Choosing Gardening Tools
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Article by: Philip Swindells There are many tools , A Teak Table - Accent Your Outdoor Decor With One that are available to gardeners. Indeed the range can be quite confusing to the newcomer to the hobby who may be uncertain about which tools , Let Life and Energy Flow from the Garden are needed to perform given tasks. Hand tools , The Secret to Pruning Apple Trees are very important for both garden , Using Plants To Make Us Happier creation and subsequent maintenance. However, the spade, fork, hoe and rake are the most important. Few gardens , Spring ing Tips can function successfully without all of these. Spades are essential for digging, for planting and for removing various materials such as soil , Starting a Shade Garden... and sand , Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months in Your Garden around the garden. , Like Fall Flowers - A Tip To Care For Your Winter Pond They are available in varying lengths and weights, some being lightweight and especially designed for ladies. There are two main kinds of spade, the digging spade and the border variety. The latter is narrow-bladed, light , Choosing a Pond Liner – EPDM liners are the optimal choice in weight and used for general maintenance and planting purposes, while the digging spade is a robust tool , Teak Furniture: The Premier Outdoor Furniture which is intended for turning over raw garden , Wood Fences soil during fall , Cat Repellent or How to Keep Cats Out of Your Garden and winter. , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio Garden forks come in similar variety, there being both border and digging kinds. The border fork is mostly used for pricking over the soil , Like Fall Flowers - A Tip To Care For Your Winter Garden Pond amongst plants. , Like Fall Flowers - A Tip To Care For Your Winter Garden Pond The digging variety can perform a similar function to the digging spade except that it provides only a complete inversion of the soil, , Iris - Species and Care whereas the spade can be used for both trenching and double digging as well. Hoes come in a number of configurations and are used to knock down the lumpy soils , Teak Patio Furniture Will Dress Up Your Patio created by the spade and fork. They are also used for cultivating between plants , Care of Dendrobium Orchids and rows of plants , Cat Repellent or How to Keep Cats Out of Your Garden as well as for taking out seed , About Crocuses drills. The Dutch hoe is a flat-bladed tool , How to Grow Cucumbers that is used solely for cultivating while the swan neck hoe is excellent for taking out seed , Rose Gardening: Water, Sun and Shade drills as well as mounding-up potatoes. Rakes are usually solid tined and made of metal. , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? They put the finishing touches to soil , Wild Flower Garden - Plan to Plant preparation before seed , A Teak Table - Accent Your Outdoor Decor With One sowing. Spring-tined rakes and wooden landscape , 3 Easy Steps to Growing Plants from Seed rakes are mostly used for raking up cut grass , How To Divide Bulbs For Bigger Gardens and fallen leaves, although the spring-tined variety is tough enough to be used as a scarifier. A dummy rake, which consists of a flat , Teak Furniture: The Premier Outdoor Furniture board on edge that replaces the tines of a wooden landscape , Spring Wild Flowers rake is used for grading soil, , Teak Garden Furniture: A Natural Extension of the Home especially during lawn , Teak Furniture: The Premier Outdoor Furniture preparation. Apart from spades, forks, rakes and hoes, most gardeners require a number of smaller complementary hand tools. , Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months in Your Garden For planting small plants , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? a trowel is necessary. This is like a much-reduced version of a spade but with a blade, which is curved and bowed. While the trowel may be regarded as the diminutive version of the border spade, the hand fork is the equivalent of the border fork. It is used in confined spaces, such as the rock garden, , Five Quick Tips to Get Your Kids ing for pricking over the soil , Teak Patio Furniture Will Dress Up Your Patio amongst plants. , Spring Wild Flowers Onion hoes are like large swan-neck hoes in shape but much reduced and with very short handles. They originated in Europe and were first intended, as the name suggests, for using amongst commercial onion crops, not only cleaning the rows of weeds, , About Crocuses but also removing crowded plants. , Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt Now they are utilized for all hoeing tasks where a larger hoe is difficult to manoeuvre. Secateurs and loppers are essential in the majority of gardens. , Spring ing Tips Secateurs are well-balanced hand cutters which are used in pruning , Tulips: Anything But Typical and for cutting back herbaceous plants. , Five Quick Tips to Get Your Kids Gardening It is always worthwhile buying a high quality pair so that they not only last for a