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Every gardener needs an outdoor sink station

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I was browsing through gardening sites earlier today trying to get ideas for our garden and I came across this fantastic Outdoor Sink Station.

I don’t know about you, but each spring and then in early summer I spend a lot of time outdoors planting seedlings that I’ve grown indoors during the late winter and early spring months, or flats of plants that I’ve purchased from a local nursery.

Planting is messy business! Heck, even weeding or spending time putting fresh soil and compost on the garden is a dirty job.

Rather than trudge inside with dirty hands (my shoes, socks and clothing are usually well dusted too!) it would be nice to have a sink outdoors.

An outdoor sink would also come in handy when it comes time to pluck radishes, carrots, potatoes and other veggies from the soil. You could easily give them a rinse before bringing them into your kitchen.

If you use your backyard and or garden for entertaining guests – sitting outdoors barbecuing on the grill and eating outdoors it might also be handy to have a sink nearby.

What I really like about this Outdoor Sink Station is that there’s also a full size hose located at the bottom of the station. So you might end up having access to a hose closer to the garden than you did in the past. Plus the outdoor sink hose reel has a water-powered engine inside which uses water power to automatically reel-in the hose!






Squirrelly over sunflower seeds

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Wordless Wednesday

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Squirrels sure do some crazy things to get to those tasty seeds don’t they?

Do you have any funny tales or photos of animals doing something silly on your property?

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I’m looking forward to the first greens of spring

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Pink Hyacinth buds

In honour of both St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) and Spring (March 20th) falling on the same week I thought it was appropriate that I post some photos of the type of greenery and flower buds that I hope to begin seeing sometime in the next two to three weeks.

Our gardens are still covered in two or three feet of snow. Quite unusual for any winter around here let alone this time of year. However, I suspect that deep beneath the snow my spring flower bulbs know that it’s warming up and that they are preparing to emerge from the ground.

The photo above is of pink hyacinth buds developing. I expect to see some plants that look just like this by no later than mid April. Below is one of the first flowers that I’ll see. It’s a yellow crocus. I also grow purple crocus’ too. I expect to see these harbingers of spring as soon as most of the snow is gone. Often I see crocus’ by March 25th or so.

Yellow Crocus again

Along with Tulips, daffodils, and several other types of spring flowers and bulbs we should begin to see hosta’s emerging from the earth by the middle of April and with luck, if it’s been a nice Spring they should be at least this big by mid-May or earlier:

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Do you photograph your garden and the plants you grow in different stages? From the first green leaves to the first flower buds?

Once the snow melts away I’ll have to start getting to my spring tasks! I look forward to seeing new plants emerge much more than cleaning up the garden, but it all goes together doesn’t it?

Since you’ll soon be preparing your garden for the growing season why not stock up on gardening tools, a no crank hose reel and other gardening accessories at Gardeners Choice?

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