Greenhouse Gardening Essentials – Our Top 5 Picks
As the weather warms up again and we head into our gardens and greenhouses…
Here are 5 essential products that we recommend for gardeners of all experience-levels at this time of year.
With winter now in our rear view mirror, it’s time to get back out into our gardens and greenhouses for the spring season.
We created this blog to help provide you with some ideas for essential products and tools that we sell in-store (and online) that will come in handy for all of your greenhouse gardening projects and more.
A consistent top seller in our shop, Garland Trays are an essential purchase for all gardeners and have a variety of uses.
Garland Garden Trays are most commonly used for holding pots and grow bags, as well as being used as mixing trays on commercial Danish Plant Trolley systems. Garland Garden Trays are also often used for the cultivation of microgreens.
Other uses for Garland Trays are to catch overspill when hand watering or using drip irrigation. They can also be filled with water and used for bottom-feeding multiple pots.
Garland Garden Trays are available in a variety of sizes
Garland Garden Trays
Autopot’s Tray2Grow is a highly versatile fully-automated yet power-free grow system.
This functional small-scale irrigation system gives you five different ways to water your plants!
Tray2Grow can accommodate seed trays, small pots, grow bags, micro greens, and planters… it makes the Tray2Grow one of the most versatile home irrigation systems on the market.
Equipped for every eventuality, Tray2Grow includes optional capillary spikes that can be fitted and used to pierce the underside of a grow bag so you can irrigate your substrate.
Autopot Tray2Grow
There are also three guide holes on each side of the Tray2Grow for garden canes if you are trellising plants, plus three inset spirit levels to help make sure its 100% horizontal.
The AssistCut secateurs from Gardena are the perfect garden maintenance tool for horticulturalists of all experience levels to cut branches, young shoots and flowers, and they have a cutting diameter of up to 25 mm.
These Gardena secateurs are hard-wearing and very well-made, they come with an intelligent sensor that helps with cutting thicker branches, as it can tell when there is more resistance… giving you up to 5 times extra power!
We can’t recommend the AssistCut secateurs enough, their clever ergonomic design makes it easy to complete gardening tasks effortlessly while reducing hand strain.
Gardena AssistCut Secateurs
Another highly recommended product for you as we are about to enter the summer months and get back into our gardens and greenhouses. This time once again from Gardena… take a look at this Wall-Mounted Hose Box RollUp, the perfect storage hose solution for both large and small gardens, and compatible with all leading brands of hoses.
Reliable and functional, with a nice and slow rewinding speed. Best used on a flat wall, comes with all the necessary fittings in the box… Box contains 1x Wall-Bracket incl. Screws, 1x 1.5m Connection Hose, 3x Tap Connector, 1x Hose Connector, 1x Water Stop, 1x Cleaning Nozzle.
Note: Hose not included!
Here’s a product that has been flying out of the shop recently… the Air-Pot is a recyclable reusable plastic container that actively enhances the root system of plants.
The Air-Pot is suitable for use with most types of growing media and is used in passive or hydroponic systems. Whether you choose to grow in soil or hydro, Air-Pots allow your plants to develop a remarkable radial root system.
The Air-Pot comes as a flat packed kit that assembles in seconds. After harvest the Air-Pot is quickly removed from the root complex and can be stored flat until next time it is needed. The Air-Pot is made from extra tough 100% re-cycled HDPE plastic and can be used time and time again.
We have 7 sizes of Air-Pots available.
Air Pots
We hope these suggestions will help to inspire you to get back into your greenhouses as the weather warms up.
Have we missed anything truly essential? Feel free to let us know on our social media channels! 😊
Also, just incase you haven’t seen it yet we have just added a Greenhouse Accessories section to our website.
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