Garden Supplies

One perfectly good container for your house plants is an old baking pan. A good-sized pan of this kind will hold quite a number of plants, and, painted a lively color, will not disgrace your living room in the least. Not everyone has an old baking pan to spare so there are a good many Continue Reading …

All red clay pots have a drainage hole at the bottom to let out excess water or to act as an inlet for moisture with those plants which are bottom-watered. The disadvantage with these containers is that many people find them so plain as to be ugly. Because they are so readily available, and because Continue Reading …

A cultivator is a miniature rake which is used in scratching fertilizer and plant food into the soil. A sharp knife is an essential tool for many of the chores required in the home garden. A pocket knife will do the trick very well. As we have already said, house plant pots come in every Continue Reading …

Watering cans come in every shape and size imaginable, but without doubt the best kind available on the market today is the type with the long thin spout which is pictured here. It is particularly useful in watering around the base of plants whose foliage should not be wetted, such as the African Violet or Continue Reading …

Since most house plants are kept in relatively small pots, the most convenient trowel you can get is one that is less than 3″ at the top of the blade. They are inexpensive and easily available. Bulb sprayers come in varying sizes and are used to wet the foliage of most plants. For house plants Continue Reading …

There is no reason that you can’t get along adequately without buying one of the tools listed and illustrated below. You can use a kitchen fork for a cultivator, and you can use the teapot to water your plants. But these tools have been designed to fulfill the specific functions for which they are made, Continue Reading …

The beginner who walks into his garden supply store—or even a large florist shop—is going to be overwhelmed at the number and variety of home garden equipment he is going to find on sale. There are literally hundreds of different kinds of pots and trays, dibbles and trowels, hand rakes and sprayers on the market. Continue Reading …