Garden Gadgets: Top 4 Picks

Gardening is a lot of pleasure, but it is also a lot of labor. Sure, there are products that promise to aid, but which ones are truly beneficial and worthwhile? If you've ever wished you knew which garden gadgets are the best and most handy, you're in luck. Here are four of the best garden devices that will genuinely assist you in caring for your garden, as well as where you can find them.

1. Robotic Lawn Mower

What about a lawn-mowing robot? It may sound too good to be real, but it is true. These function similarly to house-cleaning robots, identifying adjacent impediments and navigating around them. They can even be controlled from your smartphone. You may be wondering how this benefits your garden, but if you've ever unintentionally run over your garden with a lawn mower, you've already seen the advantages. Furthermore, having an autonomous lawn mower allows you to devote more time to your yard.

2. Outdoor Smart Lighting

Outdoor smart lights should help to keep the party going past sunset for those get-togethers that last into the evening. Choose from pedestal lights, spot lights, and lighting strips to create the perfect setup for your space, and then manage it all with an app on your phone.

This lets you control when they turn on, set an automated schedule, integrate your lighting into a smart home routine, and select the color. You may even change them by speaking to Alexa or Google Assistant.

3. Smart Bird Box

A smart bird box is one of the most ideal garden gadgets for getting to know your garden's feathered friends for the tech-savvy birdwatcher. Gardenature offers a variety of options, but we really like their IP camera bird boxes, which can send live HD footage from within the bird box to your phone or tablet.

You'll normally need to connect a single wire from the bird box to your router, but if you have outdoor mains electricity nearby - in a shed or outbuilding - the company also sells powerline adapters that can transmit your internet signal through your electrical ring main, saving you from running cables for miles.

4. Smart Irrigation Control

Watering your yard is essential if you want it to look its best. There are two options: standing there for hours with a hose or installing a sprinkler system to do it for you.

With a healthy dose of technology, the Gardena Smart System takes the bother out of watering your lawns and flowerbeds. Depending on how environmentally conscious you want to be, the sprinkler works through a smart gateway that connects to your router through ethernet or Wi-Fi, and then the water control unit, which you attach to your outdoor tap.

Once everything is in place and connected to Wi-Fi, you can control the system with an app on your phone. You can either start the watering manually or configure it to start automatically on a schedule.

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