Hello World! Welcome Friends! Over winter, you might have been nurturing a desire to spend more time outdoors, getting your little patch of green and pleasant land into shape. A well-maintained garden can be a source of pride, tranquillity, and even produce.
But if you’re going to get good results in your garden, then you’ll need to be able to call upon a few quality tools. Let’s take a look at a few of the more important ones, which every gardener should have access to.
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Personal Protective Equipment
There is a range of hazards and dangers out in the garden, and it’s worth protecting yourself against them. Tree surgery and hedge-trimming, for instance, can produce a lot of dust and stray chips.
You might protect yourself with wearing personal protective equipment like goggles or a facemask. Equally, there are more chronic threats to contend with. You’ll need quality gardening gloves if you want your hands to remain in good condition, as well as knee-protectors if you’re spending most of your time hunched over vegetable patches and flowerbeds.
Wheelbarrow
The larger your garden, the more important that your wheelbarrow becomes. If you have to transport bundles of compost or paving-slabs by hand, then you might find that you’re exhausted by the time that you actually need to start work.
Gardening Hose
A hose is an essential tool if you want to keep everything alive. It’s much quicker to use than a watering can if you want to just give everything in your garden a ten-second spray. As time goes on, you might replace the hose with a watering system – which in most cases is just a long hose with a lot of holes poked into it.
Rake
Rakes comes in several different forms. There are the wiry kind that you’ll use for collecting fallen leaves during autumn; then there are the bow-rakes which are great for spreading mulch. The latter is the better choice overall, as it’ll be able to do the former’s job in a pinch.
Spade
The spade is arguably the most versatile and important item in the tool-shed. With its help, you can create holes which can become flowerbeds, raised planters, or patios. You might, in fact, have several different kinds of shovel available. If you’re planting things, then you might use a trowel; if you need to shovel snow, coal or sand, then you might go for different shovels for each task.
Fork
A fork is great for getting into compacted dirt. The impact will be spread across the points of your fork, meaning more pressure-per-square inch than you’d get with a spade. Will save you huge amounts of straining, grunting, and aching.
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