GARDEN & YARD ITEMS

Calling all gardeners! You can never have enough eco-friendly garden twine, so here’s a nice 400-foot roll of it. From RapiClip® this Jute Garden Twine is in a garden-friendly dark green, which means it sort of disappears visually. The best news is, since it’s made of jute, one day it actually does disappear.

Looks like a cheap kid-sized tennis racket, but brother, this ain't for the kids. It's actually a fine way for adults to work on their upper-body strength and kill bugs at the same time. 18" long, with a 6" wide paddle lined with metal grid. A coil in the handle sends high voltage through the paddle when a button is pushed, hit a bug with it and the bug will bug you no more. We've seen these in other catalogs for about twice the price, so buy it from us.  2 AA batteries, not included.

The plants aren’t going to name themselves. These Tall “T” Labels from RapiClip® are for your garden, so you don’t forget what you planted, or what you named the plants. Labels are white, generally T-shaped and 8” tall with a 2-1/2” x 1-3/4” labeling area that looks like a basketball backboard. You’ll get a pack of (10), and when you see how organized your garden is, you’ll probably want another (10).

Why, you’re using this 164 feet of light-duty, green garden wire by RapiClip® to keep your garden neat and tidy, that’s why. Wire is 3/64” dia, meaning it’s super thin and bendy and wrappable. Time to get your plants in order. This stuff will help.

Our friends at iZoom® call this the Lanai Solar Landscape Light, and we say that’s probably a better word than Porch. Either way, use a bunch of these to light your little slice of paradise. They’re light-sensor activated, dusk to dawn, with a warm white LED light, a built-in rechargeable battery, solar panel and on/off switch. In the shape of a lint roller, each light housing measures 4-1/2” tall x approx 2-1/2” dia with of a 7” shaft below it, and a 4-1/4” spike attachment below that. All you do is push it into the ground. Light housing and shaft are black plastic, and the housing has a cool tropical cut-out design for the light to shine through. Weather-proof and IP54 Rated. No need for wires or outlets.

Winter is near so protect your air conditioner or patio furniture against the elements with this heavy duty, reinforced, grey plastic cover. Measures 34" x 34" x 30" and is square square. Includes a 72" elastic strap with a clasp to keep pesky winds from blowing it off and into the neighbors yard. 

Get one before the flood-a 10" tall clear plastic rain gauge to hang on a wall (with 1/4" mounting holes, you supply the screws) or stick in the lawn on its stake-like bottom. Graduated up to 5" of rain in 0.1" increments, or 123mm in 2mm increments.

Why wire? Good question. The answer, when speaking of this particular wire, is that it’s soft, green, rubber-coated and reusable. You’ll get 32 feet of this RapiClip® light duty wire tie from Luster Leaf®, which of course you can use to prop up a tomato plant but also to keep an extension cord from turning into the knotty mess. Bend and twist it any way you like, and then store it on the handy, hangable piece it comes wrapped around.

The budding home scientist and horticulturist will both delight in the ease with which this self-contained soil test kit brings discovery. The kit measures not only ph., but also Nitrogen, Phosphate and Potash content and contains material for 40 tests. Since these are the essential ingredients affecting plant nutrition, we see a science project in the making: experimental plant growth in soils with different amounts of acidity and/or nutrients. From Luster Leaf(tm), the kit is entirely self-contained and includes complete instructions for use and explanations. Be careful, please, the kit does have chemicals and should not be used by young children without supervision.

No one can stop the rain, and CCR should have known that. But you can measure it with this Rapitest® Rain Gauge. Has a weatherproof metal stake and protective holder which holds (as holders do) a cylindrical gauge. Max reading is 5” or 130 mm. Stake length is adjustable between 10-1/4” to 30-3/4”. You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but you do need a rain gauge to know how much rain fell. You’re welcome.

Grow a beautiful garden full of plants that love your soil! It's easy if you know your soil's pH, and we have a gauge to help you! Stick the probe into moist soil for the pH to register in a separate 4" x 2" x 1" gauge box on the end of a 26 inch cord. That lets you read the gauge without having to lay on the bug and worm covered ground to see it! A needle indicates the pH on a scale of 3.5-9, and you get a list of which plants like which pH levels.

Is your garden not colorful enough? Beat the monochromatic garden lighting blues with these 5” dia x 1” thick rounded discs with LEDs that will morph through (7) colors and make your yard a garden of visual delights. Our each is a (2)-pack of discs with a solar panel in the center that powers a rechargeable battery that lights the LEDs. Includes mounting stakes, manual on/off, and auto on/off that works via a light sensor. Weather-resistant because how dumb would it be if they weren't?

This is such a nice little set of (3) galvanized metal pots with a matching tray that we’re sure it’ll galvanize some Surpies into growing plants. A pair of the pots measure 4-1/4" tall with a 4" square x 7/8" lip and a 3" square body tapering down to a 2-1/4" square base; and (1) pot measures 4-1/2" tall with a 4" square x 7/8" lip and a 3" square bodying tapering down to a 2-1/4" square base. The pots don’t have drain holes, and the tray measures 11-3/4" x 3-3/8" x 7/8". If you don’t have a green thumb, use this set for some other craft application. You’ll think of something clever. You always do.

You don’t have to be a hoser, or even Canadian, to appreciate this 25-foot expanding coil garden hose with a (7)-function nozzle: mist, jet, shower, flat, center, cone and full. The hose, made by Savannah®, is covered in a durable polyester that’s red and rather frilly, making it one of the fancier looking garden hoses we’ve seen. If you wanted to water the lawn outside the Oscars, this is the one—and it fits in a 5” x 8” box!

The Woof & Paw Rake and Bin Pooper Scooper set is so nice, so sturdy, it might make you want to get a dog just so you can clean up after it. Extending handles click into place on the rake and bin, extending from 20" long closed to 3 feet fully extended. Bin is 6-1/4" wide x 6-3/4" deep with 3 walls 2-1/2" high. Rake has 9 metal tines spread across 6-1/4". Scooping poop will never be as enjoyable as it is with these tools.

Around here, folks play tennis indoors in the winter. It’s not our game, but we assume netters get all jazzed when they can finally hit outside again. Good weather brings bugs, which is why we love this classic 19” long DELUXE tennis racket bug zapper. It’s rechargeable (USB to Micro USB charger included) with triple grid designs in the electrified webbing, which measures approx 7-1/2" x 8-1/2". Bonus! Also has an LED light to show you what you’re about to zap with a backhand ground stroke or an overhead smash.

A unique twofer, this combination camping lantern and bug zapper is powered by an internal lithium battery. Has a shielded micro-USB charge port and a 23” charging cord. Main LED light has low, medium and high modes in a 1-3/8” dia frosted lens inside a 3” dia silicone gasket for rainproofiness. Bug zapper grid is 600V with a UV LED, and the combo can stand free or hang from a folding hook. Rated for 2-6 or 4-20 hours depending on mode. The whole shebang measures 4-3/4" x 3-3/8".

Jarvis Says: There are two different styles. Bulb style and cylinder. Both performe equally awesome. If you have a preference please email us after your order. 

In a pinch you could eat with this brass-plated Garden Fork and Trowel set from Kikkerland®, but then what would you use to plant your rhubarb and geraniums with, your hands? You’re not uncivilized! Fork has (4) straight prongs and trowel is in the classic trowel shape. Both measure approx 10-1/2” long x 3” at the widest, and have big grabbable handles. Like Superman, who probably eats with his hands, they’re made of steel.