His wife said, “Invent something,” and he did
Dennis Frommeyer was annoyed.
When he trimmed the bushes in his yard, the clippings had to be raked up — or picked up by hand if they fell into the landscaping material around his plants.
He vented to his wife, Michelle, and “she told me to invent something,” Frommeyer wrote in an e-mail.
Out of that remark came the Pruning Partner, a timely invention that may be useful to lots of us as winter turns into spring and the 2009 growing season begins in Kentucky.
Pruning Partner is six triangles of canvas with plastic backing. The triangles can be connected to form a circle, a line or an L-shape on the ground around or beside bushes or hedges to catch the trimmings as they fall.
When the job is done, the canvas is rolled up with the trimmings inside so they can be dumped in a recycling bin or a compost heap.
“It works real well; I used it all last year,” says Frommeyer, who has been with the Scott County Fire Department for nearly 20 years.
Pruning Partner comes in medium and large sizes, as you can see at www.pruningpartner.com.
A patent is pending on his invention, which has been on the market for only about a month, Frommeyer says. The real unveiling will be at upcoming garden shows in Louisville and Lexington.
It’s one of those things that looks so simple, you may find yourself asking, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
