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Hope this hasn't been suggested yet... didn't read all posts...
What about making a gift basket all wrapped in cellophane and a big bow. Inside you can put the following...
Your Local Dollar Store will most likely have: baskets, maybe a kneeling pad, gardening gloves, maybe even a tool or two... Then you can go to your local nursery or big box home repair store and buy some bulbs for him to plant this fall... and maybe a bulb planting tool that looks like this:
What about making a gift basket all wrapped in cellophane and a big bow. Inside you can put the following...
Your Local Dollar Store will most likely have: baskets, maybe a kneeling pad, gardening gloves, maybe even a tool or two... Then you can go to your local nursery or big box home repair store and buy some bulbs for him to plant this fall... and maybe a bulb planting tool that looks like this:
I love this idea. I will be 76 in Nov. Can someone get these for me ???
What about making a gift basket all wrapped in cellophane and a big bow. Inside you can put the following...
Your Local Dollar Store will most likely have: baskets, maybe a kneeling pad, gardening gloves, maybe even a tool or two... Then you can go to your local nursery or big box home repair store and buy some bulbs for him to plant this fall... and maybe a bulb planting tool that looks like this:
For bulb planting, I prefer this. Attached to the electric drill, it even makes planting in rocky soil pretty easy. I got mine at Lowes, but for some reason, they didn't stock them this year.
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good ideas, especially the towable sitting cart, and 2 wheeled wheelbarrow. There are some nice tall wheeled plastic garden carts too that you 'tow' or push.
BTW, when my granddad got to his 80's he planted the rows far enough apart so he could drive his Air Conditioned car between the rows to aid in his watering pleasure I don't think that would work at today's gas prices He had a pretty big farm and garden to match, so it was funny at the time.
LOL.. yeah, Tek has been a bad influence on me and others... so I'm not sure if it's a good idea to put both of us in the same room or dog house!
lol holy wow.........are ya'll for real......did you seriously crash my post here.....common it's his 75th birthday.......shouldn't you guys be shopping for walkers anyway lol......I kid I kid.......
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yeah, Tek has been a bad influence on me and others... so I'm not sure if it's a good idea to put both of us in the same room or dog house! 
Hope this hasn't been suggested yet... didn't read all posts...
just skip the hassle of shipping...LOL
He had a pretty big farm and garden to match, so it was funny at the time.
