gardening
Random Stuff
This Is How Kiwis Trim The Top Of Their Hedges
8:40AM Sean Fallon | New Zealanders do it with a crane people… with a crane. It makes perfect sense now. More »
Design
FlowerEYE Pot Examines The Lightning Bolts Under The Soil
4:00AM Mark Wilson | The FlowerEYE pot tracks soil humidity, light levels and ambient temperature, all while displaying a plant’s root system like an episode of Storm Stories. If only this ultimate flowerpot technology actually existed, our perennials would rise again. [HomeTone via Unplggd]
Vehicles
Husqvarna Panthera Leo Mower Is Electric-Powered, LCD-Equipped
4:30PM Adrian Covert | Growing up, I hated mowing the lawn. My backyard was huge, my allergies were bad and I was stuck with a temperamental push mower. If I had this battery-powered Husqvarna mower, however, I would have begged to do yard work. More »
Weapons
Lawn Mower Saves Man’s Life From Misplaced Hand Grenade
12:30PM Wilson Rothman | A 39-year-old man who was mowing the lawn ran over a hand grenade, which proceeded to blow up. The man was not injured, however, because his trusty mower took the brunt of the explosion. More »
Design
Garden Hose Pistol: Water Your Plants With Extreme Prejudice
2:00AM Sean Fallon | I have to believe that some company, somewhere has developed a squirt gun that could be mounted on a garden hose—but I doubt it looked as cool as this concept version. More »
Gadgets
EasyBloom Makes Gardening Plug-and-Play Compatible
6:30AM Mark Wilson | The EasyBloom is a sort of hybrid between a USB stick and a flower. You put the EasyBloom in the ground wherever you’d like to track light, temperature, humidity and soil moisture patterns over 24 hours. Once said time has passed, you pull the EasyBloom from the ground, wipe it off (our tip, not theirs) and stick it in your computer. More »
Random Stuff
Zombie Garden Sculpture Keeps Those Damn Kids Off Your Lawn, Might Eat Their Brains
8:00AM Jack Loftus | Design Toscano wants you to “expect the extraordinary from your home and garden,” and that includes the walking dead. Take this 5.9kg resin undead garden zombie, for example. Designed by British artist Alan Dickinson, it’s a life-sized resin sculpture that would be a terrifying addition to any lawn, garden or personal graveyard. More »
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