(HIT) - Gardeners and homeowners are always looking for the newest and the coolest products, and this year offers a bumper crop. These three new products all won 2011 Green Thumb Awards from the Direct Gardening Association as the best new products of the year.
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The new Timelapse ProjectCam from Wingscapes offers the ultimate way to showcase projects from beginning to completion. The innovative, high-resolution digital camera takes photos at set time intervals then automatically converts them into timelapse videos that can be shared on YouTube and Facebook. It’s the perfect way to watch your remodeling project or your garden grow in fast forward on your computer. Timelapse ProjectCam is rugged and weatherproof, so it can be left unattended outdoors without worry. Set-up is easy and requires no tools. Timelapse ProjectCam sells for $89.99 from www.naturehills.com.
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The MiniGarden is an innovative modular growing container made in Portugal that brings a vegetable plot, herb garden, flower garden or decorative living wall virtually anywhere. Perfect for urban dwellers and suburbanites alike, MiniGardens unique system of modules creates a self-contained vertical structure. Each MiniGarden kit includes three modules, which each have three planting pockets. So each MiniGarden can hold a total of nine plants. Included in the MiniGarden kit are container lids, a water-collecting tray (which is placed on the bottom) and clips used to connect the growing modules. Each module can be stacked and/or connected to additional modules. The MiniGarden sells for about $60 from www.earthbox.com and www.naturehills.com.
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Thatch Control from Natural Industries
Thatch Control offers a safe, biological way to break down harmful thatch and increase the health and vigor of lawns. Thatch is the layer between the green, actively growing part of lawn grass and the soil. This tightly woven layer of thatch acts like a sponge that keeps water and nutrients from reaching roots. A little thatch can improve the heat tolerance of a lawn, but too much thatch makes a lawn susceptible to drought and heat damage, insect pests and lawn diseases. The active ingredient in Thatch Control is a patented microorganism called Streptomyces violaceusniger strain YCED 9. When applied to lawns in a water solution, these microbes will germinate and grow on harmful thatch, using the thatch as a food source and turning it into nutrients that the lawn can use to promote healthy growth. A two-ounce package of Thatch Control (which treats 5,000 square feet of lawn) sells for $11.99 from www.naturehills.com.
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Summit Year-Round Spray Oil, a light weight horticultural oil that effectively controls insect pests on even the most sensitive plants, is now OMRI Listed by the Organic Materials Review Institute. Summit Year-Round Spray Oil is approved for use in certified organic production. Summit Year-Round Spray Oil can be used any time during the year because it won’t harm plant buds, shoots and leaves. This lightweight oil will effectively control pests on even the most sensitive plants, such as roses, impatiens, philodendrons and ferns. Summit Year-Round Spray Oil is an environmentally responsible insecticide that kills a wide variety of insect pests including aphids, whiteflies, spider mites, mealybugs, scale, thrips, fungus gnats, certain caterpillars, leaf beetle larvae, lace bugs and others.
Summit Year-Round Spray Oil concentrate is available in three different sizes, one pint, one quart and one gallon. It is available at garden centers, hardware stores and online at www.naturehills.com.
Nature Can Cure What Ails You
Research suggests that we are genetically hard-wired to tap into Mother Nature’s great outdoors when we need to cure what ails us. Studies show that green surroundings (as in plants and trees, not green-painted interior walls) improve mental alertness. Kids who have greener playgrounds perform better on attention-related tests that kids who play on asphalt. And a 2005 study in Sweden found that more frequent visits to green spaces result in less stress-related sickness. So tell your boss you need to go outside and play!
Qoute of the month
Gardening gives me fun and health and knowledge. It gives me laughter and colour. It gives me pictures of almost incredible beauty.-- John F. Kenyon (1874-1959)
Source: Garden Cuttings Newsletter
Garden Cuttings is published by Schultz Communications, a full-service public relations agency that provides services to home and garden companies including Wingscapes, Natural Industries, Summit, EarthBox, NatureHills.com, High Country Gardens and the Direct Gardening Association,. For more information, contact (505) 822-8222 or schultz@schultzpr.com or visit the website at www.schultzpr.com.Courtesy: Home Improvement News and Information Center
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