Plant Gardens 101

Some people enjoy the sweat and the work out from using manual garden tools while others prefer the ease of usage and speed conferred by powered garden tools. The size of your garden will determine the type of tools you need. There is no point getting big powered tools for a small lawn. Powered tools in general confer speed and power. Some small powered tools are useful even for a small garden. If you considering or have decide to buy a set of powered garden tools, take a moment and find out what you should look out for.

The common large powered garden tools are lawn mower, powered saw and leaves blower. For small garden, these may be not necessary. However, most people will benefit from having powered shears as it provides power for cutting thick stems and branches, which are common gardening tasks.

Cordless grass Shears
For small jobs, a cordless grass shears is ideal. Cordless grass shears are perfect for the inaccessible where a lawn mower cannot reach such as landscaped or raised flowerbeds. With this, you can easily trim the overgrown grass that is close to your flowers and shrubs without worries. When shopping around for cordless grass shears, look for batteries, which provide the maximum amount of cutting per each battery charge. Nickel cadmium battery is preferred, as it is long lasting as well as safe to use and store. (more…)

We would all love to have beautiful water features in our gardens, but what about the electricity costs of running them? What if it was possible to keep running that picturesque water fountain in these times of rising fuel prices? Well, it is, if you choose a solar powered water feature.

It’s difficult to truly sit down and relax in ones own little garden, even with the soothing trickle of water playing on the pebbles of your favourite water feature. Why? Because you’re thinking about your electricity bill and the cost running those wonderful therapeutic little devices.

Well, why don’t you truly relax and forget about those bills. How? Don’t have any bills to begin with! (at least not for your fountain), switch to Solar Powered Water Features.

The benefits of solar power all too well documented in this day and age, but here are a few things to think about which may have slipped your mind. (more…)

Every garden owner knows the peace and tranquility imbued by water features. But the cost can be enough to deter many these days due to the cost of electricity. These are not the only costs we should take into account when we think about buying water features. The costs to the environment due to the large amounts of electricity they consume are far reaching.

Even a small water pump for our back garden pond can be expensive when we consider that it is running 24 hours per day for 7 days a week, every day of the month. This can easily mount up to $30 per month to run. Factor in a water fountain or one other water feature and you’re talking $60 per month! You can recover the cost of a solar powered water feature after just one or two months of use at these prices.

The environmental costs of energy production are also something which we should not overlook. The production of refined oil from oil shale is an intensive process which not only requires a lot of energy in itself but also produces a lot of useless waste products. Mining of coal and oil, both above ground and below, causes unnatural elevations of the land and displaces a lot of flora and fauna from its natural habitat. (more…)