You work hard to give your fish a clean and healthy pond environment. So install a pond heater deicer to make sure they don’t freeze in the winter. I review heaters that warm up much of the water in your pond as well as deicers that heat just a localised area of your pond’s water and thaw out a small area of surface ice. Knowing which type you need is what really matters. I list…
If you are tired of heading outside every day to check on your plants and water them or you are simply are not always around to do it, one solution is to install an automatic watering system in your garden. You can use multiple methods to install a simple system that either drips water regularly or alternatively uses a spray system to water a large area, for example, a lawn or a large flowerbed. You…
Continual cold drinks in summer, cocktails with just the right size of ice shards and slushies or snow cones, which my kids simply can’t get enough of. These all can be yours easily with an ice crusher/shaver. I review both electric and manual models, giving each’s pros, cons and features before my top recommendations. My Buyer’s Guide unpacks the confusion that leads to the difficulty of purchasing just the right ice crusher model for you.…
I recently talked about how I choose a pond filter, but the easiest way to keep your garden pond clean and healthy with the least work is with an all-in-one pond pump and filter system and combine this with the best pond skimmers which I recently tested here. As most of these units also have a UV light to do the job of a Pond UV Clarifier as well, that’s three water cleaning systems within…
I have used many propagators over the years, from the standard tray propagators with no heat to the more professional large heated propagators from Hotbox. This was an amazing propagator but at over £500, it isn’t really what most home gardeners are going to be looking for. In this review, I have focused on the smaller, domestic use propagators. These propagators can be unheated or heated (also known as electric propagators) but models some take…
