If you’ve hung out at North Coast Gardening for a while, you know I have some, ahem, opinions about gardening tools. Felcos? Forget it!
But sometimes my favorite tools are a bit harder to find – they aren’t all on Amazon, nor are many of them at your local garden shop. So I’m really excited to be partnering with OpenSky, a company which is helping me run my own store so that you’ll be able to find all the best tools in one place.
So far I only have a few products for sale in my new store, but I’m working every day to get the rest of my favorites in there so you’ll have a good source for your own tools and gifts for your gardening friends.
For me, the difference between using a sharp, well-made tool and using some crap old thing that’s been hanging out in the garden shed since the 70’s is immense – gardening’s such a joy if your tools make it easy to prune and dig, but for me – a lousy tool can really ruin the magic.
Go ahead, check out my new store, and if you have any tips on products you think I should carry or want to tell me about your experiences with the tools I recommend, drop me a line here!
After graduating high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer someday, but I also knew that at 17, I didn’t know much of anything that anyone else might care about, so in college, I followed my other passion – gardening! A few years of maintaining other designers’ mistakes convinced me that I could do better (seriously, guys – who puts prickly Barberries next to a hose bib?!!), so I branched out from doing a careful and loving job maintaining plants, to design, which I adore. To a plant geek, what could be more heavenly than getting paid to sit and think about plants all day long?
Just a few years ago, I learned about a new way of helping folks in the garden – Garden Coaching! Now that I have seen over and over again the mistakes new gardeners make, the questions gardeners new and experienced alike seem to struggle with, and the few tweaks that really make a garden pop, I figured what better way to connect with my fellow friends-in-the-dirt than a blog?
I am looking forward to providing solid information that will be useful to those gardening on the coast in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and similar climates around the world. Let me know if there are any topics you’d like me to cover – click the contact page above – and if you enjoy gardening, I’d love to connect with you on Facebook or Twitter!
