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Growth spurt: Good Weekend’s gardening gift guide
By Frances Mocnik
Some not so garden-variety tools to boost your green-finger cred.
Credit: Frances Mocnik
1. Sophie Conran ultra-soft, machine-washable gardening gloves, $48, from Plant Daddy.
2. Reset Leaf Conditioner with natural, organic ingredients and neem-free formulation to spruce up leaves, one litre, $22, from Plant Daddy.
3. Gardener’s Soap: triple milled and olive-fragranced with exfoliating ground walnut shell, 200g, $20, from Heaven in Earth.
4. Father Rabbit Goods’ set of three herb scissors in carbon steel, $32, from Neighbourhood.
5. 20 Tine Leaf Rake made from stainless steel with a 150cm ash handle, $125, from Garden Life.
6. Diamond watering can in onyx, eight litres, $139, from Garden Glory.
7. iQ black cylinder pot, designed to insulate and protect plants from -40 to 50 degree temperatures, 32cm x 32cm, $45, from Bunnings.
8. Potting tarp in environmentally friendly, biodegradable resin, one square metre, $7, from The Plant Runner.
9. Sophie Conrad kneeler in PVC-coated cotton ticking with twin layers of memory foam around a lightweight EVA foam core, $47, from Plant Daddy.
10. Vegepod small, raised garden bed, with water wicking system and polyurethane-knitted mesh cover to protect crops from UV and pests (plants not included), 0.5m x 1m, $209, and small trolley stand, $199.
11. Husqvarna Automower 305 robotic lawn mover with Bluetooth controls, from $1739.
12. Eat Weeds: A Field Guide to Foraging: How to Identify, Harvest, Eat and Use Wild Plants, by Diego Bonetto, $50, from Booktopia.
13. Aspect sleek LED pendant-style, museum-quality grow light with a 40-watt, highly precise, photosynthetic spectrum globe rated to last 15 years at 16 hours use per day, $240, from The Plant Runner.
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