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Gardening, The Gardener’s Journal – Dk Green Hard Cover (prompts on every page, recycled paper, read more…)

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:09:41 +0000

Help remember all of your planting experiences with this simple to fill-in format. Each of our journals is complete with thoughtful prompts right to the Journals Unlimited style. Gardening, The Gardeners Journal features prompts including; Weather (precipitation, temperature, sunlight, shading, other elements), Activities in the garden (seeds planted, bulbs, blooms, growth, highlights), and Wildlife (birds, butterflies, other critters). The backside of every page is lined for special notes and memories that may help your garden next season or events that may make you smile when you read it another day. Life is an adventure, Write it Down & treasure the memory forever. (Window frame varies, four colors.)

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:11:43 +0000

The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring small cash outlay or watering. Currently well loved intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies - working an average of two hours a day during the growing season. Steve Solomon is a well-known west coast gardener and author of five previous books, including Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades which has appeared in five editions.

Fiskars 9413 30-Gallon Hard Shell Base Kangaroo Gardening Container

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:03:11 +0000

The Fiskars HardShell Kangaroo Container has the same unique pop-up design of the standard Kangaroo Bag, which holds itself open to free both hands for gathering and loading. This collapsible, 30-gallon container is perfect for yard waste and debris collection. Its HardShell bottom prevents your Kangaroo from tearing as you drag heavy loads across gravel and pavement. Holes positioned in the HardShell bottom allow for ventilation and water drainage. It has a unique coiled internal skeleton that makes a sturdy container. The Kangaroo's durable polyvinyl and polyester construction makes it tear-, UV-, and mildew-resistant. The container also has cushioned handles to make carrying a load more comfortable, and can be used with or without a standard trash bag. The HardShell Kangaroo Container features a unique toggle-and-loop closure system that's simple to use. This bag features a convenient dump handle allowing for simple disposal of its contents. When expanded, the container measures 28 inches high with a 22-inch diameter and weighs 4-1/2 pounds. It is covered by a 2-year warranty.