Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and many retailers who normally don’t feature gardening products have potted flowering plants and other quasi-gardening gifts prominently displayed. I thought I’d take the opposite tack and share with you my favorite non-gardening garden “thingies.” Most of them don’t qualify as tools. Some of them, quite frankly, would look like […]
Tools and Equipment Entries
Seven Gardening Gifts No One Will Give Me
May 9th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 8 Comments
Categories: Tools and Equipment
Keywords: daffodils · gardening gifts · gardening tips · poppies · seeds · tools
Purdyville tools attend May Dreams Gardens hoedown
May 2nd, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 11 Comments
“We considered dressing up for the hoedown, but we’re pretty casual folks, and felt more comfortable in our regular duds. The rock rake is a little unusual, but the rest of us are pretty average. Well, Ms. Ho-Mi is not your average hoe, I suppose. We’ve all been here at Purdyville long enough that we’re […]
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Getting Past the Hype: Is the Enki Watering System worth the money?
February 24th, 2008 by Jeff Gillman · 19 Comments
I like to try out new gardening gadgets and techniques as soon as they come out, but despite my best efforts I’m frequently blindsided by something new that I haven’t researched. Such is the case with your intrepid blogger, Kathy, who caught me without a quick answer to her question about Enki, that electric […]
Categories: Miscellaneous · Tools and Equipment
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The Urban Compost Tumber
October 7th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 16 Comments
Readers of this blog know I tend to get absorbed in the details of garden projects. But somehow the making of compost has been immune to such obsessions. To my mind, compost just happens. I don’t really give it much thought. It might occur to me in the spring that the piles should really be […]
Categories: Tools and Equipment
Keywords: compost · compost tumbler · tumbler
A Bad Year for Tools is a Good Reason to Buy More
September 11th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 10 Comments
It all started with that forsythia bush. Collin had barely gotten started pruning out the thickest branches for me, when the blade of the lopper snapped off. I had purchased these loppers from Lee Valley a while ago, but I thought it was worth contacting them to see if the loppers had a lifetime warranty. […]
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Keywords: tools
Servicing my watering needs
April 23rd, 2007 by Craig Levy · 1 Comment
I had a conversation with a gardening friend about watering the other day. We each have strong personalities and the talk was lively and interesting, filled with opinions and advice. When the time came for “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” I did and I’ll share them with you too.
I have spent […]
Categories: Garden chores · Tools and Equipment
Keywords: breaker · chores · equipment · hose · hose repair · shut off valve · watering · watering wands · wonder waterer
Deluxe Garden Cart is A Problem Solver
November 7th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 8 Comments
Have you ever walked 250 feet uphill to the asparagus patch with a bucket full of hand tools, only to realize after you get there that the weeds have gotten a lot worse than you imagined? So you trudge back down the hill and carry the garden fork back up the 250 feet, only to […]
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Keywords: tools
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