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Pruning Bushes In The Backyard
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You Can’t Have a Garden
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The best time to buy hand tools for your garden is just before you need them.
If you’ve done your homework, you now know what kind of gardening you’re going to start. Are you planning to till the soil? Or are you planning to pull the weeds or plant some tulip bulbs?
Garden planning will determine what kind of tools should be in your garden shed or tool shop. The best mixture is a little bit of all kinds: small, medium, large; light and heavy.
If you do organic gardening, I recommend a pitchfork, shovel, and rake as basics. A pitchfork allow you to easily turn compost into rich fertile side dressing for your plants.
Snippers allows you to keep your flower plants and bushes manicured for optimal beauty and functionality because snipping encourages new growth.
A hand trowel will dig the right size holes for planting seedlings, plus a hand trowel will gently lift young plants from one location to another.
A wheelbarrow or lawn cart is a must for every gardener. You never know what you’ll be hauling around: manure, bedding plants, bags of fertilizer, etc. Some gardening items are extremely heavy, while others require volume and can eliminate repetitious steps between the shed and the garden plot.
And, of course, every gardener needs gardening gloves to protect hands from dirt and minor cuts.
Get all your gardening tools in one place!
If you have wide open spaces, building your own compost pile can be fun, with no limitations. But, if you have a smaller space, or concerned about aesthetics, take a look at the Mantis composter: