Cool Green Landscaping Products we like!

We transplanted our trees that was the easy part, the hard part is taking care of them. They needed extra soil to fill in around the hole as well as large stakes and wire to hold them in place plus mulch, it was a great workout moving about 6 cubic yards of material by hand. Watering is an even bigger challenge. We are 2.5 hours away and can't go over everyday to water them. I tried rigging a system with 5 gallon buckets with small holes that will drain collected water slowly but it doesn't really work. It doesn't collect as much water as I'd like and sometimes gets blown away in the wind even with large stones in them. When we are there we have a Well so water is not really an issue but getting it out of the well requires electricity and our small solar panel array is not nearly powerful enough to power the well pump so we have to fire up the generator. Needless to say after watering the trees we don't feel very "Green". We are looking at a few products that will help us with our watering and landscaping needs.

We found a bunch of great stuff for the home and garden over at Composters.com like Rain Barrels, Compost Bins and Compost Tumblers. We bought some stuff from them already and here are some others we'll probably get soon.

TreeGator Irrigation System - We just ordered and can't wait to get them hooked up, they can hold up to 50 gallons that would be released over a time period of 20 hours.

Octagonal Stacking Rain Catchment System is super sweet and cool looking I can't wait to get a house up so I can buy and install these. They stack and actually look pretty modern.

WaterRing once we do the next planting of small trees the WaterRing would be a really good option for for them just ill them and forget about it until the next time we are up. Typically, the WaterRing needs to be filled just every other week for a tree to thrive.

Comments

[Garden makeovers]

I am determined to make my garden eco friendly and encourage sustainable development…but I’m struggling to even get borders created as I lack additional funds and the physical strength to complete it all. I would most love for my three boys to grow their own fruit and vegetables as I did when I was young. If you ever consider the small garden makeover for a family, then I would be extremely grateful for any help you can provide.

[Lawns Sod Services]

I am not so much of technology person I don't have all the cool gadgets that are available out there, but I love how these gardening and landscaping tools are invented it makes things easier and because of these things I've fallen even more inlove with gardening..:-)

[SFI Program]

Fascinating post! Since you're interested in green building, you should take a look at this petition demanding changes to the LEED green building standard: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/leed/

[boom trucks]

oh wow, i have never even heard of a water ring. very creative and innovative.

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[Lea]

Gardening comes more easy now for we can use different systems and technologies to help us make our work lighter. I'd like to have these systems in my own garden.

[Landscape Contractor in FL]

Hello to the 3 of you. Those gadgets are really cool and I can make use of them in my landscaping business (I'm from Florida). I was doing some search for the latest trends and I got to your site. Thanks for sharing and more power.