Pond Cleaning Outdoor Gardening Gloves.

I like to have several pairs of gardening gloves for different uses around the garden. I do like the feel of warm earth and plants, but I do have quite sensitive delicate skin so I need to be sensible. 

Gloves keep my hands clean and reduce the risk of cuts and abrasions and any risk of coming into contact with allergic reactions from some plants. In the colder months, they go some way to keeping my hands a bit warmer. This is even more relevant when talking about working in or clearing wildlife or indeed any other type of pond. 

Some gardeners prefer to garden without gloves and I understand that. Personally, I need gloves and especially for those really messy jobs like clearing the pond. 

These Briers Drain & Pond Cleaning Outdoor Gardening Gloves  are great for that as they are arm length so no water seeping in over the top. They are also elasticated at the top for extra protection and are of course waterproof. They are one size but I imagine will fit most people OK. 

Especially in a wildlife garden, there will also be quite a lot of organic matter and you will want to be careful when removing debris so that you do not harm any wildlife. 

It is always best to put any weeds you remove on the side of the pond for a while so that any small creatures can escape back into the water before you dispose of it.  

The Briers Drain & Pond Cleaning Outdoor Gardening Gloves

are very useful as you can grasp and move plants around as well without getting cold water and mud literally up to your elbows or armpits! I find it hard to have my bare hands in cold water for very long so a nice covering and long gloves are essential.

So probably not a product you need every day or even every week, but when you do need them they are very useful indeed! If you know someone who has a wildlife pond they could be a very welcome and thoughtful gift. 

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The Gardening Gift Of Heirloom Vegetable Seeds

To a gardener the gift of seeds is a special one. Now that Christmas and New year are over my thoughts always turn to when can I get back in the garden and buying and growing seeds is an important part of that hope. 

I love how when I buy or receive seeds there is the promise of lovely flowers and tasty vegetables. I love that I get to plant them as tiny seeds, tend them and watch them grow step by step into wonderful plants. I enjoy the whole process.

 It is no quick fix, but eternally satisfying and gives a sense of pride and joy to know you grew your own plants from seed. 

So when I came across this amazing pack of vegetable seeds I had to tell you about it. In 15,000 Non GMO Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Survival Garden 32 Variety Pack by Open Seed Vault there are 32 different vegetable seed types which are non-hybrid and non-GMO which will be important to many people. 

There really is nothing like raising your own veg, picking it fresh from the garden and then eating it. The taste is so different from supermarket veg and somehow you savor it so much more.

If you know anyone who would enjoy growing these then it would be a lovely gift. Or you might like them yourself!

There are full planting and growing instructions for each vegetable and this pack giving over an acre of food could feed a family!  


15,000 Non GMO Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Survival Garden 32 Variety Pack by Open Seed Vault
EACH PACK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING 32 SEED PACKETS: 
1. Tomato Beef Steak ≈ 180 seeds 
2. Eggplant Black Beauty ≈ 80 seeds 
3. Bean Tendergreen Green Bean ≈ 20 seeds 
4. Zucchini Dark Green ≈ 25 seeds 
5. Lettuce Buttercrunch Butterhead ≈ 2280 seeds 
6. Lettuce Ruby Leaf ≈ 2280 seeds 
7. Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson ≈ 2280 seeds 
8. Brussels Sprouts Catskill ≈ 230 seeds 
9. Bell Pepper California Wonder ≈ 40 seeds 
10. Radish Cherry Belle ≈ 180 seeds 
11. Okra Clemson Spineless ≈ 50 seeds 
12. Beet Detroit Dark Red ≈ 180 seeds 
13. Onion Evergreen Bunching ≈ 200 seeds 
14. Cabbage Golden Acre ≈ 280 seeds 
15. Corn Golden Bantam ≈ 45 seeds 
16. Cantaloupe Hales Best Jumbo ≈ 20 seeds 
17. Winter Squash Jumbo Pink Banana ≈ 10 seeds 
18. Kale Vates Blue Scotch ≈ 280 seeds 
19. Lima Henderson ≈ 15 seeds 
20. Swiss Chard Giant Fordhook ≈ 90 seeds 
21. Cucumber Marketmore ≈ 40 seeds 
22. Spinach Noble Giant ≈ 130 seeds 
23. Carrot Scarlet Nantes ≈ 1750 seeds 
24. Turnip Purple Top ≈ 430 seeds 
25. Pumpkin Sugar Pie ≈ 15 seeds 
26. Cauliflower Snowball Y ≈ 280 seeds 
27. Pea Sugar Daddy ≈ 25 seeds 
28. Broccoli Waltham ≈ 330 seeds 
29. Winter Squash Waltham Butternut ≈ 25 seeds 
30. Sunflower Mammoth ≈ 20 seeds 
31. Parsnips Harris Model ≈ 250 seeds
32. Celery Tall Utah Improved ≈ 3000 seeds
(Plus 14-Page Growing and Seed Saving Guide)


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