Northern Aggression soldiers would take a canteen half, poke a bunch of holes in it with a square nail and use it to grate their corn for corn mush. Maybe it’s a corn cob grater to make them softer when used in the outhouse?
Maybe it’s just one end of the old string and can telephone system. He got fancey and poked holes in his end just like a real receiver so the folks on the other end could hear him better.
Tipper–Three guesses: (1) Used to spread Sevin or something similar on plants. (2) As a way to sprinkle plants. (3) As a way to spread small seed in a bed (mustard greens, for example. Of the three, I think No. 1 is most likely. A fourth possibility would come to mind if the setting and situation were different–as a way of sprinkling clothes being ironed. Mom used an old bottle with a hole-studded cap to sprinkle her clothes during the ironing process, and just a week or so ago while out hiking Don found a bottle with holes in the lid that I thought might have been used in that fashion.
Jim Casada
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It’s a Seven Dust shaker. LOL
Looks to me like a can to apply bug dust with.
Looks like something that I would use to apply powdered pesticides to plants – e.g. to “dust the beans”.