When it’s time to care for the spring blooms, you must have the right gear. But before you pull on those gardening gloves, think about the needs. The most beneficial gardening tools focus on what you’ll be doing. If you’re excited to get your spring garden or landscape up and running, ensure that you have the tools to get the job done correctly and efficiently.
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Clearing Garden Tools
These versatile garden tools are for trimming stems and shoots, sawing branches, cutting vines, and severing roots. If you own an overgrown garden or one with coarse ornamental grasses that should be cut back, try an 18 or 13-inch billhook saw. Both of them feature a coarse saw edge for getting rid of tough grasses and branches and a rust-resistant rounded blade for fast pull cuts.
Digging Shovel
A rounded, sharp, blade digging shovel is necessary if you’re planting anything more extensive than the fist. Shovels have grown ergonomically, and this is a good example. The D-shaped handle provides two-handed control tossing heavy loads of soil and when digging up. The welded steel construction is long-lasting than the wood one and won’t flex under a huge load as fiberglass would. In contrast, the large step plate is broad enough to relieve pressure on the foot when stepping on it repeatedly.
Edging Spade
A flat-blade edging spade is a beneficial friend to have around the garden. This will cut roots, slice turf neatly, edge a garden, or mulch off a flat surface like a sidewalk or truck bed. You can use this garden tool for usual planting or when you’re getting in the bare-root plants (putting those in the ground provisionally until you decide a permanent location). Like the digging shovel, this D-handle design grants better handling. The rubber foot pad can reduce shoe damage and fatigue and fit either side of the shovel with the pre-drilled openings.
Loppers
When you need to cut the branches the size of a finger or bigger than that, bring the loppers, offering larger blades than leverage and pruners. These loppers will easily cut all the branches with a diameter of about 1-1/2 inches. The gear technology increases the force to give you up to four times more cutting power than regular loppers.
Pruners
Pruners have been the go-to garden tool whenever you’re cutting small woody twigs or pliable stems or deadheading flowers. Bypass pruners are a great general-purpose garden tool for trimming branches and stems to about half an inch. Ratchet pruners multiply the ratchet action to cut up to 3/4-inch stems. Any bigger, and you risk breaking the pruners.
Pruning Saw
Pruning saws are a great all-purpose saw for your garden. Many fold up for storage and safe transport. All are adept at working in tight spaces than the more cumbersome and more open bow saws. The razor-tooth blade quickly cuts through woody stems the size of the arm. You’ll require something bigger, such as a cordless chain saw, for chopping down trees and large projects.
Hori Hori Digging Tool
This multipurpose garden tool is more than a tool; it is also a saw, knife, and measuring device for planting bulbs. Use it for weeding, planting, dividing perennials, cutting sod, and severing roots. It also comes with a holster to guard the stainless steel blade.
Garden Rake
A garden rake typically gets its workout in the spring when prepping and cultivating the vegetable garden soil. But it is great at other tasks, such as scratching hard-packed soil, leveling mulch to make that extra porous, or surfacing soil before seeding the lawn. You can also use that to remove moss or thatch from the lawn.
Leaf Rake
While its chief purpose is collecting leaves, a leaf rake is handy for collecting garden debris (such as grass clippings that accumulate when it’s too long). Long-lasting steel-tine rakes are great for small yards or when you need to scratch the soil surface when raking. If you deal with a large yard, a poly leaf rake surrounds more territory in less time. The poly garden tools rake has a 24-inch clog-free head that will not spear leaves.
Hose and Sprayer
There’s nothing more convenient than a watering hose. Hoses and garden tools come in various lengths, materials (rubber, vinyl), and colors (traditionally black or green, now a rainbow of options). The heavy-duty rubber hose can hold up for years, particularly if you store it under shelter in cold climates. Although you can rely on the thumb, the spray attachment provides more options (such as a soft stream of water for watering newly seeded areas or cleaning mud off the tools).
Conclusion
Gardening is an excellent occupation and hobby. The better you learn about gardening, the more you will desire to purchase the gardening department or local plant store tools. Before you go out and get every tool you come across, begin with the basics. As you gain more exposure to gardening, you can conclude which gardening tools you require and which are just luxuries.
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