Gift ideas for Gardeners! 👨🌾✂️🌳
Marjory and I were discussing a question from the Live Call Ask Me Anything about great gifts for gardeners. Here is a list of some of those items!
Lettuce Grow: https://amzn.to/3FhZ9o6
Hand pump: https://amzn.to/3USbYLn
Hori Hori Options: https://amzn.to/3Hn40ah
Uncle Jim's Amazon Store: https://amzn.to/3FfOU3v
Feel free to add your great gifts for gardeners suggestions below : )
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I've got to say...
Seeds.
These interest me for finer weeding, but I'm not too sure of their quality:
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@LaurieLovesLearning I have a similar tool that I got from Lee Valley Tools. I have been using it for about 20 years now for weeding. It has had it's edges bent and chipped on rocks but it is easy to sharpen and is one of the quickest ways I have found to cut weeds off right below ground in the greenhouse. One unfortunate thing about it - it is small so not suited for huge areas - better to get a stirrup hoe for that! and the other is - Lee Valley doesn't appear to carry it anymore.
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@Marjory Wildcraft recommend the Hori Hori before and I got one last year and I love it!!!!
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aaawww, thank you Lisa 🤗
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These are all great ideas. My significant other’s son and family just bought a home and they would like to do a garden this year. I was thinking of sharing some seeds and getting them a cardboard roll or plastic to set up a no till garden, and then helping them with setting it up here when it gets warmer (we are in Michigan, so it might take some time to have a warmer day). He (and his father) are into rototilling, so I am trying to get both gardens a little healthier. Other suggestions? Books? Videos on how to garden?
Thansk! —Christina
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So...I didn't know what a hori hori was and now I want one :)
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@annbeck62 Not like we are enablers or anything. 😏
First a hori hori, then a _____, 😂
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These all great ideas! I have garden books and a hand trowel. I use a wooden pencil with tape to measure the depth which works great! I don't use very many tools in my garden. A square foot garden book really does help!
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I am also seriously into bare handed gardening :)
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@Marjory Wildcraft I LOVE earthing, digging in the dirt, getting my whole body covered with dirt from head to toe. It perhaps is the best part of gardening —- just gardening!
Any suggestions to get a newbie interested in healthy gardening? Right I have giving them some of my seeds.
Thanks!
-Christina
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I just bought a mushroom kit as a Christmas gift for a friend. You can buy small kits for inside or plug spawn to inoculate a pile of logs.
I've purchased from this company before with excellent service and products but it is Canadian and they don't ship internationally.
Other Canadian companies include:
http://www.homegrownmushroom.ca/
Amazon.com has a selection of different kits from US companies. Not supporting Amazon here, just using them for the list of mushroom kits and companies. Includes 2funguys, North Spore, Back to the Roots, etc.
Several companies in the UK listed with Amazon.uk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/mushroom-growing-kit/s?k=mushroom+growing+kit
These two are from the EU.
https://www.goba.eu/en/products/mushroom-cultivation/mushroom-cultivation-kits/
https://nackrosgarden.com/collections/mushroom-grow-kits
These two are from Australia.
https://aussiemushroomsupplies.com.au/
https://littleacre.com.au/collections/mushroom-grow-kits
I'm sure there are lots of other companies. Just found these on a quick search.
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Oh those mushroom kits are a great gifts for newbies.
Gifting them with your homegrown food - jellies, tomato sauces, pestos, etc. - when they taste how good it is it often inspires prople to grow thier own.
Some potted plants ready to harvest like mint or basil are super fun to give to people. They can put those herbs into drinks and dishes and make that harvest to eat connection right away.
Movies? Like fantasic fungi - well it des pormote medical mushrooms and that might not want to be a message you send, but it is definitley inspiring. The Global Gardener by Bill Mollison is an oldie but goodie. Defimntiely inspring for how to create an abundaent life.
Hmm, people do love those small hyrdo ponic or aeroponic systems. I'm tyring to connect up with the "Lettuce Grow" folks who have a really nice aeroponic growing system. A bit pricey at like $600? But if you create a food growing addict - hah! it is worth it. :)
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WOW This is a great post thread! Lots of information! Now to start sorting through, because it all sounds good!
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@Marjory Wildcraft what great ideas! I especially like giving something like a mushroom farm or herbal plants like basil and food made with that item! My Mom and two sisters used to hire me to cook Sally Fallon’s liver pate recipe for them …. so to bring their Favorite liver pate and perhaps made with lions mane mushrooms, with a family gift of a lions mane mushroom farm, should be a big hit. Do you have a mint drink you recommend?
For Allan’s son Tanner, Allan and I went through my seeds (I have a couple hundred packets to choose from) and we are thinking of stuffing his (and my nieces and nephews in wool sockings, trying to have an old fashioned Christmas so actual 100% wool socks as a present as well :)
I loved the documentary “Fantastic Fungi,” but yah, this is stiff crowd.
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@heirlooms777 I have always said that you can tell if I had a good weekend if I had to cut my fingernails, had dirt under them Sunday night, was a little sore and/or covered in small cuts (from trimming roses) or bruises 😁
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- Grow lights
- Seeds
- Gift cards for the above
- A membership to the amazing: The Grow Network
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@Cornelius Now how could we forget that? 😂
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Using spoons as little shovels, the smaller jobs.
going barefoot as much as possible.
laying on top of the grass with arms outstretched hugging the Earth.
truly listening to the various birds as they fly by, or as they rest from a long flight
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Since I am regulated to planting in containers on my little patio right now, I love it when my sister finds large pots at garage sales and thrift stores. Pretty ones are nice, and I don't even care if they match.
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