Posts Tagged ‘british’

Lee Valley Sale, or Why I Bought a $72 Watering Can

Lee Valley is running free shipping sale through this weekend. Good thing too — our nasty neighbor has decided that we cannot use the hose on the roof anymore, so we ordered another large Haws’ watering can. Without access to the hose, we’ve been making double and triple trips down to our apartment to fill [...]

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A London Rooftop Vegetable Garden

Check out Dom’s rooftop garden in Hackney, London. This is his first year in this building, so he call this vegetable garden “a big experiment.” Dom’s tomatoes are growing in grow bags — “really just bags full of peat/compost/growing soil that are specially designed for vegetables and fruit,” he explained. “They’re great for vegetables in [...]

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A Haws Watering Can for R*’s Birthday

We lug the water for our roof garden up from our second floor apartment to the fifth floor roof. So we’ve been hunting for a watering can that was balanced, sturdy, and … yeah we wanted something beautiful too. When we couldn’t find a galvanized metal watering can at any of the local hardware stores, [...]

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