Garden Buddy

My old garden cart has seen better days. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Garden Buddy

This is a pitch to give the gardeners on your gift giving list a garden buddy. Garden buddies are these small rolling containers similar to garbage containers that can easily move items around the garden. Here’s the catch. If you want to give them as holiday gifts, you are going to have to buy them now. They are usually sold out by the end of the year and are not restocked until the next growing season. You would think these would b e available all four seasons but they aren’t.

Why a garden buddy?

This is my old garden buddy, purchased for $20 at a local grocery store. I had to put it together, which wasn’t a big issue, and have used it to carry mulch, compost and plant trimmings around for more than three years.

A small cart on wheels is very helpful to move supplies in a garden. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Last year, I tried to move a rock and took out the plastic bottom.

My old garden cart is now air conditioned with a hole in the bottom. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

I keep cardboard covering that area so I can still use it to move cut plants and mulch around.

Enter this new garden buddy that I found at a local hardware store. It is actually called a “garden buddy;” cost the same amount as my old garden cart and is better built. In other words, this one doesn’t fall over as easily as my old garden cart.

My new garden buddy has a more aerodynamic design. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

It also has a handy little shovel holder along the side. Not that I keep it there, i tend to throw the small shovel on the top of whatever it is I am carrying.

This is an excellent gift idea for gardeners so get them now while you can!

Charlotte