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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Crucial Gardening Tools For An Excellent Garden

By Harriet Domingo Xavier


Since people first learned to grow and harvest plants for food, different types of gardening tools have been used in an effort to make the task simpler. In fact, some designs for tools are so simple and effective that it is hard to improve on them. The garden tools you may need should be chosen to suit the size of your garden and how well you're able to access the beds. You should still be able to create a great garden even with the simplest of standard tools. Of course you will need to till or break up the soil, dig and perform general maintenance. If you are not so familiar with what is available, then that can be easily remedied. This article will look at some common garden tools in more detail and discuss whether these will suit your needs.

The regular old lawn rake isn't always associated as being helpful with other aspects of gardening. Yet they're often far more useful than just using them to rake up leaves from a lawn. Lawn rakes may also be available under different names that include ground rake or garden rake. Clearing fallen leaves from out of your garden beds is easy throughout the fall with a garden rake. But rakes can also be used to level the top layer of any soil in garden beds you've prepared prior to planting new seedlings. Rakes can be large or small, plastic or metal, so you'll find one that suits your needs. There are also rakes available with very narrow heads that are perfect for clearing away leaf litter from between delicate plants.

Some species of garden plants need pruning, which you will be required to do as part of your long term maintenance routine for your garden. If they have been pruned properly and on time, some bigger plants like rose bushes tend to do much better.

While it might be a bit quicker to water the whole garden with the hose, it's not always the best idea. Some plants are very delicate and may be damaged with the water pressure from a hose. So for the smaller plants you should use the simple watering can, and they work just great. You may not be able to reach your plants using a can, so consider getting the proper attachments for your hose as an alternative. You will also need to be able to throttle the water pressure to avoid damage. There is a wide range of garden hose attachments available, as well as an assortment of different shapes and sizes for watering cans.

A garden can definitely benefit from some of the things done in your yard work. The day will come when the wind blows leaves into your garden, and you will be glad that you have a leaf rake. During the fall, with the blowing leaves, many people have shut their garden work down. Anything that is left undone in the fall will have to be done in the spring, when it may be harder to do. To keep your garden clean during the year, your leaf rake is a valuable tool. The wind can blow leaves, and debris into your garden, so you will want to remove them before that happens. Gardening with the right tools is important, so make sure you have a leaf rake.

We believe that owning great quality gardening tools is critical, which is why we often recommend that inferior tools be replaced. If your toolbox consists of poorly constructed tools, it might be an idea to replace them with stronger pieces that will last you a lot longer. You will find that your life is a lot easier and you are more efficient once you do so.

To acquire the most out of your do it yourself undertaking, you're going to need to keep track of everything you do. This is easy when you employ a notebook that is dedicated to tracking your home improvement progress. Just be sure you backup your hard drive often, so you don't lose any essential data.




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