Assembled my Gardeners Supply Garden Scooter today, you know the one that you can sit on and steer? It sure made my work in the garden a lot easier. The small basket in the back held my seed packets and spade, the tray held my pocket knife, the covers for my EBs, velcro tape and my pruner thus saving me many exhausting steps going back and forth to fetch what I need and the steering made it much easier. Best $70 bucks I ever spent...
Used My New Garden SCooter Today
Good for you, Tplant. I bought my tractor seat scooter before the one with the turning mechanism came on the market. It is still a helpful friend...the revolving seat allows me to bend and extend my reach without toppling over. The tool tray is handy, too. Even fully able-bodied gardeners would enjoy these units. Yuska
This is my second. The first one ,like yours, got a good work out by me and my family so I decided to buy the up dated one that has the tool basket in addition to the old features plus steering. However this one is for my personal use only.
I just got one and have been enjoying it except for the fact that it's hard for me to move it from one end of the yard to the other. I asked my son-in-law to make me a rope "leash" but he has asked a friend who welds to make me a longer version of the mechanism that is already there. I am willing to have a longer handle that might be in my way in order not to have to bend over, grab the little handle and then hurt my back getting it to my next work area. I love being able to carry more stuff around with me, though I still have my weed bucket and my tool cleaning sprayer and a couple of other things, like water bottles that I am working out places for.
gram --- Can't most of the things, like your water bottles, fit under the seat in the tray?
Hi Tplant---Yes, the smaller things can. I also have my camera in there in a baggie to keep it clean and dry. I have long-handled tools like a rake and a grabber and my tool-cleaning spray bottle, and I just haven't worked out how to make it all work together yet. The little basket on the back is good for my snail bait bottle, my ant bait bottle (first year we've had such a terrible problem with them) and I can fit in a small tool or so.
I am also starting to carry Clorox wipes so that I can wipe down my tools as I go and that bottle fits in the back basket. What I am thinking is that I could put some of those in baggies a few each day and eliminate one more thing that doesn't really fit. Those little baggies would be perfect in the tray. That way I would not have to use my tool cleaning solution until the end of my "shift".
I think some of the tools I was trying to carry in my regular holder today just need to go into the tray. How do you carry/hold your tools? Do you use any of the long-handled ones? Those are harder to drag along.
My pathways are not smooth. They are flagstone with gravel between, or just plain grass, and I found today that some of it was harder than I expected. Got to just keep figuring out new ways to do things.
I am allowed one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening, so I leave the real clean-up until I am completely done for that day.
Where is Pembroke Pines, Tplant? I just returned from visiting my son at Port Richey on the west coast. I am working on a plan to help him make a pretty front yard and just received two used Amazon.com books on tropical gardening to see if I can find any cool ideas. What all do you grow? Do you use raised beds?
Diane
I want one!!
Hi Diane --- Pembroke Pines is a fairly large community that is SW of Ft Laud and goes clear out to the everglades in the west and butts up to Hollywood in the East and Margate to the south.
All my gardening is done with earthboxes which is a patented process that can be found at www.earthbox.com The EBs, as I call them for short, are about 12 or more inches off the ground and require no strenuous bending or reaching nor long handled tools of any kind nor weeding, I only fertilize once per season and have no soil borne problems. Overwatering is impossible as it has it's own resevoir and an overflow drain so you can not overwater. It comes with a fitted flexible plastic cover so you never have to weed. All you do is add water everyday or so, depending on what you are growing. My main crop are heirloom tomatos in the cooler seasons and melons, right now, in the hotter seasons. I've made a lot of people a very happy gardener by suggesting this method as the results far outdo the in-ground plantings. You can grow much more in less space. I have fourteen of them. Try just one. They are great in combination with my garden scooter. I can play out there all day without straining myself or bending over and I don't have to drag all those cumbersome tools with me. I'll be posting pictures later today in the Vegetable Gardening forum under the Melons. This picture shows a small piece of my tomato garden...
Those clorox wipes are a great idea? Thanks!!
Hi, folks. I'm enjoying my scooter, too. I'm using mostly hand tools. Just got some of the Oxo ones with the cushioned handles. They have fairly long handles. I planted 2 miniature rose bushes with just the small spade and cultivator yesterday sitting on my scooter.
About the earth boxes. There's a fairly long thread on the container gardening forum about them,too. I have a couple of the self-watering tomato kits from Gardener's supply that work a lot like the EB's. I've got tomatoes and bell peppers. Nothing to the extent that Tplant has. But it works for me. This pic was taken a week ago and they are at least 3 times this size now and have some flowers. They didn't get planted until June 1, so not too shabby.
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