Does anyone know the best gardening tools to buy? Trying to start a garden halfway decent, it is whether a particular type of gardening gloves is better than any old glove? What is a root-extractor above for weeding? I think I do not know what a professional gardener who use as their "hammer and nails," if that makes sense. Any green thumbs there care to share?
I continue to 1400 sq.ft. perennials and rose garden, and my top 10 items are:
1. My gardening gloves that have high breathability are a little less to be tight, waterproof rubber on the underside of the fingers, and double leather palms. Another advantage is that they are pink and have bright red plastic "nails" on top of the fingertips. Too bad.
2. My absolute favorite gardening tool is a knife Japanese gardening. It showed a large wooden handle and the blade is about 7 "long and 2 inches wide. One side is jagged, but it does not cut the plants as well. It DOES seen through the soil and packed mound perennial (if you want to share it) really well. This knife is amazing for weeding, dandelion root in particular. I use to loosen the soil packaged. I got mine from a store called Lee Valley here in Canada.
3. My second favorite tool is a pair of scissors garden spring to about 5 "total length, and I use it for any deadheading. Blades lock closed, and they slip into a pocket. Also from Lee Valley .
4. And loops of my pants, canvas garden with pockets everywhere and a couple of hammer. Pleated at the waist front and wide legs, you can do yoga in them and they are not binding. Roses will not scratch through them. Also from Lee Valley.
5. My surgeon brush ... put some soap on the baby and he gets the dirt on your hands and underneath your fingernails like nothing else, without tearing the skin. Cost almost nothing. From ... Yeah, this is the place.
6. A trowel is very broad. Large containers for planting, digging, moving soil around. NO Lee Valley!
7. My rod of water ... sprinkler head on a stem of 3 ', attaches to your hose, and provides water to the maximum with minimum trauma to tender young plants. Ideal for small garden areas where a sprinkler covers an area too large for containers, and especially for hanging containers. Available everywhere. You can also obtain a nutrient containing mixer / screw line between the hose and wand, and mixture of water and fertilizer, and you can fertilize your potted plants while you water.
8. My hoe Ozarks (do not know what it's really called) ... It is a major tool, as a shovel is a full size. It has a long narrow hoe on one side and a prong to two fingers of the other side. Ideal for weeding a large area where the weeds are coming like crazy and the floor is packed. Also great for every day just grow. NO Lee Valley!
9. A plain old bucket ... took, as it comes "feels" right. Available from my garage, but I'm not letting go of it.
10. Assorted plastic buckets. An old bucket of a gallon of ice cream with a handful of momentum deadheading and weeding as I move around the garden. And a 3 gallon bucket, also with handle, for shipments of super-weed (common with 1400 square feet), cleaning sharp drop dead material, and for transporting large quantities of peat moss from my garage for my tender cut back hybrid tea roses that I have covered during the winter or they will die (it's western Canada for you).
Posted on May 21, 2010.
