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Gardening Necessities
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items My favorite gardening tools and things that made working in the garden faster and more prolific! I've been a big gardener for years with very large and sometimes multiple gardens! I like to keep it as simple as possible so I can enjoy my happy place....
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Seeds/Plants & Insecticides
Raised Bed Materials
Gardening Tools
Gardening Accessories & Fencing
Seeds/Plants & Insecticides
From keeping away pests to solving simple toxcicities and deficiencies. I love these products and I'm pretty lazy so if they don't work fast or take too many steps to use I'm not doing it 😂
Saved my garden! Those white moths you see? So pretty but so devastating to your garden! I don't want to hurt them but I also want to enjoy my broccoli. The beatles in your squash? Absolutely terrible for the plant when they hatch. This spray solved...
Monterey B.T. Insecticide Organic Natural Concentrate
In the summer I use this on my plants. I fill a sprayer with a water soap mix using the mint scented dish soap. I get the dish soap because I can use it as dish soap, hand soap, surface cleaner, and this spray mix eliminating buying multiple products...
Mrs. Meyer's Liquid Dish Soap : Mint
This can help control the pH in your soil. It controls odors and some insects. I do not use it frequently but it's great for a lot of other things (see my stable supplies list) so I usually have it on hand anyway.
Barn Lime Fertilizer Enhancer, 50 lb.
GARDEN : I have sprinkled this directly on my plants after a light misting (making sure the product sticks) and the ground around them to prevent tiny pests.
Red Lake Earth Diatomaceous Earth with Calcium Bentonite for Livestock, 4 lb.
Garden : for areas that need looser soil you can add the sawdust and it has worked great tilling it in for my plants that need good drainage. I usually just do a full stall change and dump it on the dirt on the fall to be tilled in. Male sure what yo...
Pelletized Bedding 40 lb.
You do not need the most expensive spinach seeds for the way I use it. Spinach is amazing at ripping nitrogen out of the soil. I use a lot of compost and stall bedding soaked in pee in my garden. This means there's a lot of nitrogen in it. Spinach ca...
Ferry-Morse Spinach Seeds
Raised Bed Materials
This is how I built my raised bed. I thought other pre fab ones were pretty but very expensive. I love that this method is like Legos and I can build it exactly how I want for the same price or less! You can always cut your boards to what you want. D...
I like these because I could move my garden around easily until I found my perfect set up. I can make some parts deeper for my root veggies like carrots. And I can section off plants that like to spread like potatoes and strawberries. To hold them in...
Concrete Planter wall block
4 feet. This is the wood I use for my raised beds. They function with the raised bed bricks also in this list. Make sure you're wood is UNTREATED. To treat it you need to paint it. The chemicals from treated wood can kill your garden plants.
2-in x 6-in x 4-ft #2 UNTREATED Prime Pine Lumber
10ft. Longer board for raised bed build.
2-in x 6-in x 10-ft #2 Prime Southern Yellow Pine Kiln-Dried Lumber
In my garden I like the webbed netting better than the plastic tarp stuff. I feel like I get better drainage. You can do this 2 ways :
Raised Bed : put it in the bottom, fill with thin layer of leaves so you have a compositing bottom layer, and fill...
Sta-Green 50-ft x 3-ft Premium Weed barrier Landscape Fabric
I use these in the hole of the raised bed bricks. They are easy to drive in. But it's very important to either cut them down or drive them into the ground to the same level or just below the brick so there is nothing sticking up to catch yourself or ...
4 ft. x 3/8 in. Round Steel Electric Fence Post
I use these on everything. Quick fence fix if I can't fix it right away. Is much easier and faster to use than wire and more readily available. They least at least 1 year worth hard use. They do just fine multiple years without animals pushing and ch...
8-in Nylon Standard zip ties Black with UV Protection 100 -Pack
Gardening Tools
I don't like hauling around mass amounts of tools so these are my favorites. They are easy to carry around, easy to maintain, and easy to use. Heavy shovels suck, those "weed pullers" don't work, and I don't have room to store 100 tools.
They wash out better than a regular sponge and you can put them in the dishwasher. You can control the stiffness of the sponge with the temperature and amount of water you put it in. This is great for scrubbing off veggies from the garden. I fill my ...
Scrub Daddy Scratch Free Sponges 4 Count
Mine is a bit heavier but for those who want a light weight option this is a must have. Its great for roughing up soil quickly and leveling it. Flip the rake over and it creates a drag effect that spreads dirt to level land.
Lawn rake with Fiberglass Handle
These were the best loppers I ever had. Used them very aggressively for 4 years clearing un imaginable amounts of brush by hand. They still work even with a slightly rolled edge but that's not the blades fault. I had to go through hedge which is the ...
Fiskars PowerGear2 UltraSharp 32-in Steel Bypass Lopper
I love the ruler on this. It helps keep my rows even. I use this to break up dirt after I pull plants out of pots for repotting, I drive it into the dirt near weed roots and pry them out for easy removal, I can cut veggies off the plant or saw off pa...
Corona 8-in Stainless steel knife
These are easier for me to use than the curved ones. A lot of times when I'm pruning and can't see the best in the dense leaves I can't tell where the curve is. When the blade it straight I've got better aim. I also use these to trim my goats hooves ...
Corona ComfortGEL Stainless steel Garden snip
Gardening Accessories & Fencing
I've used a lot of fencing, mesh, and spent so much money over the years to find things that don't work. So take it from me before you waste your money!
This is much better for in ground gardens, areas where you are putting down rock, and under the deck before you add sand or rock. It drains but much slower than the webbed material. It's much easier to roll out. Cut holes where you want plants. Then ...
Hanes 100-ft x 6-ft Professional Weed barrier Landscape Fabric
The 16ft panels give you the best height options so you can walk under them easily. Place all your T posts. Fix your panel to one side of T posts (I use thicker zip ties, you can use Tpost fixers too. I will post them as well). Bend it up and fix it ...
16 ft. x 50 in. Cattle Fence Panel FOR BEAN/PEA/SQUASH TRELLACE
Smaller squares for people that want a uniform look because the cattle panels have different size squares. Look at my cattle panel post for tips on how to make your trellace!
16 ft. x 48 in. Feedlot Panel FOR TRELLACE
These are used to attack the fence to the Tpost. Eventually I will try to get videos up but you can also Google how to install them. There is a tool for this but I use pliers for now.
Fence Fork T-Post Clips 100pk
I use these on every Tpost I put in. Tpost tops are sharp and if you fall on them they can do damage. Please protect yourself and your animals! This is a rubber slip on cap. Very easy to place and not bulky like other caps.
CZ Engineering Safe-T-Post Fence Post Caps, 25-Pack
Fence fixators for Tposts
GARDEN CRAFT 4-in x 4-in Silver Metal Universal Mounting Bracket Fasteners For Garden Fence 25 -Pack
I use these on everything. Quick fence fix if I can't fix it right away. Is much easier and faster to use than wire and more readily available. They least at least 1 year worth hard use. They do just fine multiple years without animals pushing and ch...
8-in Nylon Standard zip ties Black with UV Protection 100 -Pack
If you are using these to build your trellace I highly recommend actual t posts, not the light duty ones in the gardening section. The cattle panel will put a lot of pressure on these posts and the light weight ones bends. Get 5ft posts and put caps ...
T-Post with Anchor Plate