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Essential Garden Tools and Supplies
After years of trial and error, perusing gardening resource links on the web and actually using the tools and items we've purchased, we have a few essential gardening tools and resources to recommend. We've included everything from pruners to sprinklers to hose fittings. These items worked for us, so we know they'll work for you. They save time, money and stress over the long haul.
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Felco Tools
If your pruners don't prune and you find yourself replacing those cheap, imported ones from the local home and gardening supply stores often, please take a look at Felco's pruners and cutters. Swiss made, friends. Replaceable blades. Solid steel construction. Tree saws that cut like a knife through butter and STAY sharp. In brief, we love Felco tools. These are investment tools that, with good care will last a lifetime. Watch your fingers! These tools are SHARP! Keep them well oiled, and don't accidently throw them away with the clippings! Get this, gardening friends - the pruners have replaceable blades and springs! I've used mine for four years and the blades are still dangerous. The fruit pruners are also great for small snip jobs like cutting flowerstems or soft stems for propagation. Click on the Amazon carousel to read more about or purchase these garden essentials!
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Dramm Watering Supplies For Irrigation
Watering wands, hose couplings, nozzles and fittings are essential for keeping your garden well hydrated and healthy. If you're tired of wands that need replacing every couple of months, or couplings (are you still using those plastic things?), Dramm has beautiful brass fittings that last and last. Their wands are colorful and sturdy. No more drowning the seedlings. Just pop your Dramm, seedling sprayer head on your wand and you're good to go with a fine, gentle mist. There are short wands, long wands, wands in colors, wands with grip ends or without. Metal interchangeable heads for hard sprays or soft may be purchased seperately. Are you still using those plastic gun type nozzles that work for about a week before the stopper won't budge? Grab a Dramm brass hose nozzle and become powerful! These nozzles are so versitile and durable, you can write them into your will for the next generation of family gardeners. They adjust for sprinkling the tulips or blasting crud off the sidewalk. Sheer bliss! We use Dramm nozzles, wands and couplings exclusively. Click on the Amazon carousel above to read more about or purchase these great garden essentials!
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National Walking Sprinkler
If your not fortunate enough to have an inground sprinkler system and just hate wasting time holding the hose for hours, the National Walking Sprinkler is for you. This beauty connects to your garden hose and follows it wherever you lead it in your garden. National Walking sprinklers have been around since the 1930's for good reason - they work. Even better, they leave your hands free for other garden chores or just plain goofing off while you watch your lawn or garden being watered. We've named ours "Little Man", because it works like a hired hand.
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Novosel Enterprises - Nursery Pots
Nursery pots at a good price...period. Every shape, color and size you could possible want. Seedling trays, hanging baskets, multi-cell trays, little pots, big pots, pots and more pots. Very reasonable prices on pots and shipping. Been buying from them for years...
www.novoselenterprises.com/products/container.asp
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Swan Hoses
Stop buying those cheap garden outlet hoses! If you have to replace your garden hoses every year, or have cracks and splits that require new couplings a few times each year - buy a SWAN hose! SWAN hoses are used in the commercial nursery business for good reason - THEY LAST! If you find yourself battling with kinks, snarls, knots and frustration - buy a SWAN hose! SWAN hoses don't kink or knot up, which means less trips back to the kink for you...unless you actually LIKE fighting with your hoses. It can be good exercise, but wouldn't you like to do better things with your gardening time? :)
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Hummert International
Rhizopon rooting hormone is used in the commercial nursery business for rooting all kinds of cuttings. It comes in three strengths - #1, #2 and #3. The #3 strength is especially useful for hard to root cuttings both green and woody. Hummert carries it and many other essential garden chemicals and suplies.
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