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Brush Clearing – Tools to Make Your Job Easier
So, you’ve let things get a little out of hand or maybe you just want to take back a portion of your land for more garden area. Let’s not kid ourselves, this is and never will be an easy task, so having the right tools for the job will certainly help you out. Though the [...]
Garden Tools for Schools Giveaway Winners
Choosing winners from the many fabulous entrants to our Garden Tools for Schools Giveaway was a very difficult task to say the least. Entrants included programs for the disabled, inner-city schools, schools just establishing a garden and a great number of other worthy applicants. [...]
Eight Tips to Make Your Gardening Easier
Gardening can be a lot of work, so why not try some tips to make it simpler. You can’t have a maintenance free garden but you can do things to make it easier on yourself. 1. Use Raised Beds and Containers – Raised beds can make it easier to amend the soil and require less [...]
A Garden Tool to Save Your Back
Most gardeners have at one time or another had to move a large garden pot, weather it was to move it in the house for the winter or just re-arranging. Not only is it difficult because of its awkward size, but also the back breaking weight. Well now you can carry those large heavy pots [...]
Growing Business vs Growing Seeds
We live in a house that would never be considered spacious and as Garden Tool Company continues to grow and we make every effort to stock all that we sell and the stuff required to ship it, it seems to get smaller by the day. Last year we built a second shed but that was [...]
A Garden for All of Us
Here in Fort Collins, we have a wonderful community botanic garden called The Gardens on Spring Creek. My favorite things about it are the high level of community involvement encouraged, the whimsical artwork featured and the focus on plants that thrive in the area. Classes are offered in everything from growing vegetables and other area [...]
Planning Your Garden…Tools
Planning this spring’s garden can be fun activity and it can be a bit overwhelming. Those garden supply and seed catalogs have been filling your mailbox and every year the gorgeous pictures in these catalogs give us an idea of what gardens and vegetables look like in the perfect world…you know, that world that has [...]
The Perfect Garden Hose
I absolutely hate it when I am out watering and suddenly the water pressure is gone. Inevitably it is the result of a kink in my hose that I have to go find and straighten out. Thank goodness we recently found the Tuff Guard hose that is designed to be virtually unkinkable. You can even [...]
Red Pig Garden Tools…Handmade, Hardworking and Made in the USA
When was the last time you had something in your hand that was truly handmade? Probably a long time, right? The days of products being made by a person and not a machine have gone by the wayside…well, not so! There’s a small blacksmith shop in Boring, OR that still makes garden tools the old [...]
The Best Gardening Gifts Should Last a Lifetime!
Is it a gardening gift you’re buying or just more garden junk? Gifts for the gardener seem all the rage these days and because of that, it seems that every garden and non- garden retailer wants to sell you the “Perfect Garden Gift”. So, what is a good gift for the gardener in your life? [...]
Beauty and Brawn – the Dutch Tulip Trowel
Does your soil bend a cheap trowel? If you are planting in hard clay soil, you will love the new tulip trowel from DeWit Tools. It may be called a tulip trowel but it will be a go to tool for all your planting needs. You won’t believe how sturdy the hand forged boron steel [...]
Fall Garden Clean-Up…Don’t Forget the Tools.
OK, OK…I’ll do it! The weather people are telling us (if we can ever believe them) that our first taste of winter is coming in a couple of days. What this means is that I really can’t procrastinate any longer about cleaning up the garden tools and putting them up for the winter. I have [...]
Garden Trowels – They’re All The Same…Right?
It wasn’t too long ago that if you went looking for a garden trowel, you could go to 10 different places and buy a trowel at each place and you’d end up 10 almost identical looking trowels. And that was fine; I mean, all we used them for was digging small holes, planting, potting and [...]
Best Garden Tools…How Do You Know?
The phrase “best garden tools” is a bit subjective. If you’re a “gardener” once a year when spring rolls around, then a less expensive tool from one of the big box stores might be “best” enough. On the other hand, if you’re an avid gardener that depends on your tools to work as hard as [...]
A Riot in the Garden
Blake and I love to garden, but we aren’t those people who worry a lot about all the names of the plants and the precise placement of them. Instead we enjoy finding a different color, look or texture and then just adding it in wherever there happens to be an empty spot. Because of this, [...]
A Spot of Tea for Our Plants
In recent years Blake and I have been trying to become more green when we garden. Gone are the days of pouring all types of chemicals on the plants and weeds for fertilizing or controlling those pesky, prolific weeds. These days we pay close attention to what goes on the plants we grow, into our [...]
Growing Potatoes in Cages
Last year we did not have a lot of luck growing potatoes in our raised beds, so this year we decided to give cages a try. We used some leftover wire fencing and made three cages. Then we mixed up some compost and straw in each cage and put our seed potatoes into them. As [...]
The Cadillac of Crack Weeders
It’s been quite some time since I wrote about weeders but with our recent month of rain, they are back on my mind because everything has been growing rampantly after all the moisture – especially the weeds. In addition to the weeds that seem to spring up everywhere, our front flowerbeds are full of Cosmos, [...]
Share Your Love of Gardening
I have a true passion for working in the garden – so much so – that I told my Mother that instead of a traditional funeral, I want people to plant and dance after I die. Helping something grow reenergizes me in a way that nothing else can, and for me, it has always been [...]
Homegrown Tomatos Rule
When it comes to vegetable gardening, it’s hard to beat the taste of a homegrown tomato, and who doesn’t love a homemade sauce or salsa. I guess that’s why the tomato is the most talked about (or written about) vegetable when gardening time rolls around. This year, the National Gardening Bureau has named the tomato [...]
