My job rules.
I get to be around cool products that I like all day long. And I get to take them home sometimes, too!
In fact, my wife might tell you that I like our products a little bit too much. At our previous home, I had 12 different compost bins going in our back yard. No joke! (I’m down to just two bins at our current residence — smaller back yard, you see.)
This season, I’m trying out a new raised bed planter. It was easy to install, and I’m going to plant this weekend. I even set it up with a drip irrigation system that’s hooked up to our sprinkler system. We’re talking seriously low maintenance gardening.
I’m also excited about these fabric pots. They’re kind of ugly looking, but they help with aeration for the roots, allow heat to dissipate, and keep you from overwatering. I’m planning to grow a tomato plant in one to see how it does.
And I also like these coco fiber growing medium bricks. Coco Pith (also known as Coir) is a natural byproduct of coconut plantations. It’s a renewable resource with several advantages over peat moss. It holds water without any additives and absorbs water evenly without any beading on the surface. Coir also has more nutrients, a neutral pH balance and remains effective for up to 5 years. It works great as a potting soil or as a soil amendment to your garden instead of peat.
I can already see how this post will be 10,000 words long if I keep going about all of the products I like. Can I just briefly mention this cool organic fertilizer too? I can’t decide which I like better, the packaging, or the fertilizer itself.
So, what’s your favorite gardening product?
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Cool products!
I really love my cape cod weeder (http://www.cleanairgardening.com/capecod.html)! Now that spring is in full swing, I’ve been using it like crazy to get my flower beds all cleaned out from the winter.
Tumbleweed Compost Tumbler. Seemed great and assembled
easily. Unfortunately I think some parts were missing because when the contents increased and became weighty, the bin fell off the stand and the rod fell out! Now I’ve got to empty the thing, reallign the center rod and try to locate wing nuts or something to reattach to the stand. Much more than I intended to do. This is actually more difficult than my traditional free standing composters.
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Hi Lisa,
That can happen if the nuts aren’t fully tightened when you put the Tumbleweed together. They can work looser, and pop off. We have plenty of spare parts, and we’d be happy to get some out to you.
You can put it back together without emptying the bin. You just flip it so that the legs are up in the air and the bin is on the ground. Then reattach the center rod (with the spare parts, or if you see the nut lying near the composter). Then, just get someone to help lift it back up when you flip the legs back underneath to hold it up again.