This is the nice handle my husband made to go on the garden mixer. It not only makes it much easier to move, it allows the mixer itself to move in all different directions for use.
Here’s the mixer hanging in a moveable position.
If you look carefully, you can see the long, straight metal handle coming down from the round, black disk thingie. This allows you to turn the mixer into a position where you can toss the components of Mel’s Mix (vermiculite, peat moss, and three kinds of compost) into the bin. Then you can plug it in and mix it thoroughly. Unplug it and move it down for dumping into the wheelbarrow to take wherever you would like.
Here you see the mixer in place beside the bins holding the components of Mel’s Mix.
We used bungee cords to tie a tarp in place over the mixer to protect it and the extension cord from the elements.
We can also use it for its intended purpose, to mix concrete, but we don’t do that often. I mix Mel’s Mix all the time, and who would have thought of using a concrete mixer as a garden tool?
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