So, you’ve let things get a little out of hand or maybe you just want to take back a portion of your land for more garden area. Let’s not kid ourselves, this is and never will be an easy task, so having the right tools for the job will certainly help you out. Though the [...]
Garden Tools for Schools Giveaway Winners
Choosing winners from the many fabulous entrants to our Garden Tools for Schools Giveaway was a very difficult task to say the least. Entrants included programs for the disabled, inner-city schools, schools just establishing a garden and a great number of other worthy applicants. [...]
Eight Tips to Make Your Gardening Easier
Gardening can be a lot of work, so why not try some tips to make it simpler. You can’t have a maintenance free garden but you can do things to make it easier on yourself. 1. Use Raised Beds and Containers – Raised beds can make it easier to amend the soil and require less [...]
A Garden Tool to Save Your Back
Most gardeners have at one time or another had to move a large garden pot, weather it was to move it in the house for the winter or just re-arranging. Not only is it difficult because of its awkward size, but also the back breaking weight. Well now you can carry those large heavy pots [...]
Growing Business vs Growing Seeds
We live in a house that would never be considered spacious and as Garden Tool Company continues to grow and we make every effort to stock all that we sell and the stuff required to ship it, it seems to get smaller by the day. Last year we built a second shed but that was [...]
A Garden for All of Us
Here in Fort Collins, we have a wonderful community botanic garden called The Gardens on Spring Creek. My favorite things about it are the high level of community involvement encouraged, the whimsical artwork featured and the focus on plants that thrive in the area. Classes are offered in everything from growing vegetables and other area [...]
Planning Your Garden…Tools
Planning this spring’s garden can be fun activity and it can be a bit overwhelming. Those garden supply and seed catalogs have been filling your mailbox and every year the gorgeous pictures in these catalogs give us an idea of what gardens and vegetables look like in the perfect world…you know, that world that has [...]
The Perfect Garden Hose
I absolutely hate it when I am out watering and suddenly the water pressure is gone. Inevitably it is the result of a kink in my hose that I have to go find and straighten out. Thank goodness we recently found the Tuff Guard hose that is designed to be virtually unkinkable. You can even [...]
Red Pig Garden Tools…Handmade, Hardworking and Made in the USA
When was the last time you had something in your hand that was truly handmade? Probably a long time, right? The days of products being made by a person and not a machine have gone by the wayside…well, not so! There’s a small blacksmith shop in Boring, OR that still makes garden tools the old [...]
The Best Gardening Gifts Should Last a Lifetime!
Is it a gardening gift you’re buying or just more garden junk? Gifts for the gardener seem all the rage these days and because of that, it seems that every garden and non- garden retailer wants to sell you the “Perfect Garden Gift”. So, what is a good gift for the gardener in your life? [...]
Beauty and Brawn – the Dutch Tulip Trowel
Does your soil bend a cheap trowel? If you are planting in hard clay soil, you will love the new tulip trowel from DeWit Tools. It may be called a tulip trowel but it will be a go to tool for all your planting needs. You won’t believe how sturdy the hand forged boron steel [...]
Fall Garden Clean-Up…Don’t Forget the Tools.
OK, OK…I’ll do it! The weather people are telling us (if we can ever believe them) that our first taste of winter is coming in a couple of days. What this means is that I really can’t procrastinate any longer about cleaning up the garden tools and putting them up for the winter. I have [...]
Garden Trowels – They’re All The Same…Right?
It wasn’t too long ago that if you went looking for a garden trowel, you could go to 10 different places and buy a trowel at each place and you’d end up 10 almost identical looking trowels. And that was fine; I mean, all we used them for was digging small holes, planting, potting and [...]
Best Garden Tools…How Do You Know?
The phrase “best garden tools” is a bit subjective. If you’re a “gardener” once a year when spring rolls around, then a less expensive tool from one of the big box stores might be “best” enough. On the other hand, if you’re an avid gardener that depends on your tools to work as hard as [...]
A Riot in the Garden
Blake and I love to garden, but we aren’t those people who worry a lot about all the names of the plants and the precise placement of them. Instead we enjoy finding a different color, look or texture and then just adding it in wherever there happens to be an empty spot. Because of this, [...]
A Spot of Tea for Our Plants
In recent years Blake and I have been trying to become more green when we garden. Gone are the days of pouring all types of chemicals on the plants and weeds for fertilizing or controlling those pesky, prolific weeds. These days we pay close attention to what goes on the plants we grow, into our [...]
Growing Potatoes in Cages
Last year we did not have a lot of luck growing potatoes in our raised beds, so this year we decided to give cages a try. We used some leftover wire fencing and made three cages. Then we mixed up some compost and straw in each cage and put our seed potatoes into them. As [...]
The Cadillac of Crack Weeders
It’s been quite some time since I wrote about weeders but with our recent month of rain, they are back on my mind because everything has been growing rampantly after all the moisture – especially the weeds. In addition to the weeds that seem to spring up everywhere, our front flowerbeds are full of Cosmos, [...]
Share Your Love of Gardening
I have a true passion for working in the garden – so much so – that I told my Mother that instead of a traditional funeral, I want people to plant and dance after I die. Helping something grow reenergizes me in a way that nothing else can, and for me, it has always been [...]
Homegrown Tomatos Rule
When it comes to vegetable gardening, it’s hard to beat the taste of a homegrown tomato, and who doesn’t love a homemade sauce or salsa. I guess that’s why the tomato is the most talked about (or written about) vegetable when gardening time rolls around. This year, the National Gardening Bureau has named the tomato [...]