Equipment For The Gardener - Make Your Life Easier And Save Time With The Right Tools
If you don’t have a tool shed or room where you can keep your tools, as well as insecticides, fertilizers, stakes, paint, wire and other equipment a well-prepared gardener should have, arrange to make some space available in your garage, or build a locker in a corner of your breezeway or carport. As another option a tool shed could be added lean-to fashion to your garage or exterior wall.
There are basic tools everybody needs, including a metal shank spade or, even better, the easier-to-handle and extremely useful spading fork, and the small, handy planting shovel.
Then, so you will have them when you need them, carry your steel shank hand trowel, hand fork and hand cultivator in a hand box, bucket or basket,. An iron or bow rake is another fundamental, of course, and so is a broom rake. A weed spud for hand removal of weeds is another favorite instrument, and a good pair of shears or hand pruners is indispensable. Other musts include your garden hose, watering can and wheelbarrow.
Not as vital but certainly useful are an edging sickle, lawn edger or grass-edging shears; pole-pruning shears, hedge shears and lopping shears. Also, a deep cultivator such as a potato hoe; a dibble for seedlings; a stapling gun; a pruning saw and soil sieves. For your hose, its nice to have a reel and possibly a portable sprinkler. A wand for soaking the soil without getting water on the leaves is another valuable attachment.
The following may be luxuries, but they will help you do a professional job: a pressure sprayer, wheel hoe and cultivator, root feeder, spreader, soil-testing kit, garden tractor and lawn sweeper, or mechanical garden mower with mulching attachment, power rotary tiller, and, finally, an electric hotbed.
Power machines are certainly bringing about changes in gardening. For example, the mulching-mower allows you to mow the lawn in the usual way.
Grass and leaves are cut into small fragments and deposited beneath or to one side of the machine, where they sift down among the grass leaves and form a light, protective layer of mulch. This decomposes after a while, adding to the organic fertility of the lawn.
Other equipment to have on hand that will help keep you from running to the store just when you want to be out working on the grounds, includes: garden line; a yardstick, a measuring cup and spoons, plant ties, stakes, labels; burlap or canvas, chicken wire, sand, peat moss, lime, plant foods, insecticides and other chemicals and, finally, you may want to have some pots and flats handy.
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