long time, but also do a good clean job of cutting. For left-handed people it is possible to buy left-handed secateurs and there is also a design , Five Quick Tips to Get Your Kids Gardening with rolling handles, which are easier for gardeners who have a weak grip to use. Loppers are enlarged versions of secateurs used two-handed. They do all the same things that secateurs do, but on larger branches. They are usually straight bladed, but there are versions with curved blades that are popularly referred to as parrot bills. To complete the array of tools , Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm necessary for pruning, , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio there are special small hand saws with narrow blades and coarse teeth that are especially designed for pruning. , How To Divide Bulbs For Bigger Gardens There are many mechanically operated tools , Choosing a Pond Liner – EPDM liners are the optimal choice for the garden, , Soil, Drainage, and Water but the lawnmower , Spring Gardening Tips and rotavator are probably the most commonly used. Hedge , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio trimmers are also important along with shredders , Cat Repellent or How to Keep Cats Out of Your Garden and chippers. Lawn mowers , Iris - Species and Care are available in two basic kinds, the cylinder mower , African Violet Care and the rotary type. Both are well suited to specific jobs. Cylinder lawnmowers , Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months in Your Garden are used on fine decorative lawns. , A Teak Table - Accent Your Outdoor Decor With One The more blades the cylinder has, the finer the cut, those mowers , Like Fall Flowers - A Tip To Care For Your Winter Garden Pond used for very fine lawns , Wood Furniture for the Outdoors: Durable, Dependable, and Pleasing to the Eye having as many as sixteen blades. Rotary mowers , How to Grow Cucumbers on the other hand can do a good job of cutting a domestic lawn , The Hosta – A Shade Loving Perennial in a backyard, , Teak Patio Furniture Will Dress Up Your Patio but with adjustment can be used for much longer grass , Rose Gardening: Water, Sun and Shade than might be thought conventional. They are available both electrically and petrol driven. Rotavators cultivate the soil , , Drainage, and Water with a series of fast rotating slashing blades, sometimes on a spindle, occasionally on a drum. They are very effective at creating a tilth on sandy or medium loam soils, , Enhance Your Walk-Through Garden with Wind Chimes but on clay soils , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? can often produce a polished pan beneath the surface at a spade's depth, thereby creating drainage and rooting problems. Most models are driven by petrol engines. With both mowers , Let Life and Energy Flow from the Garden and rotavators it is wise to have a demonstration in the garden , Soil, Drainage, and Water before purchasing. Not all are as good as they at first might appear and they really should be tested under realistic conditions. Hedge trimmers are available powered by a small petrol engine or by electricity. , Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt Most of the modern brands are excellent value being of very light , Choosing a Pond Liner – EPDM liners are the optimal choice weight and in the case of electrical models having built in safety , Start Planning for Your Backyard Water Garden or Pond cut-out facilities. They have various cutter bar lengths, the size chosen depending very much upon the configuration of the hedge , Spring Gardening Tips or topiary to be trimmed. Shredders , Let Life and Energy Flow from the Garden are available as both petrol and electrical models. These shred garden , Teak Furniture: A Natural Extension of the Home waste prior to composting. Chippers on the other hand pulverize woody material and are best hired in rather than purchased. Finally we have the most useful and probably most used tool , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio in the garden , Planting Flower Bulbs for Springtime Blooms - the wheelbarrow. A builder's wheelbarrow is far better than any garden , How To Divide Bulbs For Bigger s wheelbarrow, unless you are not strong enough to wheel it when fully laden. Modern garden , A Teak Bench: The Perfect Complement To Any Outdoor Space wheelbarrows are fine for pushing a few weeds , Starting a Shade Garden... around in, but the builder's wheelbarrow is what is necessary for moving soil, , Choosing a Pond Liner – EPDM liners are the optimal choice rocks or paving. If you decide upon a standard garden , Room Boundaries... wheelbarrow, then choose one of the models with two wheels. These are more stable and resilient than the traditional one wheeled kind. Generally avoid the kind of wheelbarrow where a ball replaces the wheel, unless you garden , Build A Simple Planter Box on very wet, heavy clay soil. , Rose Gardening: Water, Sun and Shade They are not very efficient and most gardeners find them quite tiring to use.  |
  
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