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Garden Tool Giveaway – Spring 2011
21 year ago
by Blake Schreck
in Garden Tools
Win these tools from Garden Tool Co.
On May 1st, 2011, Garden Tool Company will be giving away some really cool garden tools to 5 lucky winners. That’s right, enter once and you’ll have 5 chances to win one of the five giveaway sets. When you enter our Spring 2011 Garden Tool Giveaway, you could win :
- Giveaway Set # 1 – Sneeboer Garden Tools worth $465.90
- Giveaway Set # 2 – Clarington Forge (Bulldog) Garden Tools worth $190.85
- Giveaway Set # 3 – DeWit Garden Tools worth $137.90
- Giveaway Set # 4 – Felco Garden Tools worth $73.90
- Giveaway Set #5 – Japanese Garden Tools worth $49.85
Don’t Delay – Enter Today! (sorry, that was cheesy, but I couldn’t resist)
New book coming out by Margaret Roach
11 year ago
A bit about the book in Margaret’s words:
from marthaville,
to just margaret
IN DECEMBER 2007, I made the life-altering decision to walk away from New York City and my job as Editorial Director of Martha Stewart, a career many would describe as highly successful. But I craved completely different rewards: solitude, a return to the personal creativity of writing, and a closer connection to nature and my first passion, the garden I’d been making on weekends for 20 years. I moved to a rural New York State town of 300, began AWayToGarden.com (called “the best garden blog” by the New York Times and named for my prize-winning 1989 book), and wrote the dropout memoir “And I Shall Have Some Peace There” (February 2011). Today, I lecture and teach about what I call “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” and help clients create websites on the WordPress platform.
Click on the link below to see the book video.
List of Garden Tools You Must Have! (NOT)
01 year ago
Caution – Rant just ahead-
Is it just me, or are there too many articles with a “List of Garden Tools You Must Have”? While I know that the web is a pretty powerful tool – How in the hell do these people know what garden tools I need? How do they know whether I live in an apartment and only need a nice trowel for my container garden or a 300 acre estate and need four different size spades? Do they know that I am 6′ 4″ tall and like a longer handle?
Gardeners are all different and have different needs! We are tall and short, we are right and left handed and we have flower beds and large vegetable gardens. Because of these differences, only WE can decide which garden tools will make our gardening more enjoyable and less tiresome. So, I say – Cut it out with the “Garden Tool Must Have Lists” and start writing articles about how a particular garden tool can help the gardener.
-Rant Over-
Garden Kneeler – Garden Tool and Unsung Hero
01 year ago
by Blake Schreck
in Garden Tools
At the end of a long day of gardening; what garden tool helped make it easier? You probably didn’t say – my garden kneeler. But if you’re like me, any amount of time spent on my knees will haunt me long after my gardening day is over.
We search out and buy the best garden tools for their long lasting quality and ability to make or gardening chores easier, yet we often overlook the one tool that can help us enjoy it longer – the Garden Kneeler.
Garden kneelers are as simple as a foam pad for kneeling and models that are a combination kneeler and seat. Garden kneelers come in many sizes and just about any color you can imagine. Try a garden kneeler, your knees will thank you and you’ll be able to enjoy your gardening longer.
Garden kneelers available at: Garden Tool Company.
Who’s ready to do some gardening?
102 years ago
by Blake Schreck
in Gardening
I am, my wife Anne is and even our dogs are (maybe). But, Mother Nature isn’t. At least not here in Colorado. To say that the weather here in the Spring is a little fickle is an understatement. Yesterday we started out with temperatures in the upper 20s and sunny skies changing to cloudy skies and 55 degrees by noon. Not bad right? Well, by mid afternoon the rain came followed by a drop in the temperature of 20 degrees and snow – full circle weather!
While there are plenty of indications that it’s almost time, as per usual, my patience is more than lacking. Colorado State’s Weather Station tells me that our soil temp at 40.5 degrees at 2″ and many freezes still in the near future so we’ll keep the grow light blasting at our seedlings and wait and wait and maybe clean the garden tools again. Woo-Hoo!
Is there a garden fork in your tool shed?
12 years ago
by Blake Schreck
in Garden Tools
Some gardeners say the garden fork is their favorite garden tool and for good reason; it does so many things in the garden. A few of the various jobs the garden fork is suited are:
- Lifting compacted soil to allow air into it.
- Turning the soil to work in soil amendments.
- Harvesting buried crops without damaging them.
- Dividing plantings.
- Turning the compost pile.
- Digging up large clumps of weeds.
- Transplanting perennials without root damage.
Better quality garden forks have sturdy handles made of hardwood (some these days are fiberglass) with a “YD”, “T” or even the seldom seen anymore “D” shape ends. The working end of the garden fork is usually made of high quality carbon or stainless steel and usually have four square or flattened tines. These garden fork heads should be strong with just a little flex to absorb pressures of hard work without bending or breaking.
While the traditional garden fork has been used by farmers and gardeners for hundreds of years, today there are many versions of this garden workhorse. Whether you’re tall or short, have a large vegetable garden, flower beds or some planter boxes on your apartment balcony, you’re sure to find a garden fork that fits you and your gardening likes.
Sneeboer Garden Tools – Art On A Stick
152 years ago
by Blake Schreck
in Garden Tools
Do you have art in your garden shed? If you have a Sneeboer garden tool, you might. Although you probably won’t find them at the Guggenheim Museum, Sneeboer stainless steel garden tools are individually hand-crafted and finished by people who could only be called “Garden Tool Artists”.
Sneeboer & ZN was founded in 1913 by grandfather Arie in the West Friesland district of Holland and later by son Paul. Today, two generations later, brothers Jaap, Frank and Aad continue the tradition of making the highest quality garden tools for the passionate gardener.
“As passionate gardeners like you, we appreciate how important it is to have quality garden products. If you buy one of our tools you actually don’t own this, you only taking care for it for the next generation”. - Jaap Sneeboer
Each Sneeboer garden tool is hand forged of stainless steel, individually shaped, sharpened, and polished into a garden work of art. Sneeboer tools are then fitted with an FSC certified Cherry or Ash hardwood handle from managed forests.
To see more Sneeboer garden tool art; visit Garden Tool Company – your source for the finest garden tools made.
