Your best gardening investment?

[Augustmomx2]

What has been your best gardening investment?

This year, it was a nice pair of clearanced, yellow gardening gloves with the sticky stuff on the outside, to help pull weeds

Next year, I have a feeling it will be gettting my soil tested

 

[noobiechickenlady]

150' of soaker hoses, in 25' lengths.
Next year, a broadfork & raised beds!

 

[patandchickens]

Best recent investment (last year): having the big old poplars we had taken down, chipped and dumped in a giant pile by the driveway. I am about halfway through it now, but that's still a LOTTA mulch (and by mulch I mean also 'soil amendment')

Also I finally broke down and bought a hoe at a farm auction this year, for $2, and would say I've gotten at least $2 worth of use from it so far

Pat

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

chickens!! for bug control...

and also i have 'gauntlet' style leather rose gloves that i use for everything!

 

[Catalina]

The book Squarefoot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew.
Lumber for raised beds.
Gardening gloves - I go through about 3 pairs a month.

 

[SewingDiva]

Rain Barrels! Our water rates are really high.

 

[sparkles2307]

A hubby. He weeds.

 

[seedcorn]

Not even a CLOSE second, a tiller-a clear cut winner.

 

[aquarose]

Lumber for raised beds and a chipper shredder for oak leaves.

 

[obsessed]

The bunnies. I love to eat them but they are way more valuable to me as constant compost and soil fertilizer. When I feel that the plants get too much fertilizer from fresh poop, I add it to the compost and it really heats it up. I also bought 6 yards of nursery soil.