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May 2, 2009

Tool Time: watering globe

This garden helper comes under the heading of pretty and practical.

It is ideal for keeping potted plants watered when you’re away or when you’re just too busy to check on them. It holds 24 ounces of water, enough to keep a large pot hydrated for a week. Simply push the 7.5-inch “smart pottery” ceramic stake into the soil. The ceramic stake slowly releases water into the soil as plants need it.

The hand-blown clear fluted globe has a decorative blue finial that allows you to remove the globe from the stake for easy refilling.

It costs $24.95 and is available from Logee’s Tropical plants, www.logees.com, 1-888-330-8038.

Photo credit: Logees

Posted by Susan Reimer at 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Garden tools

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I saw the same type of device at Wal-Mart.

Posted by: NotableM | May 2, 2009 1:06 PM

Bj's has 'em, too. I think they're 2 for $9.98.

Yeah, but are they really pretty glass?-- Susan

Posted by: Eve | May 4, 2009 10:30 AM

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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