Gardening gloves with hard tip inners for digging in soil with rocks, clay, etc. It always seems that even with canvas gloves they wear through, or your wife complains about breaking newly refinished nails.

Ever been out in the extreme cold, or heat for that matter, mowing the grass, or picking leaves, well, there is a good solution now. Simply install an already manufactured system that allows you to drive your mower from the comfort of your home. Or get a machine with the system built into it. Simply use a remote; with various functions to drive the machine. And how about this, installing your christmas tree is always a pain in you know where; cuz if you don't, well. Anyway, why not get...

There are many references in various electronic journals, design, or D-I-Y magazines to devices, which deliver water to plants based on monitoring the dryness of the surrounding soil. All of them are electronic circuits, which require power for monitoring and power for the valve that delivers the water. The power has to be low voltage and available at the plant being watered. The idea proposed now is to develop a non-electrical direct acting automatic irrigator, which can be...

Have you ever just put your washing out and then it starts to rain? When you are going off to work the sky looks good but you never know? Washing line throws for rotary washing lines... Simply made of plastic with a hole in the middle and strategic eyelets to secure it. Takes a second to put on but saves all that unecessary taking in the washing for a short rain shower and give those who go to work peace of mind their washing will be dry on their return.

Genetically develop a plant of which every part has a use. Say roots make potatoes, leaves are spinach, flowers are a show and seeds are to eat so were the fruits.

What would one think of this? A sprinkler type head that pops out of the lawn and clips the grass off at a certain height. Make sure someone is not on the -grass- before throwing the switch, okay-right. Each head would cover a radius and by a flick of a switch the job would be done.

This device would not only cut with precision but clamp down on the part of the stem or small branch to be discarded...and when the handle is released, the clamp would release the branch...falling into any trash barrel or bin. The clamping mechanism would operate adjacent to and parallel with the cutter...both functions accomplished by the manual compression of one handle. Advantage...saves either stooping to pick up discarded branches...or eliminates the use of one's other hand to...

Decorator rain barrels would be useful and more aesthetically pleasing in my yard. My idea is to have 10-30 gallon rain barrels in the shapes of urns (various styles). The rain barrel would of course have a 15-20' hose attached with an on/off valve for distributing the water. People could set these decorative barrels in any location in their yards & they'd both look good and be functional.

WHILE I WAS CUTTING GRASS I THOUGHT THAT SINCE YOU HAVE TO COVER EVERY INCH OF LAWN, THERE SHOULD BE A GALLON TANK ON FRONT OR SIDE OF MOWER WITH A PUMP RUNNING OFF OF THE SHAFT TO SPRAY WHATEVER. YOU COULD SPRAY FERTILIZER, BUG SPRAY, OR EVEN JUST WATER, WHILE YOU'RE MOWING THE LAWN.

They've already discovered maintenance-free grass (requiring no mowing). Now, how about botanists developing a tree whose growth can be controlled to a certain height, and which either has evergreen leaves, or else leaves that aren't a pain to rake. I think the honey-locust may have more manageable leaves, but can it grow in cool climates, too? In hot weather it's energy-efficient to have shade trees cooling the house, but they're such a PAIN to maintain. If only there were a solution!