This is a great tip! I'm forever heading out the door and within 5 minutes I have to turn around and go back to the garage to find my gloves and pruners. There's always something that needs pinching or pruning! I moved about 8 months ago and at the old house I always had a basket with tools, gloves, plant ties etc. sitting on the deck for those chores ... don't know why I haven't thought of it since moving ... Thanks so much for the reminder!

My hand pruners and garden scissors are kept rolled in a oiled cloth in a basket hanging outside my back door. Gloves are strategically (? ) placed in many convenient places. Occasionally, they'll even make it back into the basket as well.

Great tip, Angie!

"Keep a pair of gardening gloves and pruners near the back door of your house, so you can easily grab them when you are "only stepping outside for a minute." You KNOW you can't go out into the garden for even a minute without seeing something that needs weeded or pruned! "

Isn't that the truth!!!

I'm forever stepping out to let the dog out, and then half an hour later, lifting my head out of my flowers, looking around and thinking, "Hmmm, I wonder where the dog went?"

Dog, what dog? Did I bring the dog out? Yeah, me too.