Posted on 04/10/2021 2:06:53 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
April showers bring May flowers, but only if your garden is properly set up first.
It’s finally warm enough to get the garden going again, which also means trips back and forth to the home goods and stores for plants, trellises and bulbs and blooms.
For those who want to see if their thumbs are green but don’t have much green space outdoors, check out our options for indoor gardening with grow lamps or fully-equipped herb gardens that can thrive right on your kitchen counter.
For the traditional gardeners itching to pull on their gloves and get to digging, we have cool new gadgets for you, too, like outdoor mini-greenhouses for your backyard and beautiful and spacious flowerbeds for all your favorite veggies, fruits and flowers.
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For those of you only interested in the nitty gritty:
Click and Grow The Smart Garden 9
The ēdn SmallGarden
BloomingTables Entryway Table
4-Tier Mini Portable Indoor Outdoor Greenhouse w/ Steel Shelves
Indoor plants
Double Macrame Hanger
14-Watt LED Indoor Table Top Plant Grow Light Fixture
Lettuce Grow The Farmstand
RainStation 45 Gal. Recycled Black Rain Barrel with Diverter
UKOKE Garden Tool Set, 12 Piece Aluminum Hand Tool Kit
Dayanara Vinyl Lattice Panel Trellis
Planter With Trellis And Self-Watering Reservoir
Ketchum Fir Potting Bench
Kash Wood Planter Box
Outdoor bulbs
Ukiber Plant Watering Can
Gardener’s Tool Seat
A tractor
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Don't forget Juan and Julio. There will be plenty to choose from this Spring...so prices should be reasonable.
Just yesterday the wife moved probably 50-60 potted plants from the “over the winter protection” of the sunroom, out the the yard and deck. I’m seriously having trouble finding a spot to put my favorite deck chair. She’s been clever with the mostly homemade, not unattractive, racks that the plants are stacked on. Still feel like I’m camped out in a rain forest when enjoying a cool one on the deck.
Those aren’t tools.
They are overpriced, unnecessary accessories.
My necessary tools are a shovel, hoe, rake, hand spade, plastic buckets, watering can, and a Polaris Ranger to carry it all.
We live in the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. Moved there a couple of years ago. Was told the most helpful tool to have for the garden there is a jackhammer. Pretty much.
1) I require that all pots be up off the hardwood decking (Brazilian hardwood). Don't want the stains.
2) The wife uses wine bottle plant waterers in most of the pots. These don't result in the dirt splashing up and out of the pots onto the deck when we water with a hose 😎. Plus it's a slower time-release method of watering.
I do have to admit, the wife's hard work with these plants make it worth it because they really spiff up the yard.
Yes. I’ve never seen one of those. Smile.
A Ma Duce (M-2) might be handier in the future? Smile.
I’m not sure the origin of most of my garden tools as they are mostly 10+ years old, but I’m making sure to look for the Made in the USA label. I have purchased some assembled here or made in Taiwan, etc but zero made in China products, a lot of companies are sneaky about with “Headquarters in US” with a tiny Made in China in the corner. Taking back America one hoe at a time.
Cement blocks for depth control.
Funny you should mention Chinese made tools. This morning I was on a cooking forum and someone posted about pans on sale at Costco. While most people praised the sale one person mentioned that they were made in China, and the insults started. Most wanted to know what the big deal was. Since it was a cooking forum I mentioned that some people objected to buying items made in sweat shops or with slave labor and controlled by a government that jails anyone who complains. Kind of like people who prefer free range chicken, only with humans. For that I was told that I had better stop buying US meat, so I said that there are plenty of people who do just that because they feel that eating meat is cruel but there are plenty of others who don’t care about the cruelty as long as they can have a good steak, very similar to people willing to overlook the cruelty suffered upon the people making the pans as long as they can save a couple of dollars. Nobody jumped in to defend me but I did get a lot of likes for my comments. That tells me that the silent majority is afraid of being bullied.
Never seen a walk-behind version of the Mexican bagpipe before.
“Mexican bagpipe”
LOL!
LOL, I know. A few months ago I was in a “discussion” online about whether US flags should be made in the US and wether or not veteran tee shirts, caps, etc should also be made in the US, surprisingly on a veterans’ page most seemingly didn’t care.
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