Gardening: Never Without My Tools!

Want to garden but you do not know where to start? First step: get the right tools. A visit to the garden you may dive into total confusion. Do not panic! You do not need all the tools that sell. Here’s a short list of essential equipment.

Gardening gloves

There you have several kinds. Buy first light gloves, coated with rubber, useful for working in the wetland and allow you to make delicate work such as transplanting and clarify. Get also thick gloves are essential to prune, move rocks, shoveling and perform other tasks without demanding hurt your hands. Choose them the right size: small gloves are not too comfortable, oversized gloves will prevent you to manipulate tools and plants accurately.

Wheelbarrow

It is an essential tool for moving plants, rocks, soil, compost, mulch and weeds. Choose a wheelbarrow as robust as requested by your work. Some models have two wheels: they are easier to handle when the ground is uneven. The most expensive are automatic tumble: they can help you avoid painful efforts to ask your travel rock at the top of the mound.

Long handled tools

Here are those that are essential: a shovel or a spade and broom grass. Some gardeners love the hoes, especially when they have a vegetable garden. The smiley can cut straight edges of flowerbeds and the rake is used to level the ground for new flower beds or sections of lawn that need to be sown again.

Hand Tools

There are very many, but most useful are the transplanter for transplanting seedlings or dig up the weeds, hoe to loosen the soil surface and the hoe to pull the tap roots, like those of dandelions. Other hand tools are useful, though not absolutely necessary: the planter to put in the ground bulbs and small plants, the transplanter for annuals and perennials and a small shovel to fill pots and compost bins.

Hand pruners and loppers

They are also called the pruners. Often occur for righties or lefties. It pays to select good quality secateurs, equipped with carbon steel blades and an ergonomic design. Pruning is a demanding job: good blades ensure good cuts. The hand pruner for branches should not exceed 0.5 cm in diameter. For cutting larger branches must go to the lopping: they are robust scissors, can attack the branches do not exceed a diameter of 2.5 cm and usually equipped with a long handle and a mechanism Ratcheting; they cut net without requiring too much effort of the gardener.

Pruning saw

When secateurs and pruners are not enough to cut large branches, we must turn to pruning saws. They have a slightly curved and serrated blade that bites into the branch without folding or tearing the wood. Folding pruning saws are compact, easy to store and transport safely because the blade enters the handle, like a knife.

Watering can or hose nozzle

Even if you want at any price to save water, you’ll need sooner or later a hose or watering can, especially for plants in pots and pans and the ones you just put in full earth. A good watering should be easy to carry, hold and use. Many come with an apple that is screwed onto the spout and the fountain turns into a shower that falls as rain on seedlings and tender plants. The hydrants are logging onto the pipes. They distribute water according to different types of jets and allow water containers, pots and flower beds quickly and smoothly.