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Garden Tools - Selection, Usage and Cleaning Tips

Posted Apr-23-08 23:03:10 PDT
It doesn’t need to become a professional gardener for purchasing garden tools for your favorite garden. But you should know your requirements before you make a purchase. Your garden type mostly varies on the kind of soil, weather and design. You can check the List of Garden Types from Wikipedia.org for more information. That article will give you a comprehensive idea on various types of gardens. So far as selecting of garden tools are concerned, you should start from purchasing basic garden tools, like: Bow Rake, Garden Shears, Hoes, Shovels, Spading Forks and Watering Cans. Before purchase, let’s ensure the use and feel of these garden tools*.

  • Bow Rake:
    • An instrument with long handle and a row of projecting teeth at its head , specifically used for gathering leaves or smoothening earth.
  • Garden Shears:
    • A large pair of scissors with strong blades and two long handle strongly attached to the blades. This is basically used for prunning and clipping trees and and hedges.
  • Hoes:
    • Hoe is quite similar to rake, but has flat blade attached to the end of a long handle. A hoe is used for weeding.
  • Shovels:
    • Shovel is used for moving things like snow, soil and digging earth. It too has a long handle and a wide blade or scoop facing opposite to the handle.
  • Spading Forks:
    • A broad-tined fork, useful for digging into sod, for harvesting potatoes or root crops, or for mixing amendments into the soil.
  • Watering Cans:
    • Watering cans are quite known to everybody. A long pipe attached to a cane especially used for watering the plants in a garden.

Selecting garden tools values, too. Before planting, you need to prepare your garden properly. You need to prepare the soil; you need to dig the holes, you need to make passages to all plants’ root from your main water supply ; and need to connect those water channels. Bow rake certainly helps you getting such kinds of jobs done properly. A hoe is useful in mixing the soil layers, weeding and plowing the surface of your garden. After sowing seeds or planting small plants, you need to water them. So you should select a watering can with a long nozzle. This helps you cover wide area while watering you small plants.  You you are planning to plants shurbs or trees, then you should go for a shovle with round-ended blade. Then your bow rake will help you leveling the weeded soil. Once your plants frow up, use the shears to prun them.

You need to take care of your garden tools properly. Each time you use your garden tools, you hsould clean up. This ensures longivity of your garden tools. And each season you are not expected to purchase brand new garden tools as your carelessness would damage your garden tools. This also stops spreading diseases, fungi, insect eggs and weed seeds in your garden.

[*: All garden tools’ descriptions are either copied or modified from Answers.com]
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