The most useful gardening gifts
RAKE ASSASSIN
Anyone who has raked anything knows the frustration of raking up debris in a garden bed or gravel path - and then struggling to pick up the rakings while leaving the good soil or gravel behind. Enter the Rake Assassin, a handy tool that doesn't just rake but has strong enough tines to shovel up the debris while leaving the good stuff behind.
MAKING GARDENING SEXY
"The Drunken Botanist" by Amy Stewart makes gardening sexy and, as one reviewer says, even a little dangerous, as with her 2009 treatise "Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities" and 2011 follow-up, "Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects." Her
