How To: Prepping for Garden Season
I put my garden basket together a couple weeks back. It sits on a little pink chair (that’s older than me) under our kitchen bar where the cats can regularly smell and inspect it. Because that’s the important part.
Inside the basket, I keep the basic tools I need for quick planting or harvesting:
Iron scissors
Gardening knife
Twine pin
Gardening gloves & arm guards (we have a lot of vicious black raspberry bushes—last 2 photos)
Plant markers & a Sharpie
Notebook & pencil
Hand towel
Hat
SPF lip balm
I love that the set’s portable—if we take a last-minute foraging jaunt, all I have to do is grab the basket and go. And if I need to empty the basket to collect leaves, flowers, or roots, everything fits inside the hand towel—just tie it up and go.
My larger, hard-core gardening kit stays outside under the potting bench. Instead of a basket, these tools stay in a rolling cart that doubles as a seat for planting and weeding. Inside I keep an aluminum trowel, two weeders, sisal twine, more scissors, a knee pad, and a bucket for gathering all those weeds.
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