Okay, I know it's almost the middle of spring already, but hey winter is just around the corner, right? Anyway, for all you northern gardeners out there, this might be just what you have been looking for. It's a heated garden hose. Cool, huh? This seems to fall under that "I wish I had thought of that" rule. Anyway, supposedly, you just plug the hose into an outdoor electric plug, then a faucet and you are good to go. The only problem I can see from this is that we all know that water and electricity don't mix. I'm sure this is perfectly safe and all, but I don't imagine that too many people have GFCI outlets right next to a water faucet. Plus the fact that the hose itself will run you almost $200. But to some people, it might be worth it to have nice toasty running water while the temps are below freezing for 6 months out of the year. Anyway if you have that much money burning a hole in your pocket, you can get this jewel here.Heated water hose
I was finally able to get a few shots of the updated growth in my garden beds. The plants themselves are not only growing but the weeds are also, unfortunately. The onion plants and lettuce are doing very well and I think the cool temps that we have been having have really given them some energy. The cabbage seems to be growing pretty well, but seem to have some signs of pests. I haven't actually seen the critters, but the leaves do have some holes in them. I've never grown cabbage before, so I hope it's nothing to worry about. The small bed that I have some strawberries in seems to be doing rather well. I have always had a problem getting the strawberries to survive the hot summer, but the plants that I have now are about a year old so these made it through the heat last year. I'm trying to do a little experiment this year. I planted some tomato plants among the strawberries. My hope is that by the time the tomatoes have grown full size, the strawberries will have finish producing. Then the tomato plants will shade the strawberries through the summer......in theory. I did realize, however that when I was planting the tomato plants, I realized that my soil in this particular bed is really not good at all. When I created the bed, I really didn't know much about soil preparation and there is a lot of clay and very black dirt. I'm surprised anything has grown in there at all. Anyway, we will see what happens. Enjoy the pictures.
It's hard to see the good stuff for all the weeds, but I hope to clean this up sometime this week.
The lettuce has not started making heads yet, but they look pretty healthy
This is the bed of strawberries and tomatoes. You can barely make out the cages for the tomato plants. You may see some rebar sticking up. I have to use this to keep my cages from blowing away. We have a lot of wind here at our house and last year I really had a problem with my cages blowing over and harming the plants. I hope this fixes it this year.
Here are a few berries poking there heads out looking for sunshine. Yummy!
This is the petunias that made it through the winter. They are going crazy! These are almost 1 year old.
Those of you who know me are probably aware that I take a particular interest in gadgets of all sorts. So when I saw this little product, I thought "wow, that's just what I need!" Unfortunately, I don't need it that much considering it costs $160. I am referring to the cool little toy that is a time lapse plant watcher type thing. What it does is record images of your plants in your garden over a period of time and then puts the images together in a video file that you can download to your computer. I think it would be fun to watch the flowers grow in my own garden. Plus I might actually catch a glimpse of whatever critter might be digging in my flower bed from time to time. Anyway if you want to know more about this little jewel, just click on the link.Timelapse Garden Video Camera
Okay, I know it's almost the middle of spring already, but hey winter is just around the corner, right? Anyway, for all you northern gardeners out there, this might be just what you have been looking for. It's a heated garden hose. Cool, huh? This seems to fall under that "I wish I had thought of that" rule. Anyway, supposedly, you just plug the hose into an outdoor electric plug, then a faucet and you are good to go. The only problem I can see from this is that we all know that water and electricity don't mix. I'm sure this is perfectly safe and all, but I don't imagine that too many people have GFCI outlets right next to a water faucet. Plus the fact that the hose itself will run you almost $200. But to some people, it might be worth it to have nice toasty running water while the temps are below freezing for 6 months out of the year. Anyway if you have that much money burning a hole in your pocket, you can get this jewel here.
