Gardening Equipment
Nearly every gardener has some type of gardening
equipment. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to have a garden without
used gardening equipment. What kind of gardening equipment you use
will obviously depend on the size and extent of your garden, what
you are able to handle, if you want to spend a lot of time in your
garden or get done quickly, and finally, how much money you are
willing to spend.
While many gardeners do not have expensive or high-tech gardening
tools, all of them have some type of gardening equipment for
cultivating. Tools for cultivating can include both hand held tools
and power tools. What kind you buy depends on how serious of a
gardener you are. Hand tools include your everyday items like
shovels, spading forks, rakes, trowels, and diggers. These can all
be used to get a garden ready for planting and are relatively easy
and do not require much strength to use. Other tools include a wheel
cultivator, pickax, and mattock.
While power tools are a little more expensive than hand tools, they
really cut down on the hard labor. The most essential piece of
gardening equipment is undoubtedly the tiller. The tiller will break
up the ground and get it ready for planting, chop up any debris, and
help mix in fertilizer and compost. If you don’t want to spend the
money on a tiller you can hire someone or rent a tiller for one time
use. Other power tools that are very popular include chippers,
garden shredders, and chain-saws.
If you have shrubs, hedges, or small trees in your yard, pruning
tools are a vital piece of gardening equipment. Pruning shears are
good for branches about ¾” in diameter, while lopping shears can
handle branches from a half inch up to about 2 inches. Pole pruners
are on a pole and can reach branches about 15 feet above ground.
Hedge shears and pruning saws are both larger, more heavy duty
pruning tools for the serious gardener.
Since your plants must be watered in order to survive, and lets face
it, it doesn’t rain whenever we want it to, gardening equipment for
watering is a must have. The one thing you can’t get along without
is a water hose, everything after that is optional. Many gardeners
use sprinklers or s drip irrigation hose. There are even timers you
can purchase for sprinklers or drip hoses, if you are willing to
drop the extra cash.
Gardening without gardening equipment would be a nightmare. Sure
there are some people who enjoy getting a little dirty while they
plant their flowers, but even those types of people have the most
basic of gardening tools, like a rake or a hoe. Gardening equipment
is a part of gardening, as important as the dirt and the seeds.
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