New Toy / Best Gadget

[Roy Bham UK]

Uh Uh! spose to work for Herons and other birds but I doubt if it would work for cats, a plastic pop bottle half filled with water may work for a while, (not a pretty site round your garden tho) can't quite remember what it does to scare em. :o

[Roy Bham UK]

[Hugh_Jones]

It`s the low maoning noise made when the wind blows acrpss the tops of the bottles that does it.  But it only works when the wind blows directly across the tops - rather like all these electric-generating windmill farms that are springing up everywhere.

[ajb]

I love my shredder. We have tall bushes bordering our garden. The shredder turns the big pile of branches we have to cut down into fantastic compost fodder / mulch. Really good mixed with grass clippings.

My favourite gadget is an automatic dripper waterer thingy that screws onto pop bottles. Keeps the chillies nice and healthy in the greenhouse.

[ina]

Shug, please tell me more about the 'dripper-waterer-thingy-that-screws-onto-pop-bottles' please. Never heard of it. It sounds just like something I need in the greenhouse at the lottie. Thanks.

[Mrs Ava]

ooo They are good Ina, I have some.  Mine are bright orange plastic tubeey things, pointy with a hole in the bottom.  You fill a plastic drink bottle up with water then screw this little dripper onto the end of the bottle, upturn the bottle and spear the orange end into the ground.  It slowely allows water to trickle out into the pot.  Bad description!  I shall look for a pic.

[Sarah_O]

My friends neighbour has a cat scarer thing but he swears he can hear it when it goes off. I wakes him up more than the cats!

:-\

[derbex]

I made a water dripper thing from an old, plastic, milk carton. Just stab a hole in the bottomand screw the cap on almost tight (or stab another hole in that).

I use it to water the Xmas tree when it's indoors, or on pots that have dries out too much.

Jeremy

[ina]

Irrigation system building for the complete idiot, even I understand it hahaha.
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/garden/dripsystem.php

Found another one and I understand this one too hehe.
http://www.raw-connections.com/garden/maint/bleachbt.htm

[Andy H]

Shredders are noisy but great fun. When you run out of stuff, I seem to be looking around for something else to put in!
Have tried feeding the end of loo roll in and see how fast is whizzes round ;D Newspapers also ;D(Messy)
Last year I thought I would make a slug deterant with about 150 scallop shells I had from diving. WHAT a noise! What a mess! Didn`t know they were so hard :o And a white floury dust EVERYWHERE! :-\

My mate inherited a petrol version which is great gadget for taking to allotment as no elec there. Both are at least 20 years old but don`t know why my elec one has managed to last so long!

[Andy H]

Both those links seems to have open tops! I just put pin hole size drill in lid and put in growbag to bottom of it. My theory was that when bottom of grow bag had no water in it then it dripped out more. in the cooler times it dripped slowly but in mid-day sun it ran out in an hour. And a pain to fill and put back in.

Will await for details on those mentioned by Shug & EJ

[Mrs Ava]

Those little plassy watering tube things, in the latest copy of the Kleeneze catalogue that was shoved through my letter box today!  Looked on their website but not on there, typical!  Couple of quid for 4 I think it was.  Can't find a piccy anywhere on the web of them, and of course, my scanner isn't working to copy a pic...will keep trying!  ;D

[ina]

You may stop now EJ hehehe. My British friend is sending me some! Whoopee.
Thank you for trying, you're dear.