Having the right tools is essential for outdoor upkeep, planting, and tending to your garden and lawn. From power tools for bigger tasks to hand tools for your most delicate garden beds, there is a range of tools that you might want to add to your collection. Some essential ones include:
• Hand trowel
• Rake
• Garden tiller
• Digging shovel
• Edging spade
• Leaf rake
• Garden hose
• Wheelbarrow
• Pruner/scissors
These tools all have specific uses, whether digging and moving soil, removing debris and leaves, cutting and trimming plants of different sizes, and more. To get more help choosing, read our guide on How to Choose the Right Gardening Tools.
What types of lawn and garden tools are there?
There are a variety of lawn tools for different tasks, such as digging, edging, lawn care, planting, pruning, and watering. Depending on the type of gardening you’re doing, you’ll want to choose your tools wisely. Here is an example of some of the types of tools in each category you can choose from.
• Digging: While trowels are perfect for digging holes for planting, square shovels are more suitable for more intense digging jobs, like digging tightly packed dirt.
• Edging: Wheel edgers are manually operated tools that are often used along garden beds and paths. On the other hand, edging knives are ideal for smaller spaces that traditional edgers wouldn’t fit into.
• Lawn Care: Lawn mowers and leaf blowers are essential to keeping your lawn clear of debris and trimmed and healthy. Having a sprinkler or hose will be useful when you need to water your grass.
• Planting: A bulb planter can remove the need to use a trowel and make planting a lot faster and easier. A seeder makes the process easy when seeding individual pots for plants.
• Pruning: There are a variety of sizes of pruners that work to cut branches of different thicknesses. While hedge shears are large and can quickly shape and trim shrubs, pole pruners can reach branches high up in the air.
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