Essential Tools that Every Gardener Needs

essential tools

So what gardening tools do you really need and which ones are just nice to have? That depends on who you ask! But usually these items are gardening tools that gardeners agree no gardener can be without.

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Shovel

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Seems like common knowledge, doesn’t it, that a gardener needs a shovel? But many people overlook this very common and yet very necessary gardening tool. There two different varieties of shovels used for gardening, a flat head shovel and a spade. A flat head shovel is designed to move soil and has a flat, shallow end on it. A spade, which is more often associated with gardening, has a concave pa

Pruning Shears

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Pruning shears are something that every gardener must have. Pruning shears are double edged straight shears where the blades line up with the handles. Pruning shears are used to trim cuttings, cut flowers, cut dead leaves from plants, trim hedges, and virtually every other task for which you need to cut something in the garden. Pruning shears give a more precise cut than scissors and are designed to cut

Garden Hose

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Having a good garden hose is essential for gardening. You will be spending a lot of time watering your plants and keeping them watered throughout the gardening season. You may think one hose is as good as another but that’s not true. Hoses, like other gardening implements, come in lots of different price ranges and qualities. Have you ever tried to unkink a cheap garden hose? Or wind a cheap hose back

Rake

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; A good rake is another gardening must-have. You will use your rake a lot when you are preparing the soil for planting and also to help keep the garden tidy and rake up leaves and clippings and weeds. Cheap rakes are very inexpensive but you get what you pay for. Rakes with wood or plastic tines will break easily and need to be replaced fairly often. Do yourself a favor and invest in a high quality rake with

Trowel

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Trowel, one important tool in gardening. Starting a garden is no easy task. You do not only think about the soil and the plants, you also have to get the right tools to use when gardening. Choosing the right tools for your garden is also a hard task. One very important tool that you must have is this one. This is a hand tool used for digging and smoothing or moving around small amounts of soil. Its a tool which

Wheelbarrow

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Even if you have a very small garden you will find that you have a lot of things that need to be moved around in your garden. Bags of mulch and fertilizer, plants, composting material, wood chips, plant food, pulled weeds and clippings, and, of course, your gardening tools. Moving all of that stuff around can be heavy and tedious, so invest in a good quality wheelbarrow to help you move the heavy stuff arou

Loppers

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Even if you have a very small garden you will find that you have a lot of things that need to be moved around in your garden. Bags of mulch and fertilizer, plants, composting material, wood chips, plant food, pulled weeds and clippings, and, of course, your gardening tools. Moving all of that stuff around can be heavy and tedious, so invest in a good quality wheelbarrow to help you move the heavy stuff arou

Broom

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Broom, an old-fashioned one are preferred by other people done using a a leaf blower to clean up garden waste, weeds, clippings, and other things that make the garden look messy. Cleaning up with this is definitely more exercise than using a leaf blower so if you want to garden for the exercise you should use this to clean up. Leaf blowers are generally frowned on by gardening enthusiasts because they are

Lawnmower

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Size of the lawn to be mowed There are hand-held mowers which are quite small and are convenient for mowing small areas and there are bigger ride on mowers that could cover larger areas. You have to get a mower that is right for the size of your lawn. Do not cut back on the budget by getting a smaller machine if you have a big lawn, otherwise you would be spending more than time to finish that same lawn comp

Sprinkler

medianet_width='300'; medianet_height= '250'; medianet_crid='138964988'; Sprinkler is a necessity on gardens, because it will definitely reduce your time and task consumed in maintaining a garden at your home. Having a garden is no easy task. When you have already created your dream garden, the work does not stop there. You still have to maintain your garden to allow it to thrive and prosper. There are many things needed in order to maintain a garden in its top condition. The most